Saudi Women Speak Out
The BBC’s award-winning human rights reporter Sue Lloyd-Roberts reports from Saudi Arabia, where custom and religion are keeping women covered up and largely hidden. But behind the scenes Sue finds women pushing for change. She meets one who’s trying to convince the government to give women the right to sell bras in shops. But there are also women campaigning to preserve the status quo – a world where men know what’s best for women.
Photograph Saudi Women, Qatif, 1974 by Anne Prowell
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Sue, I’m honored to find my photograph featured in your series. I was in my 20s when I lived in Saudi, just as the first girls’ schools opened in the Eastern Province. We here in the West were defining the cause of our own gender rights. I am closely following the new Women2Drive movement and am proud of those brave Saudi women who are taking their nation forward with them! PS, I can probably find a better print of this if you need it.
Anne Ranney Prowell
6/7/2011
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