Saudi Majdoleen Mohammed Alateeq, a newly-licensed Saudi driver, gets out of her car drives her car next to a poster of the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Saudi capital Riyadh, on June 24, 2018.
Saudi Arabia ended its longstanding ban on women driving on June 24, 2018 — and the second the clock struck midnight, women across the country started their engines. / AFP PHOTO / Fayez Nureldine
Saudi woman Sabika Habib gets ready to drive her car through the streets of Khobar City on her way to Kingdom of Bahrain. For the first time little after midnight the law allow women to drive on June 24, 2018.
Saudi Arabia will allow women to drive from June 24, ending the world’s only ban on female motorists, a historic reform marred by what rights groups call an expanding crackdown on activists. The move, which follows a sweeping crackdown on women activists who long opposed the ban, is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s wide-ranging reform drive to modernise the conservative petrostate.
/ AFP PHOTO / HUSSAIN RADWAN
Hala Hussein Alireza, a newly-licensed Saudi motorist, drives a car on a main road in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah early on June 24, 2018.
Saudi Arabia ended its longstanding ban on women driving on June 24, 2018 — and the second the clock struck midnight, women across the country started their engines. / AFP PHOTO / Amer HILABI
Saudi woman Sabika Habib drives her car through the streets of Khobar City on her way to Kingdom of Bahrain. For the first time little after midnight the law allow women to drive on June 24, 2018.
Saudi Arabia will allow women to drive from June 24, ending the world’s only ban on female motorists, a historic reform marred by what rights groups call an expanding crackdown on activists. The move, which follows a sweeping crackdown on women activists who long opposed the ban, is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s wide-ranging reform drive to modernise the conservative petrostate.
/ AFP PHOTO / HUSSAIN RADWAN
Saudi Samira Al-Ghamdi is seen in her car with family driving at food court in the coastal city of Jeddah for the first time. Little after midnight the law allows women to drive on June 24, 2018.
Saudi Arabia will allow women to drive from June 24, ending the world’s only ban on female motorists, a historic reform marred by what rights groups call an expanding crackdown on activists. The move, which follows a sweeping crackdown on women activists who long opposed the ban, is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s wide-ranging reform drive to modernise the conservative petrostate.
/ AFP PHOTO / AMER HILABI
A Saudi woman and her friends celebrate her first time driving on a main street of Khobar City on her way to Kingdom of Bahrain on June 24, 2018.
Saudi Arabia will allow women to drive from June 24, ending the world’s only ban on female motorists, a historic reform marred by what rights groups call an expanding crackdown on activists. The move, which follows a sweeping crackdown on women activists who long opposed the ban, is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s wide-ranging reform drive to modernise the conservative petrostate.
/ AFP PHOTO / HUSSAIN RADWAN
A Saudi woman and her friends celebrate her first time driving on a main street of Khobar City on her way to Kingdom of Bahrain on June 24, 2018.
Saudi Arabia will allow women to drive from June 24, ending the world’s only ban on female motorists, a historic reform marred by what rights groups call an expanding crackdown on activists. The move, which follows a sweeping crackdown on women activists who long opposed the ban, is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s wide-ranging reform drive to modernise the conservative petrostate.
/ AFP PHOTO / HUSSAIN RADWAN
Daniah al-Ghalbi, a newly-licensed Saudi woman driver, walks away from her car in a garage in the coastal Red Sea city of Jeddah on June 23, 2018, a day before the lifting of a ban on women driving in the conservative Arab kingdom.
Saudi Arabia will allow women to drive from June 24, ending the world’s only ban on female motorists, a historic reform marred by what rights groups call an expanding crackdown on activists. / AFP PHOTO / Amer HILABI
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY NATACH YAZBECK. Saudi national and newly licensed Reem Farahat, an employee of Careem, a chauffeur car booking service, prepares for a customer shuttle using her car in the Saudi capital Riyadh, on June 24, 2018.
Both the global behemoth Uber and Careem, a massively popular ride-hailing app in the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and Pakistan, announced they would be training women to drive for their services in Saudi Arabia shortly after King Salman announced the end of a longstanding ban in September. On Sunday, June 24, when the king’s decree took effect, nearly one dozen “captainahs” — all Saudi Arabian women — were ready to pick up riders with Careem. / AFP PHOTO / FAYEZ NURELDINE
Daniah al-Ghalbi, a newly-licensed Saudi woman driver, sits in her car during a test-drive in the coastal Red Sea city of Jeddah on June 23, 2018, a day before the lifting of a ban on women driving in the conservative Arab kingdom.
Saudi Arabia will allow women to drive from June 24, ending the world’s only ban on female motorists, a historic reform marred by what rights groups call an expanding crackdown on activists. / AFP PHOTO / Amer HILABI
Newly-licensed Saudi woman driver, sits in her car during a test-drive in the coastal Red Sea city of Jeddah on June 23, 2018, a day before the lifting of a ban on women driving in the conservative Arab kingdom. Saudi Arabia will allow women to drive from June 24, ending the world’s only ban on female motorists, a historic reform marred by what rights groups call an expanding crackdown on activists.
Amer HILABI / AFP
