(translated via translate.google.com) 4 Women’s colleges engaged the first time in the universities and colleges in Saudi Arabia 3 round sports activities and sports in the Olympics for the first cultural universities and higher education institutions in the region of Mecca in the period from March 31 until April 7, hosted by King Abdulaziz University. [...]

Riyadh: About 38 per cent of Saudis using Facebook are women, according to a researcher working in the media field. Fawzia Al Shadadi said there are 231,000 Saudis using the social networking website as of December 2009. “More women are turning to social networking. There is a growing trend among Saudi young women to have [...]

Riyadh – (Youth): A Saudi city located northwest of the capital Riyadh decided to prevent the sale of cigarettes and its derivatives in the shops. The head of the Municipal Council and Municipal of Aluayina and Aljabila Mohammed bin Saad Al-Moammar that the municipal council approved the banning of sales of cigarettes and their derivatives [...]

University student Munira bint Abdul Rahman Al-Mehri wins the «Golden Palme » award at the first scientific conference for students in higher education for a new genre of painting in Saudi «Pop Art», where she is the first Saudi  to storm this area. Munira Muhri decribes Pop Art style as critical of our lifestyle, noting [...]

Dr. “Samia bint Mohammed Abdurahman Alamoudi” the first Saudi female doctor holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University, where she was among the first batch of Saudi women doctors who graduated from the university, and then went to work for Kmaidp in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology [...]

(Huffington Post) When a leading figure in the Saudi advertising sector told me last summer that the Saudi Religious Police approached him for ‘corporate re-branding’ suggestions, I couldn’t help but brush away the idea as nonsense. I wrongfully assumed that the ‘Haya’t al Amr Bil Ma’rouf wa Al Nahi an Al Munkar’ (The Committee of [...]

(AFP) Two years after Wajiha Al-Huwaidar defied a Saudi ban on women driving by posting a video on the Internet showing her cruising in a remote area, she still dreams of getting behind the wheel like her other Gulf sisters. Huwaidar’s brazen act on International Women’s Day 2008 was a symbolic gesture in the ultra-conservative [...]

DUBAI – More than three in five Saudis support a minimum age for marriage for women, according to a survey that comes as nuptials between barely teen girls and men old enough to be their great grandfathers have caught the world’s attention. But 28 percent of 887 respondents in the survey by pollster YouGovSiraj said [...]

March 2 (Bloomberg) — Saudi author Abdo Khal won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for “She Throws Sparks as Big as Castles,” a satirical novel about a poor young man who goes to work for a wealthy businessman and becomes embroiled in his palace intrigues. Khal was awarded the $50,000 prize during a ceremony [...]

Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, Emir of Riyadh, studies a scale model of the Al-Dhuheira district of the capital as envisaged in plans to be carried out by Tameer Company. Khaled Bin Abdullah Al-Dughaithir of Tameer explained how the central Riyadh district would be transformed into a socioeconomic hub of 7,000 inhabitants boasting top class [...]