“Last week marked another historic day for Saudi women, giving them hope for a brighter future for them and their daughters…Next time I travel abroad, I will not have to worry about the travel permission being updated in the Saudi Passport Directorate’s records or at the Saudi borders. I will pack my suitcase knowing that presenting my green passport, as an adult with full Saudi citizenship, will be sufficient…As a Saudi woman, it is exciting to witness a new era of rapid changes that will be referred to in the future as the time when Saudi Arabia started to open up to accepting women as equal partners to men.”
Lulwa Shalhoub, a resident of Jeddah, writes how the change in guardianship laws in Saudi Arabia will affect her life and in an op-ed. [BBC]
