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Saudi Arabian women

  • Saudi Arabia
    In Saudi Arabia: Transportation and telecommunications

    Women were not permitted to drive for much of Saudi Arabia’s history—until June 2018, when the ban was lifted. The first coast-to-coast road connection, from Al-Dammām on the gulf to Jeddah on the Red Sea, by way of Riyadh, was opened in 1967; it includes a spectacular descent…

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