Loud and Brave: Saudi Women Set to Protest Driving Ban

If you asked Rotana Tarabzouni in 2011 about the protests to end Saudi Arabia's ban on female drivers, she would have cynically called the cause hopeless.

Now, two years after the first campaign, the Saudi-raised, California-based singer is optimistic that change is coming to her home country

On Saturday, women in Saudi Arabia will get behind the wheel and take to the streets — an act of defiance against the country's policies blocking female drivers. While there's no formal law banning women from driving, the conservative nation's unwillingness to grant licenses to female applicants has become a de facto way of barring women from legally operating cars Read more...