Author: Gabriela Keseberg Dávalos

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Some of the Saudi women who are going to be the country's first women lawyers and their professors at Dar Al-Hekma college, Saudi Arabia (photo: picture-alliance/dpa)

Woman in Saudi Arabia

''A Golden Age for Saudi Women''

Gabriela Keseberg Dávalos recently visited Saudi Arabia on a UN fellowship. What she encountered there surprised her and completely changed her views on the lives of women in the kingdom. This is a personal account of her experiencesMore

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