In another piece of articles translated by MEMRI, they point to the campaign by Saudi feminist Wajeha Al-Huwaidar to get Saudi women behind the driver’s wheel. The piece notes her founding a new organization to mobilize Saudi women toward that goal. Interesting.

Saudi Feminist Wajeha Al-Huwaidar Launches New Campaign: Let Us Drive Cars

On September 4, 2007, the liberal Arab website Aafaq published a statement from the newly established League of Demanders of Women’s Right to Drive Cars in Saudi Arabia, asking women to sign a message demanding that women be given the right to drive. The league plans to deliver the message to King ‘Abdallah on Saudi Arabia’s national holiday, September 23.

Among the founders of the League are women’s rights activist Wajeha Al-Huwaidar, and Fawzia Al-Uyyouni, the wife of prominent reformist and former political prisoner ‘Ali Domaini. [1]

The following is the text of the appeal: [2]
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