{"id":738,"date":"2017-09-28T14:33:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=738"},"modified":"2017-09-28T14:33:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:33:04","slug":"driving-in-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2017\/09\/28\/driving-in-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"driving in arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"vdoContainer\" class=\"video-container\">\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\" class=\"article-body\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/saudi-arabia.html\" target=\"_self\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>\u00a0is the only country in the world where women are banned from getting behind the wheel of a car, but not for much longer &#8211; nine months to be exact.<\/p>\n<p>King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud\u00a0is allowing women to legally drive for the first time from next June.<\/p>\n<p>The royal decree removes a cornerstone of Saudi conservatism.<\/p>\n<p>Some conservative voices are accusing the leadership of &#8220;bending the verses of Sharia&#8221;, while human rights activists are delighted that Saudi women are finally being allowed to do something that is entirely normal everywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>But will the royal go-ahead accelerate existing tensions in the kingdom? And is it a major step towards gender equality in the male-dominated society?<\/p>\n<p>This is a major push for rights in the middle east, this is with out a doubt a result from pushes by western civil rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>By Max KinCannon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u00a0is the only country in the world where women are banned from getting behind the wheel of a car, but not for much longer &#8211; nine months to be exact. King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud\u00a0is allowing women to legally drive for the first time from next June. The royal decree removes a cornerstone of Saudi conservatism. Some conservative&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2017\/09\/28\/driving-in-arabia\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}