How a Princess Can Help Saudi Women Find Their Voice

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For Saudi women, the shortest route from the back seat to the driver's seat is looking them in the face: the opinion section of a media outlet. Saudi women, among the most suppressed in the world, must discover that public voice is public power.

Certainly, Saudi women are challenging the status quo – whether protesting the ban on driving or lobbying for their right to practice law. Indeed, last week 30 Saudi women were appointed to the kingdom's Shura Council, the first official political positions for women in the country's history. But it is the kingdom's religious clerics who have corralled the forms of opinion-making – staking their claim in traditional and social media.

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