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This report presents a rare insight into a society largely hidden from the outside world an insight into the life of women in saudi arabia. We meet women who are fighting for their rights secretly silently and courageously. No longer willing to be banished from public life theyre now challenging traditional constraints. Their goal to emerge from the shadow of their male compatriots. Its a life behind the veil a life in black even in jeddah the city on the red sea the most liberal place in the country saudi women are forced into a straight jacket of restrictions they can only be seen in public wearing a full length of maya they are now allowed to drive a car but they still cant travel work or attend University Without the permission of a male guardian. Hid behind the veil resentment is growing. Women are increasingly treading new kinds as they turn against fundamentalist dog was a challenge for the strictly conservative saudi kingdom. Women are pushing back the systems boundaries and ev

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