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Afroditi Xydi, Contributor Afroditi Xydi (MBA ’22) shares her experience working and being a woman in the Middle East. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. June 24, 2018. I walked into my client’s office and the CEO gathered us all for an important announcement: women in the country now had the right to drive. When he asked how many women had driven into the office, two out of the 10 women in the room raised their hands. They were proud of this important milestone but simultaneously frustrated that it had taken so long. There I was, with my hair down wearing a light gray abaya a long over-garment worn over clothes by women in the Middle East , thinking that even though I could not completely relate I had a similar sentiment. I had spent a year working in Saudi Arabia and by that point felt fully integrated, but the journey had not been without its bumps. ....