Nationality and naturalization laws are often ambiguous in Kuwait, specifically for the children of Kuwaiti mothers and foreign or bidun (stateless) fathers.
Amaani Yahya might not be the first Yemeni woman to rap, but she is one of the first to use the artform to try to reach people outside Yemen.
This post is part of a series examining women’s labor force participation in the Gulf Arab states, including areas of growth and challenges facing women in the Gulf.
On June 24, Saudi women will be allowed to drive for the first time in the kingdom. Yet many of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent women activists are unlikely to be among them.
As GCC countries start to increase women’s participation in manufacturing, there is a growing concern whether this will be a sustainable economic diversification strategy.
Saudi Arabia has recently announced decisions allowing women to apply for jobs in air traffic control, the traffic police, and the military, and to positions as investigators at the public prosecutor’s office. These decisions are made in line with Saudi Vision 2030, to increase women’s participation in the workforce from 22 to 30 percent.
For many conservative people in the Gulf Arab states, practicing medicine as a woman is still unacceptable.
Globally, computer science and information technology majors in universities are dominated by men. However, in the Middle East, 40 percent of university students specializing in computer science and IT are women.
The royal decree permitting women to drive in Saudi Arabia has focused attention on the social advances of women in the kingdom.
While Bisklayta has been celebrated for encouraging women’s cycling in public, it still faces hurdles, both institutional and personal.
One of Oman’s most acclaimed fashion designers, Amal Al Raisi, stumbled upon design after shopping for a wedding dress.
This paper is an overview of the women’s campaign against the male guardianship system in Saudi Arabia and a window into the new landscape of media activism.
A key feature of Saudi exceptionalism has fallen: the ban on women driving in the kingdom. This marks the culmination of decades of social change and political activism on the part of a small but growing vanguard of Saudi women.
Arwa Al Neaimi's work “Never Never Land” was exhibited in an Edge of Arabia group exhibition featuring Gulf artists in 2014.
In the past few years, women have been increasingly assuming leadership positions in public and private sectors of Saudi Arabia.
This paper examines the impact of inadequate health education and preventative health measures on women’s reproductive and sexual health care as well as mental health care.
Altitude sickness, frostbite, and severe weather conditions are just a few of the obstacles climbers have to overcome en route to the summit of Mount Everest. Women from the Gulf have endured all of that, in addition to challenging conservative norms at home.
The year 2016 witnessed a dramatic economic transformation in Saudi Arabia that triggered unprecedented political changes.
No visitor to Qatar, or any other Gulf country, would fail to miss that women’s flowing outer garments, known as abayas, are almost unexceptionally black.
This paper examines women’s integration in the labor force in the Gulf Arab states, paying special attention to differences in public and private sector employment, and national and migrant female labor participation.
This paper examines personal status law in the six Gulf Arab states, and the limitations PSLs impose on women’s autonomy and the role of women within the family.
When Hala Abdullah started the Riyadh Writing Club with her best friend, Mashael Alblehed, in 2009, they had in mind an easy way to meet and get inspired by other writers.
Women of the ruling families of Arab Gulf states are well situated to lead or impede significant change for women in their societies.
In November 2015 in Seoul, Korea, 50 women from around the world, including the United Arab Emirates, gathered at the International Women’s Democracy Network at the eighth World Movement for Democracy Assembly.
Abolish 153 is an awareness campaign started by a small group of women in Kuwait to eradicate domestic violence in the country.
Personal status laws in the Gulf Cooperation Council states regulate and impact women’s rights in every domain: education, work, freedom of movement, marriage or divorce, children, and access to resources within or outside the family.
A New Development In a recent development, the Saudi Civil Status Department started issuing divorced or widowed women family registry cards.
On December 12, 2015, Saudi Arabia held its third round of municipal elections.
In a national workforce largely composed of men and foreign workers, can economic reform ensure women's participation?
On December 17, AGSIW hosted a panel discussion on the December 12 municipal elections in Saudi Arabia, the first in which women were included as voters and as candidates.
This is a week of small victories for women in the Gulf.
True water security in the Gulf involves finding a balance between water security and tradeoffs with other goals.
Learn MoreThe ongoing negotiation process between the United States and Iran will be complex and volatile – while some of the most central issues might be soluble, sanctions issues might prove intractable.
Global demand forecasts by leading agencies have diverged sharply, reflecting a deepening sense of uncertainty about the future path of the global economy.
Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia has the potential not only to reinforce the deep-rooted U.S.-Saudi alliance but also to expose the fault lines that could undermine future cooperation.
Through its careful examination of the forces shaping the evolution of Gulf societies and the new generation of emerging leaders, AGSIW facilitates a richer understanding of the role the countries in this key geostrategic region can be expected to play in the 21st century.
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