Her Story Made History: Madeha al-Ajroush
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Lyse Doucet travels to Saudi Arabia to meet Madeha al-Ajroush, who battled for 30 years to get women the right to drive. It is a battle she has now won, as women in the kingdom will legally be allowed to drive later this year. As a Saudi woman, she says, "you’ll always be treated like a child and never like an adult. And that was a problem, and it continued till this day - but things are opening up now."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the BBC World Service and welcome to the latest edition of the |
| 0:05.0 | documentary podcast. Every week we bring you a range of stories from our |
| 0:09.8 | presenters and reporters across the world. |
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| 0:18.1 | Let us know what you think. |
| 0:19.3 | 1990 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
| 0:28.0 | We were about 47 girls with about 11 cards and we drove around and around in one of the main streets about 4 o'clock. |
| 0:40.0 | And then suddenly we were stopped by the police, the police was really bewildered, |
| 0:45.0 | didn't know what to make out of us. |
| 0:47.0 | At the beginning he thought we were Kuwaiti women fleeing away from Kuwait and we said no we're Saudi women waiting to be arrested |
| 0:56.7 | and making a point. That was beyond him. He could not understand what we |
| 1:01.8 | are saying. |
| 1:04.0 | Young women took to the streets for the first time to make a point. |
| 1:08.6 | That Saudi women should be allowed to drive, |
| 1:11.3 | just like women everywhere else in the world. My name is |
| 1:15.4 | Madijah al-A-Lagruh. I live in Riyadh. I'm a mother of two children, two girls. |
| 1:21.6 | Also I'm a photographer and I'm a psychotherapist by profession and education. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm also a social activist and I tend to voice my opinion when it comes to issues of women. |
| 1:36.0 | Madilla's story is part of a campaign for women's rights which came to symbolize decades of struggle within an ultra-conservative Muslim society. |
| 1:46.7 | It led to a rare victory for activists in this absolute monarchy. |
| 1:51.1 | I'm Lee's Doucette, and this is the second episode of Her Story Made History, the BBC |
| 1:56.8 | World Service series exploring how women made history in their own countries. |
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