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'They took me to jail'
The cosmopolitan Saudi woman
Nothing excites such fervent debate among Saudi intellectuals and activists, and divides them more clearly. Touch it and risk getting burned. The prohibition on women driving is the element that gets the most attention in the United States, and it is certainly an important element of the debate in Saudi Arabia itself. King Abdallah has approached the third rail, but in a very cautious manner.
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Yasser Jamal, who was also the head of the center for sex correction at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, said about 93 percent of the operations were performed during the childhood. He said the correction operations among adults were 7 percent, adding that the majority of the cases were women wanting to become men. Jamal said the sex correction operations were allowed under the Shariah but changing the sex based on personal whims was strictly prohibited.
Long forbidden, dating has arrived in the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom with some Saudis meeting and marrying without the help of relatives. Well-heeled millennials meet via Tinder, Snapchat, Twitter and Instagram. The pair finally met in person in Egypt, where gender mixing is more accepted than in Saudi Arabia, long dominated by a puritanical form of Islam that has been challenged recently by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's push toward a more moderate interpretation of the religion. Because sex and romantic love remain highly controversial subjects in the kingdom, interviewees spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity, and pseudonyms have been used.