WOMEN OF THE HOLY KINGDOM (Women’s Rights)

Running Time: 42 minutes
 Producer: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and Maiken Baird Reporter: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, Editor: Jay Keuper
 Year: 2005
Aired on: Discovery Times Channel & ABC Australia
In Saudi Arabia, women need permission from their male guardians to study, work and travel. They are also forbidden to drive and to mix with men in public. Now, a growing number of Saudi women are challenging these traditions and are clamoring for more rights, filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy documents the emerging women’s movement. She also interviews religious clerics and young working mothers who denounce change and label the women’s movement as immoral.