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he candidates have to also be careful that their campaign program does not contain anything seditious in 2005 salman al sulayman candidacy was disqualified because his campaign program included his support for lifting the ban on women driving both men and women candidates are not even allowed to include their personal photo in their campaign programs hind al zahid director of eastern region businesswomen center the small number of women voters and nominees is partly due to difficulties in registering including the fact that they will be arrested if they drive their own cars some of these difficulties were eloquently explained in an article by maha akeel other difficulties include the prohibition on civil societies and political assembly civil societies are illegal and saudis who create them face legal consequences for example both waleed abu alkhair and dr mohammed al qahtani are currently serving long prison sentences for starting nongovernmental organizations that promote and advocate human rights women participation in the municipal elections had their own government independent advocates dr hatoon al fassi and fowziya al hani started the baladi initiative to advocate for women participation in the municipal elections in 2010 a year later king abdullah decreed that women will take part in elections the baladi initiative since then has worked on raising awareness about the importance of women participation through lectures workshops and media appearances ْ dr thoraya al obaid shoura councilwoman unfortunately once the elections were coming up these efforts were abruptly stopped by the ministry of municipal affairs the baladi initiative had started workshops for women who planned to run and for potential women campaign managers the workshops were free open to all and planned for all the major cities as soon as the first one began in riyadh the ministry issued a statement that anything pertaining to the elections has to be either run or licensed by the government and since the baladi initiative is non governmental then all of their lectures and activities became now illegal fortunately this did not discourage these bold women since they could not do anything on the ground they took their movement online they do interviews on tv to encourage participation and used social media to get the word out sahar nasief author and activist and her mother many influential women also had their photos at registration taken and posted to encourage other women to do the same some of these leading women s registration photos are included in this post if you click on a photo it will take you to either their twitter profile or an online bio there weren t that many objections to women participation sheikh abdulrahman al barrack issued a fatwa that women s participation is prohibited however this is the same sheikh who issued an earlier fatwa claiming that muslims not adhering to and believing in gender segregation are apostates who should be killed so far no one has been executed he also called soccer the mother of all sins and a jewish conspiracy against muslim yet soccer remains the country s national and by far most popular sport others from the religious establishment took a more politically savvy approach sheikh abdulaziz al fowzan encourages good muslim women to run for seats in case a female quota is implemented this is so deviant and westernized women do not get any seats however if there is no quota then sheikh al fowzan states all devout muslim men and women should vote for men thus no woman gets a council seat three videos came out and were widely shared on social media and whatsapp calling on all morally vigilant men to register for the elections to ensure that no women are voted into the councils the most telling part about these videos is how men and women are represented graphically the men are portrayed singularly and hold their heads high looking straight ahead while the women are covered in groups in profile and with their heads bowed down screenshot of how women and men are portrayed in videos against women participation so far there has been little indication that people are acting upon the religious establishment s advice there were a few minor reports of vandalism at locations for women registrations but nothing serious considering that this is the first time for women to take part and how new saudis are to the whole democratic process it s so far been an auspicious start for the future of political participation in saudi arabia 15 comments filed under uncategorized april 25 2015 6 38 pm saudi heroes saudi heroes was inspired by the original saudi hero dr gazi al qosaibi these lists highlight saudis who take stances or work hard in the unselfish pursuit of the betterment of the saudi people in this sentence you ll find links to the first saudi heroes post the second and the third dr tawfig al rabiah dr al rabiah minister of commerce and industry is famously known as the minister of the people he earned this title by mainly abolishing the usual ceremony that surrounds saudi ministerial positions he rarely wears the black and gold cloak that sheikhs traditionally wear as a status symbol he enters the ministry through the front door instead of using a secret back entrance he even makes a point of taking the stairs so that both ministry employees and the general public can have access to him longer as he enters and leaves his office when he first took office in 2011 he did not make the usual unlikely to ever materialize ten point five years plan announcements we began to feel his presence through the public closures of restaurants for compromised sanitation and violated food regulations then he streamlined consumer complaints and facilitated the public s follow up of complaints he removed the glass windows between the ministry s bureaucrats and the people they are serving overall he s a man who does his job well which is unfortunately unusual in the saudi public service sector waleed abulkhair abulkhair is an independent human rights activist many know him as raif badawi s lawyer he s also the lawyer who fell in love with one of the strongest saudi women i know samar badawi he proposed to her towards the end of the seven months she spent in prison for not obeying her abusive father he s a lawyer who s the first and in many cases the only to defend those who have the government as their plaintiff he founded an independent human rights organization called the saudi arabia monitor of human rights unfortunately since raif s arrest abulkhair has fared worse he is the first in saudi history to be tried and sentenced under the new terrorism law and is currently serving a fifteen years sentence his charges include undermining the regime inflaming public opinion insulting the judiciary harming public order founding an unlicensed organization and violating the anti cybercrime law dr latifah alshaalan الطريق وعر وطويل على المرأة السعودية لكن استمرار النساء في العمل على حقوقهن وتغيير الوعي وتحريك المياه سياتي بنتائج أفضل من اللطم والمناحة لطيفة الشعلان latifahashaalan march 8 2015 al shaalan is one of the first thirty women to be appointed to the shura council national consultative assembly appointments to the shura are lucrative and renewable understandably this leads many on this board to be diplomatic about their views that is not the case with al shaalan she warms my heart with how unlike the majority she will call a spade a spade despite being reprimanded for attempting to discuss the women driving ban she did not shirk from attempting it again she was also outspoken against a recommendation to raise the childbirth rate to bulk up military recruitments another issue she dared to bring up is the revision of the interior ministry s terrorist rehabilitation program she commended the official number of only 12 returning to terrorism after their release however she stated that it should be improved above is a tweet she wrote last women s day it translates to the road is long and treacherous for saudi women but women will continue to work on their rights change perceptions and move the still waters rather than beat themselves up and cry dr ibrahim al modamaigh dr almodamaigh is a fatherly figure even interrogators cannot help but respect his calm and knowledgeable demeanor this patience and wisdom also come across on twitter when most would have been frustrated dr almodamaigh respectfully responds to even trolls he has taken advantage of that platform to educate saudis about their rights some have told me that they cannot form a final opinion on local political topics until they ve seen almodamaigh s position on the issue dr almodamaigh is a harvard doctorate graduate he did not attend his graduation in protest over harvard s position on israel s 1982 attack on lebanon he has a history of taking similar stands he is one of the first signatories of the 1990 civil rights petition demanding the monarchy allow a parliament elected by the people he was appointed to the human rights commission but soon resigned due to its glaring lack of government independence currently he has his law firm he leads the defense of human rights activists charged with establishing government independent human rights groups such as the members of the saudi civil and political rights association acpra he also defended those prosecuted for criticizing a government body such as the three lawyers who were tried for tweeting about the ministry of justice s incompetence and for retweeting a cartoon on the same matter aziza al yousef alyousef is one of the most generous people in saudi arabia she is generous with her time money and hospitality she has hosted lectures on everything from the saudi economy s current situation and future prospects to the life of literary figure abid khazandar she has taken part in all the women driving campaigns since 2011 not only by driving and getting caught but also by supporting other women who do her catering business always prioritized employing saudi women years before it was a national agenda she is bravely outspoken on fighting terrorism through arab nationalism she is the only saudi woman to attend eight sessions of the acpra trials if i were to sum her up in one sentence i would say she is one of those rare human beings who lead by example rather than talk when jamjoom on cnn asked her why she took part in driving movements she replied that we are sick and tired of waiting to be given our rights it s about time we take them essam al zamel al zamel is known as a saudi twitter big fish with thousands of influential followers in the political and business sectors his tweets have weight he is also a fellow blogger his day job is e ntrepreneurship with a focus on online startups however he s on this list for his undying championing of taxing white land only 30 of saudis own their homes everyone else rents meanwhile the rich have a tendency to hoard large undeveloped plots of urban land white land as riskless investments these amassed undeveloped plots lead to land shortages which in turn drive property prices up to discourage this practice al zamel advocated that these plots be taxed since 2011 al zamel has been campaigning and raising awareness by taking part in a movie on the topic and through his social media accounts he has been unrelenting and consistent in a culture with a limited history of political advocacy usually in saudi arabia a person who takes up a cause gives up within a year many in saudi don t realize that governmental changes in most corners of the world require years of campaigning even after the saudi government announced that it will impose a white land tax al zamel did not just celebrate and move on he has since written tirelessly about the implications of how this tax is implemented he is currently working on educating people about the importance of it being high enough to impact the real estate market and that it be imposed indiscriminately on all dr tawfiq al saif al saif is a researcher and writer with a doctorate in political science he s authored books in arabic and english he is a saudi hero because much of what he s said and done for the past few decades is to alleviate sectarianism in saudi al saif is a minority shiite in a country that is considered the center of sunni islam this is a country where without fear of reproach government paid sheikhs can issue statements titled shia sect an evil among the sects of the islamic nation and the greatest enemy and deceivers of the sunni people he spent his teens and early twenties in iran syria and britain as part of an opposition movement for shia rights in saudi however when saddam hussein came calling with offers of funds a radio station and even a plane al saif s movement turned him down they responded that despite their differences with how saudi is governed they are patriots first after the gulf war al saif s movement made peace with the government and returned home without fear of prosecution since then al saif has patiently and consistently raised awareness from within about the plight of the shia minorities while emphasizing the importance of human rights for all he wrote and signed major petitions that called for national reforms not specific to shiites he even had the poise and forbearance to sit through a debate with a mutawa on whether or not shias should enjoy the same rights as sunnis but my personal favorite moment in his interviews is when he is accused of being sectarian himself with his decades of anti sectarian stances he could have vehemently denied it instead he responds that like everyone else he struggles to rid himself of these intolerances aqal al bahili al bahili is a writer and activist whose history goes back decades his wife nora al ghanim writes about him in a book on the 1990 women driving protest after hardly a year of working as an elementary school teacher my family moved to riyadh there i was married off to a former political prisoner aqil al bahili i had always wanted to marry a man who appreciated women and respected their rights and fortunately my wish came true as my husband was a staunch advocate of women s rights none of my family members nor my relatives had any history of or connections to social and political work with the exception of my husband he was imprisoned for political reasons during king faisal s era he was in prison for five years before he was released soon after his release we were married i will never forget my husband s role throughout the turmoil and how he stood by me i would never even have taken part if it were not for my knowledge that he would be there for me with the recent clamp down on any form of criticism or activism al bahili is one of the few who still dares to speak up his tweets his interviews and his call ins on shows are downloaded and shared widely on whatsapp and other more private forums he has an uncanny ability to assess the public mood one of his more bold and compreh...