Her high heels clacking on marble tiles, a defiant Saudi woman turned heads and drew gasps as she strutted through a Riyadh mall – without a body-shrouding abaya. The billowy over-garment, usually all ...

Saudi woman Mashael al-Jaloud has stopped wearing the robe She remains defiant but is forced to wear abaya and headscarf to work Abaya is also mandatory for non-Muslim women in the kingdom Her high ...