Women Rights in Saudi Arabia

[Name of the institute]Women Rights in Saudi Arabia

Research Question

The aim and objective of this assignment is to perform the source analysisrelated to the following research question that is established as follows:

“Ben on driving car on women restrict their daily progress and to lead their lives in a comfortable and convenient way”.

Selected Sources

In order to perform the source analysis review for the research question that is established above following sources are selected:

Samar Fatany (2007), “Saudi Women Towards A New Era”, Ghainaa Publications

BBC News Magazine. (2012), “Saudi princess: What I'd change about my country”, Retrieved from: www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on: June 1st, 2012

Source Analysis of First Source

The following part of the paper presents the source analysis of the second source that is selected for this paper.

Authority of the Selected Source

The authenticity of the sources that are selected above is very strong. The sources that are selected are from different background and both are of different types. One is famous, worldwide acknowledged news' online magazine, and one is a book.

The first resource that is selected is an individual and comprehensive report which is conducted by Samar Fatany. Samar is a well known personality of Saudi politics. She is the chief director of the English section of the Jeddah broadcasting section. She has done a lot of efforts for the liberation of women in Saudi Arabia. Beside the book that is considered for this paper here there is another book that is published by her with the name of Saudi Perceptions & Western Misconceptions.

Summary of the Source

The book “Saudi Women towards a New Era” covers a number of aspects, problems and conditions that women are confronted with in Saudi Arabia. There are five different sections of the book that cover different facets of women life in Saudi Arabia. The book talks about the role and position of women in society, in media, in business arena and in politics. Through the content of this the writer wants to empower the woman of Saudi Arabia in all the fields that are described above. In this book, the main idea of the author is to suggest the point that now government is taking steps for revitalizing the image of Saudi Arabia when it comes to the rights of women. In this book, Samar also points out the ban of driving on women and difficulties that this ban is creating for women in Saudi Arabia (Samar, 2007).

Response to Key Quotations

The key quotation related to the research question in this book is as follows:

“There are a large number of women who oppose women driving in Saudi Arabia. This stand has caused countless problems both for working and nonworking women. As a result, the ban on driving still holds, even though there is nothing in religion that justifies the ban and literally millions of Saudi riyals get taken out of the economy because of the nation's imagined need for drivers, most of them expatriate workers” (Samar, 2007, 19).

The above quotation of the book shows support ...