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September 26, 2011

Saudi Arabia to Give Women Right to Vote in 2015 Elections 
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Saudi Arabia's king has announced women would be given the right to vote
and stand in the 2015 elections, but they will not be allowed to vote in
next week's election. The king did not announce any plan to lift other
restrictions on women. Fawziyya Abu-Khalid is a Saudi poet and
sociologist who teaches at King Saud University.

Fawziyya Abu-Khalid, King Saud University: "I think there is a
realization by different groups, including conservative group in Saudi
Arabia, that what happened in the past that they are the only voice in
the society, this is not going to continue and that they have to admit
and to live that there are other voices and there are other views."



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