While all Saudi women are still under the guardianship of a male family member — usually a husband or father — the first Saudi domestic violence ad marks progress for the Kingdom's women.

Get ready to claw your way through your computer screen, because we've got what you've all been waiting for.

Yeah, you read the headline right. A group of men was deported from Saudi Arabia to the United Arab Emirates because their chiseled features and perfectly coifed hair was deemed "too handsome." The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices was reported to have feared that female visitors of the…

Yay! Bitches can ride motorcycles in Saudi Arabia now, because the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has lifted the ban on women driving motorcycles and bikes. The new religious laws allow for women to ride these two-wheelers in parks and "recreational areas," but still requires them to wear a full, head-to-toe abaya while doing…

Last year saw Saudi Arabia sending two female athletes to the Olympics for the first time in their conservative Islamic history.

Saudi Arabian former computer security consultant Manal al-Sharif, arguably the most public face of those who oppose the Saudi female driving ban, got behind the wheel of a car in May of 2011 when she realized that nobody was taking action against the ban. al-Sharif's friend filmed that drive with an iPhone, put it on …

In a video apparently dating back to last year, a Saudi cleric offered viewers a brief glimpse into his fetid imagination when he called for baby girls to be fully covered. With burkas. To prevent sexual molestation. Go ahead, take a moment to wonder whether or not you've wandered into a bad episode of Farscape. Now,…

Women in Saudi Arabia still can't drive, travel without permission from a male guardian, or vote (they'll get to do the latter next year), but now they can sit on the consultative Shura Council. In a special lady-only area, that is.

Say you're a 90-year-old man and your wife is well into her 80s. Say you're not satisfied with the level of carnal passion between the two of you, and so you decide to take a new wife. And by take a new wife, I mean buy a 15-year-old from her father. Well, then you'd be shit out of luck, because your bride is gone and…

When Saudi Arabia's public education system-issued textbooks are in the news, it's usually because impressionable young readers are learning how to cut off a thief's hands and feet under Sharia law or that homosexuals should be "put to death."