Ameerah Al-Taweel: Right to drive

Ameerah Al-Taweel – the former wife of Alwaleed Bin Talal – has been back in the papers calling for women to be allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. She has often said that she drives when overseas, and her public stance and appearances in western media have at times raised eyebrows from the ruling elite back home. “I don’t believe the ban will go on indefinitely,” she told Britain’s MailOnline in late November. “It will be like the decree calling for 20% of parliament to be made up of women – a surprising development, but one which happened very rapidly…