Edited by Dawn Wood
The Ministry of Labor has closed 13 shops in a Riyadh mall for failing to hire Saudi women.
The closure is part of the ministry’s campaign that started on Monday July 15th, to enforce the feminization of all clothing stores for women in the country. This [...]
By Danah Garii, Lara Al Juhani and Dawn Wood
Bisat Al-Reeh is Ramadan’s biggest charity bazaar that gathers people together to celebrate fashion, style, food and other trinkets, whilst raising money for different charity organizations in the process. It is also a primary opportunity for local designers to showcase their products upon a [...]
A name that when typed across an article can be expected to be critically honest and well-versed in the fashion world: Marriam Mosalli, is definitely a role model for all women in Saudi. The founder of Niche Arabia, Marriam, is our personality of the month for a number of reasons and I’ll tell you [...]
While the abaya has become synonymous with everyday life within the Middle East, it continues to be debated outside the region. In the West, the perception of it has continuously oscillated between rejection of the garment as a tool for the suppression of women, to uninhibited fascination of the traditional garb, seen to possess [...]
By Marriam N Mossalli
Marriam Mossalli first collaboration with Hamzah Tarzan 2008-09
I love being Saudi. If you’re Saudi and well, breathe, chances are you will at some point in your life have the honor of becoming a “first.” And if you have two X chromosomes, you’ll not only be labeled a “first,” but [...]
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