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Moving Fast and Breaking Things, a Saudi Prince Tests His Public
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As driving ban on women ends, there are ‘elements that resist’
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In social, economic, foreign policy, change is gathering pace
Saudi Arabia Is Ending Its Isolation
The real weight of public opinion in Saudi Arabia lies among its young people, an Internet generation eager for social change. Or at least, so says one member of that cohort.
And Mohammed Bin Salman, the 32-year-old who effectively runs the country in his father’s name, just placed a big bet on his millennial peers. By ending the world’s only ban on women driving cars, the crown prince has upset plenty of people in this Islamic kingdom, founded on a pact between clerics and the royal family. He may be calculating that an even larger number of Saudis are ready to go along for the ride.
