Cycling in Jeddah: Saudi Women Embrace Change

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Amirah al-Turkistani, a graphic design lecturer at Jeddah International College, plays with her husband and children at Middle Corniche Park in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, January 27, 2018. REUTERS/Reem Baeshen

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Amirah al-Turkistani, a graphic design lecturer at Jeddah International College, plays basketball during the Rajana Ayamona festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, February 1, 2018. REUTERS/Reem Baeshen

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Amirah al-Turkistani, a graphic design lecturer at Jeddah International College, works at her home office in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, October 23, 2017. Fluent in English, Arabic and Turkish and trained in ballet, Amirah is part of a young generation of Saudi women seizing new opportunities in spite of a guardianship system that still requires women to have a male relative's approval for certain key decisions like travelling abroad. REUTERS/Reem Baeshen

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Amirah al-Turkistani, a graphic design lecturer at Jeddah University, sits at her favourite coffee shop in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, October 20, 2017. REUTERS/Reem Baeshen

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Amirah al-Turkistani, a graphic design lecturer at Jeddah University, takes a selfie in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, January 15, 2018. Riding in public was unthinkable at the time in the deeply conservative Muslim kingdom, where religious police patrolled public spaces to enforce modest dress, bans on music and alcohol, prayer-time store closures and the mixing of unrelated men and women. REUTERS/Reem Baeshen

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Amirah al-Turkistani, a graphic design lecturer at Jeddah International College, rides her bicycle in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, November 7, 2017. Saudi Arabia, which for decades seemed irreparably stuck in the past, is now changing by the day. REUTERS/Reem Baeshen

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