Restaurants in Saudi Arabia are currently segregated into a ‘family’ section for those accompanied by women and a ‘singles’ area for men, though many have quietly taken down the barriers in recent years amid the kingdom’s sweeping liberalisation drive. — AFP pic
Eateries have long required one entrance for single men and another for women and families, in a country where the once-powerful religious police zealously enforced sex segregation in public places for decades. The latest reform was hailed by young Saudis but dismissed by arch-conservatives on social media, with one Twitter user saying it went “against sharia”, or Islamic law.
Prince Mohammed has clipped the powers of hardline clerics as he pursues a modernisation drive that has allowed mixed-gender music concerts and ended decades-long bans on cinemas and women drivers.
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