Women at Jeddah's Effat University took their first driving lessons on Wednesday, March 7, ahead of the lifting of the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia.
Women will be legally allowed to drive in June and thousands are signing up to driving schools across the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered a lift on the ban in September, a conservative tradition that has limited women's mobility and has been seen by rights activists as an emblem of their suppression.
The conservative kingdom had been widely criticised for being the only country in the world that bans women from driving.
Women activists had campaigned for more than 25 years to be allowed to drive, defiantly taking to the road, petitioning the king and posting videos of themselves behind the wheel on social media. The protests brought them arrest and harassment.
When the decree lifting the ban was announced by Saudi ambassador to Washington, Prince Khaled bin Salman, who said women would not need permission from their guardians to get a license or have a guardian in the car and would be allowed to drive anywhere in the kingdom, including the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
However women still face a bumpy road in the kingdom, with approval from male guardians needed in the fields of education, employment, marriage, travel plans and medical treatment.
More No Comment
Fire ravages historic factory in St Petersburg
Restaurant owners scuffle with police in Rome lockdown protest
Volcanic eruption and gas from Iceland volcano
Massive fire in historic Saint Petersburg factory
Protesters angry over US police shooting of Black man forcefully dispersed
Pilgrims bathe in the Ganges despite India Covid surge
Opera singer offers home concerts in order to fill the performing void
Russians launch miniature rockets to celebrate Yuri Gagarin
'Chub Rollz' skaters club defies body image stereotypes
Red paint splashing in Yangon to mark bloodshed
Buchenwald & Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps mark 76th anniversary of liberation
Images of Piton de la Fournaise volcano erupting in France's Reunion Island
Ash and smoke rise from La Soufriere volcano on Saint Vincent
Bikini skiing event marks end of the winter season at Sochi.
Protest in Paris metro against "the profiteers" of the pandemic