"We have the largest art museum in the Gulf region, " says Manal Ataya, the director of the government's Museums Department.

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Manal al-Sharif was born in the holy city of Mecca to a family of "conservative" but "regular Muslims, " as she puts it.

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Manal, a wife and mother, says she enjoys spending time and money at one of Riyadh's most expensive shopping malls, the Mamlaka.

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They wrote her name on the shroud, Nuha al Manal.

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The movement was sparked by the arrest that year of Manal al-Sharif, a Saudi technology consultant and mother who was detained for nine days for driving her own car.

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Insofar as there is a plot, it centers on a gloomy fellow, played by Suleiman himself, who has a harassed father (Nayef Fahoum Daher) and a disarmingly beautiful beloved (Manal Khader).

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The women's rights activist Manal al-Sharif has launched a Twitter campaign using the hashtag "Ana Lama" (Arabic for "I am Lama") to demand legislation criminalising violence against women or children, the BBC's Sebastian Usher reports.

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It already broke through the steel gates of the Kingdom back in May when a young woman named Manal Al-Sharif launched the now infamous online campaign mobilizing Saudi women to defy the driving ban by getting behind the wheels of their cars.

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