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In a recent book on women’s rights in the Middle East and North Africa, one contributor, who analyzed Saudi Arabia, concluded that nation “remains a country without the basic freedoms necessary for civil society to take root.” Eleanor Abdella Doumato chronicled the Saudi prohibition on political parties, the lack of free speech, restrictions on the media, religion and assembly, the illegality of trade unions and the severe restrictions on women’s rights.