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Saudi salesman Majd had just begun his wedding preparations when his fiancee sought to enshrine in their marriage contract a condition already guaranteed by law - her right to drive.
Such legally binding contracts typically codify anything from the woman's right to have her own house, hire a maid, or to study or work.
But after the kingdom last year lifted a decades-long ban on female motorists, a popular new condition in the contracts is the right to own and drive a car, according to documents seen by AFP and interviews with wedding clerics.
Majd, 29, who is due to marry this month in his native Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia, signed off on two demands from his 21-year-old fiancee - the right to drive and to work after marriage, according to the contract he shared.
"She said she (would) like to be independent," explained Majd, who requested his last name be withheld as the discussion was a private family matter. "I replied: 'sure, why not?'"
Overturning the world's only ban on women drivers is the most palpable social change in the kingdom, which is pursuing a wide-ranging liberalisation drive.
To drive, women do not require the explicit approval of their male "guardians" - husbands, fathers and other male relatives, whose permission is needed by women to study, get married and even leave prison.
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