Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
“I want full editorial control and full production control; I want to choose my guests and what I am going to say. I want the show to be live. Nobody is going to stop me from speaking.” It’s hard to believe that these were demands of a Saudi Arabian female journalist before she agreed to host a talk show in a country where women are banned from driving and prevented from voting in national elections. But Lubna Hidayat Hussain, 37, is no ordinary woman, as Rosamund de Sybel found out when they met at Trader Vic’s restaurant in Bahrain.
