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Two years later she has signed an contract extension at Jeddah-based Al-Ittihad and wants to challenge preconceived notions from the western world about Saudi Arabia and what life is like for a female athlete.

Here’s what a leading robotics expert thinks about these notions: “Believing that this will happen any time within decades is pure fantasy thinking.”

“It’s about oppression and control, particularly of women and girls, and who is ‘feminine enough’ to live by these outdated and toxic notions.”

The experience impressed two things upon Mahan: a need for accountability and the importance of voters’ lived experience, as opposed to vague promises, abstract notions and politically fashionable statements.

“What you’re seeing is these notions of pain that we are getting out of us in these songs,” Wilkinson explains.