Teresa Malof moved to Saudi Arabia in 1996 to work in Riyadh. Once there, she married and took a loan to buy a house in an upscale suburb she shared with her now ex-husband Mazen and their three children.
Teresa Malof sought to extricate herself from an almost 18-year marriage. She says she quickly crashed against limits imposed by a sharia-based legal system that has often treated women as second-class citizens.
Her ex-husband insists that Malof is lying and that he partly owns the house because of payments he made to Malof and others. Under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia has sought to change that image. In recent years, the government has overturned its ban on women driving, loosened some restrictions in its guardianship laws and promoted women’s role in the workplace.
The woman added that her own case, regarding the breaking of a guardianship, involved a round-robin-like series of court appearances before different judges. In the past, divorce meant the wife must return to her home country, leave her children behind and see them only if and when her ex-husband allowed it.
After their divorce, he did help her get the special residency, but without citizenship she doesn’t receive benefits afforded to those who have lived and worked in the country for most of their professional lives.
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