A Saudi woman rides 1,400 kilometers on a bicycle through Iceland.
A Saudi woman rides 1,400 kilometers on a bicycle through Iceland. Source arabnews.com RIYADH: Yasmine Idriss spoke with Arab News earlier this year right before departing on a once-in-a-lifetime bicycle tour around Iceland's Ring Road. She is now the first Arab woman to finish the arduous journey. She first believed that her nearly 1,400-kilometer journey would provide her with the opportunity to strategize her next professional step. She had no idea that cycling would lead to a far greater state of enlightenment. The entire journey she took—from fierce gusts to peaceful solitude—was documented for the 2024 documentary "Threshold.""In the movie, I talk extensively about what this meant to me and what the 'heroine's journey' entails. A woman experiencing the hero's journey is not the sole embodiment of the heroine's journey. It has a lot more surrender ingrained