RIYADH: When Bushra Al-Homoud took her first independent step in 2021, there was no audience waiting to applaud her. There was no stage, no orchestra and no spotlight. There was simply Bushra, standing on her own two feet for the first time in years. It was only one step. But for a woman who had spent seven years in a wheelchair after a virus affected her spinal cord, it meant everything. “I took my first step independently, without anyone supporting me, without a cane and without assistance
