Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening by Manal al-Sharif
English | June 13th, 2017 | ISBN: 1476793042 | 304 Pages | EPUB | 1.86 MB
English | June 13th, 2017 | ISBN: 1476793042 | 304 Pages | EPUB | 1.86 MB
A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women’s right to drive.
Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold. In her adolescence, she was a religious radical, burning her brother’s Backstreet Boys CDs in the oven because music was haram: forbidden by Islamic law. But what a difference an education can make. By her twenties she was a computer security engineer, one of few women working in a desert compound that resembled suburban America. That’s when the Saudi kingdom’s contradictions became too much to bear: she was labeled a slut for chatting with male colleagues, her teenage brother chaperoned her on a business trip, and while she kept a car in her garage, she was forbidden from driving down city streets behind the wheel.
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