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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Simon & Schuster
ISBN13:
9781476793030
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A vital, inspiring book (O, The Oprah Magazine): a ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of the courageous movement that won Saudi women the right to drive. Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year strict fundamentalism took hold. In her adolescence, she was a religious radical, melting her brothers boy band cassettes in the oven because music was haram: forbidden by Islamic law. But what a difference an education can make. By her twenties Manal was a computer security engineer, one of few women working in a desert compound built to resemble suburban America. Thats when the Saudi kingdoms contradictions became too much to bear: she was labeled a slut for chatting with male colleagues, her school-age brother chaperoned her on a business trip, and while she kept a car in the garage, she was forbidden from driving on Saudi streets. Manal al-Sharifs memoir is an eye-opening (The Christian Science Monitor) account of the making of an accidental activist, a vivid story of a young Muslim woman who stood up to a kingdom of menand won. Daring to Drive is a brave, extraordinary, heartbreakingly personal (Associated Press) celebration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a testament to how women in Muslim countries are helping change their culture, one step at a time (New York Journal of Books).
- | Author: Manal al-Sharif
- | Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- | Publication Date: June 12, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 320 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1476793034
- | ISBN-13: 9781476793030
- Author:
- Manal al-Sharif
- Publisher:
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date:
- June 12, 2018
- Number of pages:
- 320 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1476793034
- ISBN-13:
- 9781476793030