Daring to drive book6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Her memoir is a remarkable celebration of resilience in the face of tyranny, the extraordinary power of education and female solidarity, and the difficulties, absurdities, and joys of making your voice heard. Writing on the cusp of history, Manal offers a rare glimpse into the lives of women in Saudi Arabia today. Daring to Drive: A gripping account of one womans home-grown courage that will speak to the fighter in all of us : Al-Sharif, Manal: Amazon. 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.ĭaring to Drive is the fiercely intimate memoir of an accidental activist, a powerfully vivid story of a young Muslim woman who stood up to a kingdom of men-and won. By her twenties she was a computer security engineer, one of few women working in a desert compound that resembled suburban America. 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. But what a difference an education can make. In her adolescence, she was a religious radical, melting her brother’s boy band cassettes in the oven because music was haram: forbidden by Islamic law. Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold. 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. ![]()
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