6/21/2023 0 Comments Daring to drive by manal al sharif![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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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