Ebook: Daring to drive: a Saudi woman's awakening
Author: Manal al-Sharif
- Tags: Women, Women automobile drivers, Women automobile drivers--Saudi Arabia, Women political activists, Women--Saudi Arabia, Autobiographies, Biographies, Sharif Manal -- 1979-, Women -- Saudi Arabia -- Biography, Women political activists -- Biography, Women automobile drivers -- Saudi Arabia -- Biography, Saudi Arabia
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- City: Saudi Arabia
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster paperback edition
- Language: English
- epub
A country of one king and millions of queens -- Cockroaches and prison bars -- Dirty girls -- Mecca under siege -- Behind the veil -- My Barbie is murdered -- The forbidden satellite dish -- Employed and homeless -- Love and the falafel man -- Live free or die -- Driving while female -- In the kingdom of Saudi men -- Aboya and the king -- The rain begins with a single drop -- Epilogue.;This is a memoir about living, loving, dreaming, daring, and driving while female -- in a country where it's dangerous to do all of the above. 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 religious radical, melting her brother's boy band 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 a few women working in a desert compound built to resemble 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 school-age brother chaperoned her on a business trip, and while she kept a car in her garage, she was forbidden from driving on Saudi streets. Manal-al-Sharif has written a memoir about the making of an accidental activist, a story of a young Muslim woman who stood up to a kingdom of men -- and won. --
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