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Daring to Drive
A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
ISBN: 9781476793023
Pages: 304
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As a devout Saudi girl, Manal al-Sharif gladly adhered to the strictures of her culture. Her mother, who believed in education, guided al-Sharif to go to college and become a computer scientist. Sharing warm scenes of family life, the author also discusses ways she challenged traditional boundaries. Working for Aramco as the only woman in IT security, she found that a lone woman couldn’t rent an apartment. After a divorce and a year-long US exchange program, she joined a social media group calling for Saudi women to drive. When she drove, the government jailed her. As she recounts in this inspiring saga, other Saudi Arabian women also defied the ban, and they won the right to drive in 2018.
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About the Author
Women’s rights activist Manal al-Sharif became Saudi Arabia’s first woman computer security specialist and went to jail for driving a car while female.
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