Daring to drive : a Saudi woman's awakening / Manal al-Sharif.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017]Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: x, 289 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781476793023
- 1476793026
- Sharif, Manal, 1979-
- Women -- Saudi Arabia -- Biography
- Women political activists -- Biography
- Women automobile drivers -- Saudi Arabia -- Biography
- Women political activists -- Saudi Arabia -- Biography
- Women -- Saudi Arabia -- Biography
- Frau
- Soziale Stellung
- Politisches Handeln
- Autofahren
- Saudi-Arabien
- 320.082/09538 23
- HQ1730.Z75 S47 2017
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Harrison Memorial Library BIOGRAPHY | Adult Nonfiction | BIO SHARIF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31624003823671 |
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 starts with a single drop.
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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