Daring To Drive. A Gripping Account Of One Woman's Home-grown Courage That Will Speak To The Fighter In All Of Us

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 304 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A visceral coming-of-age tale from the young woman who dared to stand up to a kingdom of men. Best known for her campaign work for womens rights, including the Women2Drive campaign, this is Manal al-Sharifs fiercely intimate memoir. Future generations will marvel at Manal al-Sharif. Her gripping account of homegrown courage will speak to the fighter in all of us. Books like this one can change the world Deborah Feldman, New York Times bestselling author of Unorthodox Manal al-Sharif is following in a long tradition of women activists around the world who have put themselves on the line to expose and challenge discriminatory laws and policies Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International News Manal al-Sharif was born in Mecca the year fundamentalism took hold in Saudi Arabia. As a young girl she would burn her brothers boy band CDs in the oven because music was haram: forbidden by Islamic law. By her twenties she was a computer security engineer. But as she became older, the unequal way in which women are treated became too much to bear: she was branded a slut for talking to male colleagues at work; her school-age brother had to chaperone her on business trips and, while she kept a car in her garage, she was forbidden from driving down Saudi streets. Her personal rebellion began the day she got behind the wheel of a car: an act that ultimately led to her arrest and imprisonment. Manals Women2Drive campaign inspired other women to take action. Manal has been lauded by the Oslo Freedom Forum, described by Time Magazine as one of the most 100 most influential people in the world, and she was awarded the Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent. Daring to Drive is an account of Manal al-Sharifs fight for equality in an unequal society. It is also a celebration of resilience, the power of education and the strength of female solidarity in the face of hardship.

ISBN: 9781471164392