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Daring to Drive : A gripping account of one woman's home-grown courage that will speak to the fighter in all of us, EPUB eBook

Daring to Drive : A gripping account of one woman's home-grown courage that will speak to the fighter in all of us EPUB

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THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED CHANGE WITH HER CALL FOR GREATER FREEDOMS FOR WOMEN.

?THE GUARDIAN:MANAL AL-SHARIF BECAME A GLOBAL FIGUREHEAD OF A CAUSE THAT DREW THE ATTENTION OF GLOBAL LEADERS WHO URGED THE [SAUDI] KINGDOM TO OVERTURN THE BAN ON WOMEN DRIVING.

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 worldDeborah 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 washaram: 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. ManalsWomen2Drivecampaign inspired other women to take action. Manal has been lauded by the Oslo Freedom Forum, described byTime Magazineas one of the most 100 most influential people in the world, and she was awarded theVclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent.

Daring to Drive is an account of Manal al-Sharif's fight for equality in an unequal society. A visceral coming-of-age tale, itis also a celebration of resilience, the power of education and the strength of female solidarity in the face of hardship.

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