Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening

by Manal Al-Sharif

Book Overview

A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive. Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold. In her adolescence, she was a religious radical, melting her brother's boy band cassettes in the oven because music was haram : forbidden by Islamic law. But what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476793026
• ISBN13: 9781476793023
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.0"