![]() There was not one reference to the gender of the driver. Then, slowly, I began to reread each world, aloud. ![]() ![]() That night, I fed my son dinner and put him to bed, and I sat down at my computer. One of them is the rule against women drivers, which Manal learns from a male colleague is actually merely a custom and not law: The opening chapter describing the author’s arrest for the heinous crime of ‘driving while female’ immediately pushes the reader into conservative Saudi Arabian society with its many unwritten codes. When my brother asked them who they were, there was silence. They had no uniforms, nothing to identify them. In the shadowy darkness, all we could see were men, crowding around my front stoop, pressing forward. Like when secret service men turn up at her doorstep in the middle of the night and insist she accompany them to the Dhahran police station: Saudi activist Manal Al Sharif photographed in Dubai on October 22, 2013.(AFP) There are moments in Manal al-Sharif’s Daring to Drive that are truly frightening. ![]()
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