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Defensive driving

The founder of the Saudi Women’s Right to Drive Movement discusses the price she pays over the fight to get behind the wheel.

Ban on Saudi women driving
Photo by: Reuters
Manal al-Sharif, the 33-yearold Saudi woman who sparked a nationwide demonstration last June over the right of women to drive in Saudi Arabia, has unwittingly become the face of the women’s driving movement.

She was arrested and jailed, and lost a plum job at Aramco and the house that came with it. Although she frequently faces death threats, nothing has stopped Sharif from realizing the goal of many Saudi women: to have the right to drive a car.

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