![]() ![]() Throughout there are powerful anecdotes of the limitations inflicted on Saudi women, despite much-trumpeted steps forward.Īt the most banal, Mohammed is not allowed to sit without her legs crossed, but there are moments of real peril for those who do not conform. ![]() The only freedom she enjoys is via the internet, where she finds a group of women who help plan her escape. Rebel not only traces her dramatic flight but also gives an eyewitness account of the life she needed to leave so desperately.įrom an early age Mohammed, the daughter of a city governor and the first of his three wives, is baffled and frustrated by the restrictions she lives under – forced to cover up in a voluminous abaya and hijab, never allowed to swim or ride a bike or go out without a male relative. At times it’s hard to remember that Rahaf Mohammed (above) was only 18 when the vivid events in her memoir Rebel occurred ![]()
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