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Rebel : my escape from Saudi Arabia to freedom / Rahaf Mohammed ; as told to Sally Armstrong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mohammed, Rahaf, author.
- Armstrong, Sally, 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mohammed, Rahaf.
- Women--Saudi Arabia--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Muslim women--Refugees--Canada--Biography.
- Muslim women.
- Women's rights--Saudi Arabia.
- Women's rights.
- Sex discrimination against women--Saudi Arabia.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Muslim women--Saudi Arabia--Economic conditions.
- Saudi Arabia--Social conditions.
- Saudi Arabia.
- Muslim women--Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Autobiography.
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 241 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. and Canadian editions.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
- Summary:
- In January 2019, then 18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed escaped from her family while holidaying in Kuwait. She was fleeing systematic abuse of her human rights as a woman growing up in Saudi Arabia and, specifically, her family's threats to kill her because she desired the freedoms Western women take for granted. She boarded a plane bound for Bangkok, en route to Australia where she intended to seek asylum. But on her arrival the Thai authorities, acting on the instructions of Saudi officials, detained Rahaf with the aim of returning her to her family. Knowing this would mean her death, Rahaf barricaded herself in an airport hotel room and appealed for help through social media, creating a Twitter storm and capturing the attention of government leaders, human rights advocates and media around the world. Rahaf was eventually taken under the protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and granted refugee status. When Australian authorities failed to respond with the urgency the situation required, she was granted asylum in Canada. Seven days after her ordeal began, she arrived in Toronto to begin a new life. Rebel is a passionate story by a woman who refused to allow a system to define who she was and what she could be. It shines a light on the rampant and dangerous inequalities that persist in Saudi society, and inspires women everywhere to dream of a better future for themselves, and their daughters.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One On the Run
- ch. Two Girl Child
- ch. Three Holy Orders
- ch. Four Hard Truths
- ch. Five Secret Codes
- ch. Six Escape
- ch. Seven Triumphs and Consequences.
- Notes:
- Map on end papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781443462778
- 1443462772
- 9780063045484
- 0063045486
- OCLC:
- 1286835811
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