However, for Rahaf, returning home only meant one thing: her death. Intending to seek asylum in Australia, she boarded a plane to Bangkok, only to be stopped and detained by Thai authorities – acting on the instructions of Saudi officials – to be sent home.
The breathtaking memoir follows Rahaf Mohammed, who in 2019 at 18 years old, decided to free herself from Saudi Arabia’s oppressive and stifling treatment of women by escaping from her family as they holidayed in Kuwait. REBEL by Rahaf Mohammed is the latest one to be added to that very special list. And the third, and perhaps the most important, is that they have an unyielding capacity to inspire change.Īnd, while many books come and go, once and a while, you’ll come across one that so intrinsically captures literature’s ability to do all of those three things. The second, is that they make us better people. Whenever someone – more specifically, the high school students I used to teach – ask me why we need books, I usually answer in one of three ways. So much so, that most of my career and personal life has been spent talking about them. From the guardianship system, which places unmarried women under the full control of their male relatives, to the secretive online underground network of Saudi runaways plotting their escape, Rebel is a gripping memoir of resistance and bravery by a woman determined to tell the truth about life in the closed kingdom.I’ve spent most of my life being stuck in a permanent state of awe whenever I think about books. Now Rahaf tells her remarkable story for the first time and reveals the dystopian reality of what life is like for women within Saudi Arabia. This was Rahaf's chance at a new life, the one she had dreamed of. Her account gained forty-five thousand followers overnight and offered her a vital lifeline.
As men pounded on her door, the teenager decided to reach out to the world on Twitter – and the world answered. It was a trick, and soon she found herself trapped, barricaded in a hotel room. But the eighteen-year-old only made it as far as Bangkok before her passport was taken away. If caught, she was sure she would be killed, like other rebel women who had tried to flee her country's oppressive regime. In early 2019, after more than a year of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed boarded a plane and finally escaped from Saudi Arabia. The striking image of a young woman, wielding nothing but a cellphone, facing down the force of an oppressive government is an apt metaphor for this fraught moment in Saudi Arabia's history.'THE WASHINGTON POST A gripping true story of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from Saudi Arabia captivated the world. 'Through her courageous resistance, she has, for a moment, drawn global attention to the ongoing struggle of Saudi women.
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