The boys wore jeans and T-shirts girls like me wore a jalabiya, which is a long, shapeless dress that covers your whole body. Good girls learn to take care of a house for a husband they wear hijabs to show that they are good. But she would only say, “If you’re a girl, you behave like a girl. I asked her why older girls and women wore hijabs. When I was seven, I asked my mother why I couldn’t play outside. Now she has written a book Rebel, which explains why she was so desperate to escape, and what it was like growing up as a woman in Saudi Arabia. Happily for Mohammed (she dropped her family name of al-Qunun), Canada soon offered her asylum. Her face was beamed around the world her story covered by television networks and newspapers, who framed her plight as the ultimate escape from Saudi Arabia’s repressive regime. Within hours, the hashtag #SaveRahaf was trending, and by the end of the day her Twitter following had jumped from 24 followers to 27,000. I’m now in real danger because the Saudi embassy is trying to force me to return,” she posted in Arabic. Fast running out of options, she picked up her phone and started tweeting.
However, at Bangkok airport she was detained by officials. It was January 2019 and the Saudi teenager had been on holiday with her family in Kuwait when she slipped away, intent on flying to Australia and claiming asylum. Moving from Rahaf's early days on the underground online network of Saudi runaways, who use coded entries to learn how to flee the brutalities of their homeland, to her solo escape to Canada, Rebel is a breathtaking and life-affirming memoir about one woman's tenacious pursuit of freedom.Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun was just 18 when she captured the world’s attention. Raised with immense financial privilege but under the control of her male relatives-including her high-profile politician father-she endured an abusive childhood in which oppression and deceit were the norm. Now Rahaf Mohammed tells her remarkable story in her own words, revealing untold truths about life in the closed kingdom, where young women are brought up in a repressive system that puts them under the legal control of a male guardian. The teenager reached out to the world, and the world answered-she gained 45,000 followers in one day, and those followers helped her seek asylum in the West. As men pounded at the door of her barricaded hotel room, she opened a Twitter account. If forced to return home, she was sure she would be killed, like other rebel women in her country. In early 2019, after three years of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed finally escaped her abusive family in Saudi Arabia-but made it only to Bangkok before being stripped of her passport. A gripping memoir of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from her abusive family and an oppressive culture in Saudi Arabia captivated the world
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