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03136aam a2200457 i 4500 001 3D414994673311EEBF3E118F48ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231010010145 008 211129t20222022nyub 000 0aeng d 020 $a 0063045486 020 $a 9780063045484 020 $a 1443462772 020 $a 9781443462778 035 $a (OCoLC)1286835811 040 $a TOH $b eng $e rda $c TOH $d CCPLG $d BIB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CDX $d GZM $d CPL $d LEB $d IGP $d YDX $d UIB $d SILO 043 $a n-cn--- $a n-cn--- 050 4 $a HQ1730 $b .M643 2022 050 4 $a JV7282 $b .M64 2022 082 04 $a 305.9/06914 $2 23 082 04 $a 305.48697092 $2 23 100 1 $a Mohammed, Rahaf, $e author. 245 10 $a Rebel : $b my escape from Saudi Arabia to freedom / $c Rahaf Mohammed ; as told to Sally Armstrong. 250 $a First U.S. and Canadian editions. 264 1 $a New York : $b Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c 2022. 300 $a 241 pages : $b map ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Map on end papers. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241). 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Mohammed, Rahaf. 650 0 $a Women $z Saudi Arabia $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Muslim women $x Refugees $z Canada $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women's rights $z Saudi Arabia. 650 0 $a Sex discrimination against women $z Saudi Arabia. 650 0 $a Muslim women $z Saudi Arabia $x Economic conditions. 651 0 $a Saudi Arabia $x Social conditions. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Armstrong, Sally, $d 1943- $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010033838.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3D414994673311EEBF3E118F48ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search