12, 2019, to a crowd of cheering supporters throwing flowers and shouting “Welcome to Canada!” The next day, she woke up to hundreds of death threats on her phone. She arrived in Toronto a week later, on Jan. Social-media sympathizers helped connect her with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Canada granted her asylum. News outlets from all over the world breathlessly followed her plight as she barricaded herself in her hotel and refused to eat. “Please help me,” Rahaf tweeted in desperation. But Saudi forces caught up with her at the Bangkok airport, where they seized her passport, threw her into a hotel room and told her they would be returning her to her abusive family in two days. The 18-year-old runaway had just fled her oppressive life in Saudi Arabia - absconding in the dead of night while on a family vacation. Three years ago, Rahaf Mohammed al Qunun took to Twitter, begging for her life. OPEC move again shows why Biden’s war on US energy means disaster The US hands China the Middle East - at its own peril Saudi delegation in Iran after China-brokered deal
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.Saudi Arabia’s futuristic new city could be surveillance state 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. If caught, she was sure she would be killed, like other rebel women who had tried to flee her country’s oppressive regime.īut the eighteen-year-old only made it as far as Bangkok before her passport was taken away.
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.’Ī 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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