Saudi women’s soul-destroying lives

• Published date: 18 June 2022
• Publication title: Mix, The

Rahaf Mohammed

Pan Macmillan

Subtitled My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom, this memoir reveals the severe handicaps which face women in the country.

The author is possessed of an awesome ability to recall in detail the terrifying slings and arrows which women of all ages suffer there.

She provides example after example of how females are subjected to horrendous handicaps.

When she was 10, Rahaf Mohammed’s mother told her she did not want her to be around her brothers at all, because she would be a woman soon.

That was when she learned the meaning of honour.

Her mother sat her down beside her, struck a match and held the flame very near to her body.

She...