A new memoir, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening, tells the powerful story of a leading Saudi Arabian women’s rights activist. That’s Manal al-Sharif, who will share her journey on this week’s show from ultra-conservative teenager to finding herself in a Saudi Arabian jail for driving a car in public. We’ll hear what’s happened since and where the movement for women’s rights in Saudi is headed.

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