Unnatural to her to be imprisoned in her own home, hastened to action, inspired by the Arab Spring, she sought the splendor … of freedom … of movement. She sought to drive, like her sisters twenty years before, themselves inspired by American female soldiers.
Her constricted, archaic existence could not accept a modern woman. “Women cannot drive,” said they, in fierce condemnation.
Cloaked in her abaya, she wilted this spring. YouTube showed her behind the wheel, but not in jail.
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