I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced,” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I was divorc — Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening

I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced,” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I was divorc — Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening

I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced,” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I was divorc — Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening

I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced,” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I was divorc — Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening

I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced,” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I was divorc — Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening

I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced,” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I was divorced in my absence, just as I had been married.

— Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening

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