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Three years ago, Rahaf Mohammed al Qunun took to Twitter, begging for her life. The 18-year-old runaway had just fled her oppressive life in Saudi Arabia — absconding in the dead of night while ...
In Rebel: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom, Rahaf Mohammed, now 21, explains how her family controlled what she wore, and even how she was allowed to sit.
Rahaf Mohammed says fleeing her family in Saudi Arabia was "worth the risk" so she could live freely. ... "But I was mostly exposed to violence by my mother and my brother," she added.
In this Jan. 7, 2019, file photo released by the Immigration Police, Chief of Immigration Police Maj. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, right, walks with Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun before leaving ...
In 2019, Rahaf Mohammed snuck out of a Kuwaiti hotel room in the middle of the night and headed to the airport to catch a plane to Bangkok. ... being beaten by your mother when she found out from your ...
Project host Lisa Wilkinson has conducted an emotional interview with Rahaf Mohammed, who dramatically fled her oppressive life in Saudia Arabia at 18 years old.
The case of 18-year-old asylum seeker, Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun from Saudi Arabia who has been held since Sunday against her will at Bangkok airport sheds a welcome light on the plight of women in ...
Earlier this month, 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun grabbed her passport and snuck out of her hotel room in Kuwait, where she and her family had been vacationing from Saudi Arabia.
MEMOIR Rebel Rahaf Mohammed Macmillan, $34.99. Every so often, a book comes along that challenges our emotional acumen in an almost unbearable way — a story so disturbing and unfathomable, we ...
Rahaf Mohammed says fleeing her family in Saudi Arabia was "worth the risk" so she could live freely. ... "But I was mostly exposed to violence by my mother and my brother," she added.
Rahaf Mohammed says fleeing her family in Saudi Arabia was "worth the risk" so she could live freely.