{"id":7159,"date":"2011-05-24T08:19:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T04:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=7159"},"modified":"2011-07-16T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T07:51:43","slug":"a-doctor-a-mother-now-shes-a-saudi-rebel-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/a-doctor-a-mother-now-shes-a-saudi-rebel-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"A Doctor, A Mother, Now She&#8217;s a Saudi &#8216;Rebel Driver&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/woman-driver-saudi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7161\" title=\"woman driver saudi\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/woman-driver-saudi-e1305962941229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/woman-driver-saudi-e1305962941229.jpg 498w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/woman-driver-saudi-e1305962941229-145x93.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a>Najla Hariri is a woman who possesses two driver&#8217;s licenses: one issued by Lebanon&#8217;s Ministry of Interior and the other by Egypt&#8217;s.\u00a0 You can add a third if you want to count in an international license.\u00a0 But since she is a Saudi Arabian citizen she cannot drive in her country&#8217;s cities.\u00a0 But she does anyway!\u00a0 You can read more about this determined woman&#8217;s drive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-13431562\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s not a rebellious teen.\u00a0 Rather, she&#8217;s a mother in her 40s who believes that &#8220;enough is enough&#8221;.\u00a0 And how right she is.\u00a0 I do not understand how a female doctor, for example, can be entrusted to save a human being&#8217;s life but not be allowed to drive a car.<\/p>\n<p>So to Najla Hariri and all the other Najlas, we respect you, we believe in you and we salute you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMAR AL-ISSAWI:  She is entrusted with the lives of many on a daily basis but Najla Hariri is not trusted to drive to treat those patients. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":7161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,10,5],"tags":[18300,18309,7090,18275,133,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}