Manal Al Sharif

I am officially obsessed with her case, it's going out of control, I might need to go to rehab.
I spend my entire day on twitter and facebook waiting for updates, last night I saw the twitter notification bar in a dream, and I am using 2 laptops to keep up with the case.

If you couldn't already tell, yes I am with women driving, and I have been always a big supporter of the idea, but now I believe in it ever more firmly.

I am not a legal expert by any mean but from what I read on different publications, her arrest doesn't hold any legal grounds, and you can make you're own researches and I am sure you'll get to the same conclusion I have.

Initiating women to drive is not Manal only accomplishment, She graduated high school 3rd in Mecca, graduated college with honor, was part of a basketball championship team, and the only woman in the world to earn an ISO certificate in information security .

Manal has been sentenced for 5 days in jail, and tomorrow will be her last day, but no one knows if you'll be released but I hope so.

The case is more complicated to be summarized in one post, and I'll try to post more details about the case, and how people are reacting to it.
Keep praying for her to return back to her home and her 5 years old sick boy, and beside her successful career she's a single mom.
What an amazing lady she is, people like her make me feel kind of ashamed to be a Saudi Male, a gender that have been oppressing women for so long, to the point that Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that bans women from driving.

this is just an introductory post for hopefully more post expressing my own views regarding the matter and my arguments to people who oppose women driving.

my life is so boring

I has been a while since I posted in here, it looks like I was bloged out after posing for almost every day in April.

As the title of this post might implied, nothing much going on in my life, same old crap everyday, the only new thing is I am so sick it sucks, taking a cold shower before going to bed was not a good idea at all.

my younger brother left to the States yesterday for his summer vacation, I wish if that was me :( I hope you'll love it there.

I noticed something very strange yet very interesting, if you're get anything done fast by the phone pretend you're a foreigner with English as a first language.
for example, I was trying to get a reservation at trendy restaurant that just opened for my family, so I called and I was told that they are fully booked for the night, I called later in the same day and I spoke in English and pretended that I am American, and strangely I was able to get a table for seven that night.
anther example, if you want to book a flight by the phone, you'll be waiting less time for assistance if you made it in English.

Maybe those are just isolated incidents, it looks like I have so much free time to make such weird observations.

I just finished reading Room by Emma Donoghue, and what a great book this is, I love it, and I wont be surprised if it became a movie.