RTVE: Speed Sisters, el primer equipo de rally femenino
April 9, 2013 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |
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CBS This Morning: All-Women Racing Team Turns Heads in Mideast
January 24, 2013 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Mark Philips
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January 24, 2013 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |By Catriona Davies
On the starting line of the Emirates Motorplex on Thursday (Jan 24) will be professional drift racing, one of the most dangerous disciplines in motorsport.
And amid the petrol fumes and testosterone will be a 23-year-old Palestinian woman, Noor Daoud.
Daoud, who had previously been invited to compete in a Formula 3 – a different discipline of motor racing – race in Israel, is the first Arab woman to compete on the international motorsport circuit.
She has spent two months in the United Arab Emirates training for the Drift UAE race on January 24, and will then go on to other international races in Japan and Poland.
Drifting is a driving technique, born in Japan, in which the driver intentionally oversteers, causing the rear wheels to skid, while maintaining control of the car.
“It’s a big race and all the international people will be there. I’m the first Arab girl to race in it, so it’s huge for me,” said Daoud.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/24/world/meast/speed-sisters-palestinian-motor-racing/index.htmlAssociated Press: Middle East ‘Speed Sisters’ Drive for Pride
January 3, 2013 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |The world of rally driving, long a testosterone-fuelled arena where skill and courage are tested to the max, is opening up to women. The Speed Sisters are the only female racing team in the Middle East and they are gaining more respect.
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http://news.linktv.org/videos/palestinian-speed-sister-racers-wow-middle-eastUSA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/sports/2013/01/03/middle-east-speed-sisters-drive-for-pride/1807051/Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/video/middle-east-speed-sisters-drive-172729187.htmlLycos Video
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http://video.lycos.com/video/view/middle-east-speed-sisters-drive-for-pride-g5047597/Sky News: Palestinian ‘Speed Sisters’ Winning Respect
January 2, 2013 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |By Sam Kiley
In the macho world of howling engines, burning rubber and men of action on Jordan’s Red Sea Coast, one racing team doesn’t quite fit.
Drivers from across Arabia descend on Aqaba for its annual street rally – a test of skill, and courage fuelled by high octane testosterone.
Racing for the first time since the Palestinians’ status was upgraded to a non-member observer state in a near-unaminous UN vote are the Speed Sisters – an all-female Palestinian team.
Noor from Ramallah, Betty from Bethlehem, and Mara from Jenin are the only female racing team in the conservative Middle East.
After crushing her thick, black mane into a crash helmet, Noor hit the circuit. Young men and women screw their heads from side to side as she drifts a borrowed BMW around car tyre obstacles.
The crowd cheers as she manages to give the thumbs up using the other hand to spin through 360 degrees.
The port city is happy to give her the R.E.S.P.E.C.T she demands. Indeed they lap it up. But it hasn’t always been easy.
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http://news.sky.com/story/1032761/palestinian-speed-sisters-winning-respectLBC
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http://www.lbc.co.uk/palestinian-speed-sisters-winning-respect-65267Opera Mundi: JericoSobre quatro rodas, “Speed Sisters” palestinas desafiam machismo
October 27, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Susana Mendoza
Ainda que a improvisada pista de corridas na Universidade de Istiklal, em Jericó, esteja lotada, não se vê nenhuma mulher entre a multidão. O ambiente exala testosterona. No entanto, isso não parece afetar as “Speed Sisters”, que competem neste campeonato local de carros de corrida e esperavam a vez para sair “queimando pneu”.
As quatro palestinas, muçulmanas e cristãs, estão dando o que falar na Cisjordânia, para o bem e para o mal. Entre 21 e 31 anos, o sonho delas é competir em corridas profissionais. O troféu máximo seria a Fórmula 1, contam. “Como corremos há bastante tempo, as pessoas já se acostumaram, embora ainda haja gente que não goste. Pensam que não é lugar de mulher, acham perigoso”, explica ao Opera Mundi Mona Ennab, enquanto espera a vez ao lado do carro, adornado com listras vermelhas.
Ela conta que, no começo o pai se opôs à ideia, mas logo percebeu que esse era seu sonho. A família o acompanhou na decisão. “Mas ainda há muitas pessoas que nos criticam, inclusive com insultos”, diz Mona. “Acredito no que faço. Por meio da corrida reivindico os direitos das mulheres palestinas, o direito de decidir sobre sua vida”, completa a jovem, vestindo um ajustado macacão laranja e preto.
As “Speed Sisters” são a primeira equipe feminina de carros de corrida do Oriente Médio. Ainda que existam outras mulheres árabes no esporte, nenhuma obteve tanto destaque na mídia. “Somos uma raridade. Temos muitos fãs entre os homens também. Para eles há o ingrediente erótico: quatro mulheres usando macacões e dirigindo em alta velocidade”, ri Mona.
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http://operamundi.uol.com.br/conteudo/reportagens/25105/sobre+quatro+rodas+speed+sisters+palestinas+desafiam+machismo+.shtmlNoticieros Televisa: ‘Speed Sisters’ palestinas desafían las reglas
October 22, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Susana Mendoza
Cuatro mujeres palestinas desafían a la sociedad patriarcal y conforman el primer equipo femenino de carreras de coches en todo Medio Orientes; son las ‘Speed Sisters’ y esperan se les unan otras participantes.Las carreras de coches en Cisjordania están de moda, ya sea improvisando circuitos en parkings o compitiendo a nivel regional, este deporte va ganando terreno en los territorios palestinos.
Y con él, un grupo de mujeres, que desafiando a la sociedad patriarcal, van escalando posiciones y quemando rueda. Se trata de las “Speed Sisters”, el primer equipo femenino de carreras de coches de todo Oriente Medio, que animan a más mujeres palestinas a unirse a ellas y “quemar rueda” en los circuitos de carreras.
“Deberían venir, porque al principio estaba yo sola y ahora somos cuatro ya, e incluso puede que seamos más, y ahora esperamos poder ir a la Fórmula 1 después de esto”, dice Mona Ennab, piloto de Speed Sisters.
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http://noticierostelevisa.esmas.com/especiales/515582/speed-sisters-palestinas-desafian-reglas/Les inRocks: Les Speed Sisters – 4 folles du volant en Palestine occupee
September 26, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |
Les Speed Sisters: 4 folles du volant en… by lesinrocksA Ramallah en Palestine, les Speed Sisters font cramer de la gomme en Territoires occupés. Rodéos à la lisière de la ville, “donuts” endiablés et courses contre la montre sous le soleil écrasant de Jéricho… les Inrocks se sont glissés dans le coffre pour un reportage au pas de charge.
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September 24, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |
مع أن الشابة ميسون الجيوسي تعمل مساعدة إدارية في هيئة الأمم المتحدة لإغاثة وتشغيل اللاجئين (الأنروا) في القدس، وتمتلك متجراً لبيع الملابس النسائية (بوتيك) في مدينة رام الله، إلا أنها تقود منذ عامين فريقاً نسوياً لسباقات السيارات (الرالي) بات يحظى بشهرة على مستوى عربي ودولي، ليس فقط على المستوى المحلي، ويعرف باسم «سبيد سسترز».
ويضم الفريق فتيات من مختلف المدن الفلسطينية، أبرزهن مرح زحالقة من جنين وحصلت على بطولة فلسطين قبل عامين، وبيتي سعادة من بيت لحم والمولودة في المكسيك، ونور داود الفلسطينية المولودة في الولايات المتحدة وقضت سنوات من عمرها في بودابست، ومنى عناب من مدينة البيرة، وهديل جرادات من الخليل وتدرس الهندسة الميكانيكية في جامعة بيرزيت قرب رام الله.Read the full article (AR):
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http://alhayat.com/Details/437823Rolling Stone Middle East: Palestine’s Speed Sisters – Girls on Film
September 9, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |By Rebecca Collard
New documentary leaves stereotypes trailing in the dust
FOR AMBER FARES, making a film about Palestinian female racecar drivers is an opportunity to challenge multiple misconceptions. “A lot of stories that come out of Palestine are the same story,” she says. “It’s a story about occupation, and it’s a very valid story, but I think this really gives people an opportunity to see another side of Palestine, a side that’s not often shown.” Fares, a Canadian-Lebanese filmmaker, is the director of the upcoming feature-length documentary Speed Sisters, named after the Arab world’s first all-female racing team, whom Fares has been filming since 2010.
“It’s another side of Arab women – who are not necessarily covered, who are not overly religious. It shows an aspect of women in the Arab world which is rarely ever seen,” Fares explains.
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http://www.rollingstoneme.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1892Roya News
August 31, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |في فلسطين المحتلة، حيث التحدي اسلوب حياة، فتيات فلسطينيات يتحدين الشباب هذه المرة ، ومرح زحالقة بطلةُ فلسطين في سباقاتِ السرعة مثالا. من نشرة أخبار رؤيا ليوم 31-8-2012 تابعوا نشرة رؤيا الإخبارية يومياً على السابعة والنصف مساءً على رؤيا
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August 25, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |By Florencia Valdés Andino
Depuis deux ans, de jeunes femmes enfilent combinaison et casque pour piloter leurs bolides en Palestine. C’est ainsi que chrétiennes et musulmanes s’affranchissent dans un milieu qui ne voit pas toujours leur passe-temps d’un très bon œil.
Ces jeunes filles de Ramallah ne sont pas comme on les imagine. Perchées sur des talons de plusieurs centimètres, un sac de créateur accroché au bras, elles sont coquettes à souhait.
Une fois qu’elles troquent les escarpins pour des chaussures de course, elles s’attaquent aux clichés en participant à des rallyes où elles battent parfois les hommes.
Il s’agit de la première équipe de courses féminine dans le Moyen Orient. Cinq jeunes femmes, musulmanes comme chrétiennes, défient l’autorité parentale et les coutumes macho du pays pour devenir des stars locales.
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http://www.francetv.fr/geopolis/les-speed-sisters-pilotes-de-course-palestiniennes-a-ramallah-7909B92: Palestinke, zvezde auto-trka
August 25, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |Grupa od šest žena, muslimanki i hrišćanki starih između 25 i 35 godina, borila se protiv skeptičnih roditelja, izraelske okupacije i neodobravanja javnosti da bi ubrzo postale lokalne zvezde i tema dokumentarca Speed Sisters.
Sa svojim narandžastim noktima, torbom marke “Majkl Kors” i uskim farmerkama, Palestinka Majsun Jajuši uopšte ne deluje kao vozač auto-trka – sve dok ne sedne za volan.
Čim pokrene svoj terenac ona uz škripu guma nestaje iz vida, probijajući se gustim saobraćajem Ramale i mašući začuđenim prolaznicima.
Lako je videti zašto je tim koji predvodi – prvi ženski trkački tim Bliskog istoka – nazvan “Sestre brzine”.
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http://www.b92.net/zivot/antitabu.php?yyyy=2012&mm=08&dd=25&nav_id=637486El Mundo: De Cisjordania a Le Mans, el sueno es posible
August 24, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |By Sal Emergui
En 2009 la palestina Marah Zajalka tenia apenas 18 años cuando recibió a ELMUNDO.es en su casa de Jenin para expresar sus dos grandes sueños: “Estudiar para ser directora de cine y seguir soñando sobre cuatro ruedas”. Hoy, sus deseos se mezclan acercándose a la meta imaginaria que tantas veces ha soñado: cruzar con su automóvil ‘amateur’ de carreras en las carreteras de Cisjordania.
Y es que su pasión por los coches y la velocidad en una ciudad como Yenín parecía entonces un buen guión de ciencia ficción. Como mucho, una válvula de escape original de una adolescente palestina que admiraba a su madre, profesora de conducción. Ahora los temores, ilusiones e impedimentos (sociales, culturales, políticos, físicos…) de Marah y otras pilotos palestinas se trasladan a la gran pantalla.
‘Speed Sisters’ es el documental que pone la quinta marcha en una lucha contra el machismo que reina en la sociedad palestina y contra los obstáculos y limitaciones que impone Israel en la Cisjordania que ocupa desde la guerra del 67.
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http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/08/24/internacional/1345789194.htmlAFP: Palestine’s ‘Speed Sisters’ find freedom behind the wheel
August 23, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |By Sara Hussein
Agence France Presse
With her bright orange pedicure, Michael Kors handbag and skinny jeans, Maysoon Jayyusi hardly looks like a Palestinian speed racer — until she gets behind the wheel.
The minute she starts up her SUV, she’s off — coursing ahead of the rest of the traffic, weaving among bewildered locals in the crowded streets of the West Bank city of Ramallah.
It’s easy to see why the team she heads — the Middle East’s first female speed racing team — has been dubbed the “Speed Sisters.”
The group of six women, Muslims and Christians from their 20s to mid-30s, have battled skeptical parents, the realities of the Israeli occupation and a sometimes disapproving public to become local stars and even the subject of a documentary.
“We feel we are free when we’re doing this,” teammate Mona Ennab, 26, said. “It’s a way to escape everything around us.”
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http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20120824133904
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http://www.nydailynews.com/autos/palestinian-women-find-total-freedom-middle-east-female-speeding-racing-team-speed-sisters-article-1.1145257Asia One
http://motoring.asiaone.com/Motoring/News/Story/A1Story20120823-366976.htmlNew Delhi Television (NDTV)
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/palestine-s-first-women-racing-team-finds-freedom-behind-the-wheel-259350?pfrom=home-otherstoriesNENA News
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http://nena-news.globalist.it/Detail_News_Display?ID=32722&typeb=0MTV News (Italia): Speed sisters, le palestinesi su auto da corsa contro pregiudizi
August 23, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |REDAZIONE MTV NEWS
Donne sprint contro i pregiudizi. Si chiamano Speed Sisters le tre ragazze palestinesi che hanno trasformato la passione per le auto sportive in un lavoro, formando il primo team da corsa femminile del Medio Oriente. La storia è iniziata più di dieci anni fa: le ragazze sono state notate dalla Federazione palestinese, che ha offerto loro la possibilità di formare la squadra. Superando le difficoltà politiche, ma anche lo scetticismo di genitori e opinione pubblica, sono arrivate a correre in Formula 3.
“Questo sport è stato monopolizzato dagli uomini, ma le ragazze si sono fatte largo sulla scena locale e internazionale. Il nostro gruppo ha la forza dell’audacia, dato che è composto di solo donne palestinesi” spiega Maysoon.
“Amo correre da quando ero bambina. Quando ho cominciato tutti erano contrari, era inaccettabile che una ragazza palestinese competesse con 67 ragazzi. Sono stata la prima donna a gareggiare nel 2004, sino ad allora era inaccettabile, ma io sono arrivata ottava anche se non sapevo molto di macchine”.Tutt’altra storia quella di Betty, che viene da una famiglia di corridori. “Io mi sono messa alla prova, e le donne palestinesi hanno dimostrato il loro valore in politica e nello sport: possiamo dimostrare al mondo che meritiamo uno Stato”. Galvanizzate dalla visita al circuito di Silverstone, in Gran Bretagna, le ragazze puntano a competere a livello internazionale, il sogno è la Formula 1. Intanto saranno protagoniste di un film, in uscita nel 2013.
http://www.mtvnews.it/news/esteri/speed-sisters-le-palestinesi-su-auto-da-corsa-contro-pregiudizi/
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August 23, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |In Saudi-Arabien ist Autofahren für Frauen verboten – wenige hundert Kilometer entfernt im Westjordanland dagegen gibt es den ersten weiblichen Auto-Rennstall des Nahen Ostens. Hier trotzen sechs “Speed Sisters” skeptischen Eltern, der israelischen Besatzung der Palästinensergebiete und einer teils ablehnenden Öffentlichkeit. Die rasenden Rebellinnen träumen von der Formel Eins.
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August 22, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |
Play VideoThe Middle East’s first female speed racing team, dubbed the “Speed Sisters”, is made up of six women, Muslims and Christians from their 20s to mid-30s, who have battled skeptical parents, the realities of the Israeli occupation, and a sometimes disapproving public. Despite the difficulties, the women have major ambitions.
Formula One? Not quite. But that’s what these women, dubbed the Speed Sisters, are aiming for. Battling against all odds, they’ve become the Middle East’s first ever female speed racing team in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Mona Ennab, Head, Speed Sisters Team, said, “This great sport has been monopolized by men. Girls have entered this sport with force and have spread on the local and international scene. This group is characterized by its audacity, by the fact that it’s entirely made up of Palestinian women, and that it’s been successful for the past two years.”
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http://english.cntv.cn/program/newshour/20120822/104351.shtmlRT: Palestinian Speed Sisters racing towards freedom
August 22, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |http://rt.com/sport/motorsports/palestine-speed-sisters-racing-287/
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August 22, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |
Tan queridas como criticadas, tienen entre 20 y 30 años, y sin duda se han convertido en todo un símbolo para su país. Son las «Speed sisters», un grupo de mujeres palestinas que no usan velo y compiten en igualdad de condiciones en un circuito de carreras junto a multitud de hombres
Este grupo de seis mujeres (musulmanas y cristianas), han luchado contra el escepticismo e incluso contra sus padres, recelosos en un principio de dejarlas correr. Sin embargo, finalmente el esfuerzo se impuso, y tras años participando en las carreras con automóviles de segunda mano pertenecientes a tiendas de alquiler de coches, consiguieron alzarse hasta a la cima.
Pero, como era de esperar, esta actividad también ha sido criticada por muchos, aunque parece que, gracias a ellas, la mentalidad musulmana comienza a abrirse poco a poco. Las «Speed sisters» lo tienen claro: «El coche no sabe si eres hombre o mujer».\
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http://www.abc.es/20120822/motor/abci-speed-sisters-201208221556.htmlThe National: Speed Sisters documents the lives of female Arab car racers
August 1, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |By Alex Ritman
Just a few seconds near a road should be enough to convince most that the Middle East is home to one or two (or quite a few) petrol heads, with daredevil driving in souped-up cars a pastime that has extended far beyond the race track and into rush-hour traffic.
But there are still some aspects of racing in the region that are able to turn heads, one being the idea of female drivers competing in a territory not exactly renowned for motor sports. And turn heads is exactly what the Speed Sisters – a group of women racers from Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora, and the first all-female racing team in the Middle East – have managed to do. They are raising countless eyebrows through their participation in regional autocross time trials, races that involve plenty of doughnuts, zigzags and frantic manoeuvring around cones laid out on a course.
Next year, their profile is set to soar when a new documentary on the Speed Sisters is released. The film, which is currently raising funds via a campaign on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, is being put together by Amber Fares, a Canadian-Lebanese filmmaker who has been living in Ramallah for four years.
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http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/film/speed-sisters-documents-the-lives-of-female-arab-car-racers#fullRevista Autopolis: Mujer al Volante – “Speed sisters”, una historia de superación que inspira un documental
July 23, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |
En un entorno totalmente machista y un territorio repleto de barreras conservadoras cuatro mujeres pilotos palestinas están rompiendo esquemas con su equipo, “Speed sisters”, sueños hechos realidad que bien podrían ser tema de una película.
Nur Daud, de 21 años, Mona Enab (24), Betty Sade (31) y Mara Zahalka (20) compartían la pasión por la adrenalina y los autos, objetivo por el que lucharon contra viento y marea.
Para empezar, son mujeres y esta condición de genero no las ayudo para abrirse camino en la vida, su anhelo se convirtió en una misión casi heroica en el mundo automovilístico, dominado por hombres, y en una sociedad como palestina, que es muy tradicional y con roles de género definidos.
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http://www.revistaautopolis.com/mujer_25.htmlMSN Latino Video: Las “Speed Sisters” hacen frente al machismo y a la ocupación israelí
July 19, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Uncategorized |By Antonio Pita (EFE)
En un entorno masculino y un territorio repleto de barreras al movimiento, cuatro jóvenes pilotos palestinas rompen moldes con su equipo, “Speed sisters”, una historia de superación que inspira un documental.
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July 19, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |By Antonio Pita (EFE)
En un entorno masculino y un territorio repleto de barreras al movimiento, cuatro jóvenes pilotos palestinas rompen moldes con su equipo, “Speed sisters”, una historia de superación que inspira un documental. Nur Daud, de 21 años, Mona Enab (24), Betty Sade (31) y Mara Zahalka (20) reunían todas las condiciones para que su compartida pasión por las cuatro ruedas se hubiese quedado en una quimera.
Para empezar, son mujeres. Si en general esto ayuda poco a abrirse camino en la vida, la misión se vuelve casi heroica en un mundo, el automovilístico, dominado por hombres, y en una sociedad, la palestina, tradicional y con marcados roles de género.
“La sociedad árabe tiene esa idea de que el deporte es sólo cosa de hombres. Ahora que la gente se ha dado cuenta de que esto no es para mí una mera afición, lo entiende mejor”, señala Mara, que tuvo “muchos problemas” en su ciudad natal, Yenín, para sacar su sueño adelante.
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http://www.publico.es/deportes/439807/cuatro-pilotos-palestinas-corren-en-cisjordania-contra-mucho-mas-que-el-relojSundance Institute Awards Speed Sisters a Development Grant
July 9, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Film Announcements |Los Angeles, CA — Sundance Institute today announced 27 feature-length documentary films that will receive $490,000 in grants from its Documentary Film Program and Fund (DFP).
Cara Mertes, Director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and Fund said, “The grants announced today represent an incredible array of storytelling. Many of these films examine people, events and movements that tell a story of transformative change. Each film has the potential to bring this experience to viewers around the world.”
Awarding grants is a core activity of the DFP, which provides year-round creative support and funding to nonfiction filmmakers globally. Proposals are accepted twice a year, and submissions are reviewed by a jury of creative film professionals and human rights experts, based on their approach to storytelling, artistic treatment and innovation, subject relevance and potential for social engagement. Visit www.sundance.org/documentary for more information.
The DFP celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2012 and since its inception has awarded grants to more than 425 documentary filmmakers in 61 countries, including the projects announced today.
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http://www.sundance.org/press-center/release/sundance-institute-announces-grants-to-27-documentaries/+972: Palestinian ‘Speed Sisters’ navigate life and the racetrack
July 3, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |By Noa Yachot
+972: Independent Reporting and Commentary from Israel and Palestine
They navigate the racetrack, Palestinian society, competition in a male dominated sport, and a military occupation. But “outside the car is one thing. Inside the car is another world.” So begins the trailer for a documentary in the works that tracks the lives of five women race car drivers – Palestine’s own “Speed Sisters.”
Betty Saadeh, Maysoon Jayyusi, Noor Daoud, Marah Zahalka, and Mouna Ennab make up a team of Palestinian women competing against men and one another in monthly autocross races in the West Bank city of Jericho. Their lives are documented in “Speed Sisters,” a film directed by Amber Fares.
Fares, a Canadian filmmaker living in Ramallah, met the women when she was tapped to make short films about them for a British Consulate project. Those films have turned into what will be a full-length documentary. Fares hasn’t finished filming, but her movie has already generated substantial online buzz…
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Jezebel: Female Palestinian Race Car Drivers Documented in Speed Sisters Film
June 22, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Dodai Stewart
Jezebel.comIn January, we read about a woman named Noor Daoud — born in Texas, former member of the Olympic swim team, former player on the Palestinian national soccer team — currently racing cars in Formula 3.
Daoud and her cohorts formed a group called the Speed Sisters, possibly the first all-female racing team in the Middle East. At the time, we heard a film about the group was “reportedly in the works.” Well, the movie is definitely in progress, although the filmmaker — a woman named Amber Fares — is in desperate need of funding. Interested? Donate here.
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June 21, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |By Laura Brehaut
Postmedia NewsDirector Amber Fares is the first to admit that she knew absolutely nothing about racing before she met the Speed Sisters in late 2009. An Alberta-born filmmaker now living in Ramallah, Palestine, Fares was introduced to the first all-women racing team in the Middle East by a friend at the British consulate in Jerusalem. The consulate hired her documentary film company SocDoc Studios to create a program of video clips called “Speed Sisters.” At the time, there were two or three women racing an old donated BMW that they had souped up to get track-ready.
“We were involved in doing these clips and it wasn’t long before we were like, ‘Wow! This is really interesting. There’s a larger documentary here,’” Fares says. Her relationship with the team went on from there and she has been filming the Speed Sisters regularly for a feature-length documentary since the racing season started in March 2010.
Fares’ grandparents left Lebanon for Canada in the early 1900s and she thinks of herself as “100% Lebanese but 100% Canadian.” Her parents are both from Saskatchewan and she was born in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Her cultural background has helped when it comes to building and maintaining relationships with the women, as well as in filmmaking. “I have one foot in Arab culture and one foot in North American culture, which is advantageous for me in terms of a storyteller and it’s great in terms of dealing with these girls,” she says. “There’s a trust level there that was built a lot easier than if I were completely a foreigner coming in.”
Fares intends to tell a personal story with the film, not a political one. She feels that there are enough political stories being told about the region and that she can offer a different perspective through sharing the experiences of the racers. “Racing is the hook. People can identify with the idea of racing, and they can identify with what these girls want to do and some of the issues that they come across in their lives. They’re universal,” she says. “I think that’s a really great way for people to be introduced to this region and to want to understand what’s happening but I’m not out to make a political stance or political film.”
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+ Read more…Brownbook: Speed Sisters
June 12, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Katy Gilet
It is not common to find female street-car racers and in the Arab world it is near impossible. But, in the Palestinian West Bank there is a whole team of women, known as The Speed Sisters, professionally racing around the streets of Ramallah, completely shattering misguided stereotypes as they go.
This is a story that has captured much international attention in the past few years. It is a tale of Mona, Marrah, Noor, Betty and Maysoon (the manager) who are stunning speed freaks ultimately determined to fulfil their passion and open the world’s eyes to the opportunities available to women in the Middle East.
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http://www.brownbook.me/speed-sistersJO: Ladies Who Rally
February 9, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Tanja Habjouqa
JO MagazineThe Speed Sisters, the Middle East’s first all-female racing team, have gained a high level of attention in their short existence. But for all the approving press, it’s a trial to succeed
BETTY SAADEH PULLS ON her aviator shades to block out the hordes of male fans as she edges her souped-up, candy-apple red Volkswagen Golf GTI toward the start line at the track in Jericho. Earnest prepubescent kids with peach-fuzz mustaches stare through the tinted windows in amazement as she purses her lips, applies lipstick, and fluffs her blonde hair.
The championship of autocross racing in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is in full swing, with thousands of men of all ages covering every available space on the makeshift track, from water towers, aluminum roofs, to broken fences. Just outside the course, an Israeli watchtower looms up to mark the separation of Jericho from the Jordanian border. The final race of 2011 is going out with a bang, replete with nationalistic symbols of both the Palestinian Authority and the visiting Jordanian team. “Wein Al Ramallah” alternates with “Hashemi, Hashemi” when Jordanian racers take the track, with a little Black Eyed Peas sprinkled in.
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February 4, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Ruth Morgan
The quiet of a Saturday night in Bethlehem is broken at ten to midnight by the screech of wheels on asphalt. Betty Saadeh is speeding past the ancient Church of the Nativity in her red Golf GTI, perfectly manicured nails tipped with silver glitter gripping the wheel, a pair of six-inch heels at the pedals.
She’s wearing a figure-hugging black dress and has spent the afternoon in the salon having extensions added to her blonde hair: tonight she’s celebrating. The 32-year-old mother of two became — officially — the fastest woman on the West Bank yesterday when she won the women’s championship in Palestine’s speed test series, driving the same Golf she’s now parking up in the city center.
It, too, has undergone a transformation. This morning it was still a shell, metal innards exposed as the interior was stripped of all but her bucket racing seat. But her mechanic, Maher, restored it to normality this afternoon and now the only signs of yesterday’s action are the remains of the racing stickers that covered the exterior. One on the passenger door displays in large red letters the name of Palestine’s first and only female race team: the Speed Sisters.
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http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Article/Palestinian-Speed-Sisters-Featured-in-March-2012-Red-Bulletin-Magazine-021243153541140NPR: Palestinian Women Behind the Wheel and Ahead of the Pack
January 20, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Bill Chappell
Palestine might not seem like a breeding ground for race car drivers. After all, the area is dotted with checkpoints and roadblocks, hundreds of obstacles that can cramp a driver’s ability to explore a car’s limits.
But that hasn’t stopped a group of Palestinian women from driving very fast, winning races and making a name for themselves along the way.
“‘In Saudi Arabia, women are prevented from driving – here in Palestine we have women who drive race cars,” says an official in the Palestinian Motor Sport and Motorcycle Federation.
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/01/20/145526384/palestinian-women-behind-the-wheel-and-ahead-of-the-packJezebel: Meet the Speed Sisters, Palestinian Race Car Drivers Intent on Winning
January 13, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Dodai Stewart
JezebelPictured above is Noor Daoud. She was born in Texas, likes fast cars, but also was on an Olympic swim team and on the Palestinian national soccer team. Right now, though, she’s focused on racing Formula 3. According to reports, Daoud is the first Palestinian, male or female, to participate in and win an Israeli race. And she’s not alone:
A group of women who call themselves “The Speed Sisters” constitutes what may be the first female racing team in the Middle East. A film about the group is reportedly in the works.
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+ Read more…Sydney Morning Herald: Fast and furiously keen, Speed Sisters become queens of the road
January 12, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Ruth Pollard
BETTY Saadeh pulls up to the kerb in her modified, deep red, VW Golf GTi, dark Aviator sunglasses, styled blonde hair and flawless make-up. After a quick chat, she motions for us to follow her, roaring downhill from the fashionable Ramallah neighbourhood of al-Tireh towards a fast-setting sun.
Mexican-born Palestinian Saadeh has been driving since she was 11. By the time she was 15 she was stealing her mother’s car to go for joyrides. Now, as one of the members of the first all-women’s motor racing team in the Middle East, she drives really fast. Everywhere.
Saadeh is the reigning female champion in Palestinian motor racing – ranked the number one woman, the number one in her class (2000cc, 280 horsepower) and eighth in the top 10 male and female racers in the territory.
The 31-year-old divorced mother of two was born into racing. Her father Julio Saadeh was a champion in Mexico in the 1980s and her 33-year-old brother George took out autocross honours in 2009 in Palestine.
Like her teammates, Saadeh – who studied international relations at university and works in the Mexican government’s representative office in Ramallah – competes against men.
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+ Read more…This Week in Palestine: Image and Reality – Speed Sisters Beyond the Headlines
January 4, 2012 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |By Amber Fares (Director of Speed Sisters the film)
It’s 7 a.m. in Jenin and the last of the oversized wooden crates have been cleared out of the open-air vegetable market. A group of volunteers in bright orange vests set cones on chalk marks scratched on the asphalt. The Palestinian Motor Sports and Motorcycle Federation’s banner flutters alongside those of local corporate sponsors, while its founder and chair paces frantically, making last-minute arrangements. Food vendors begin their rounds. A crowd gathers around the track.
This is not where I expected to find myself when I came to Ramallah four years ago. It was certainly not the image of Palestine that I had been shown while living in Canada, the news cycle regularly featuring Palestine, but striking a repetitive chord: conflict, death, depression. No life. No happiness. No hope.
The first car peels off the line and screeches around the cones, nearly drowned out by the cheers of a thousand fans energised by the day of racing ahead. They are young men, mostly, boys, a few families with kids. The more nimble have climbed atop the buildings and shipping crates to get a better view. And then, the crowd is suddenly quiet, their eyes tracking the black VW Golf entering the track.
“Nummber 2! Marrrrrrrah, from Jenin!” The crowd erupts. “Huh? A girl?” one guy asks. Marah, the 20-year-old racing prodigy drives up to the start line. Jenin is home, and this is her turf. It was here that she first beat most of the guys to place in the top ten. Eyes closed, she whispers a passage of self-encouragement from the Qur’an. Her fingers chart the course in the air that she is tracing in her mind, that she has been doodling in the pages of her course books for days, that she has been seeing in her sleep. It loops and weaves. It seems to never end.
But she knows it now. She’ll find her way.
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http://thisweekinpalestine.com/i165/pdfs/January%20165-2012.pdfThe National: Palestine’s female racers: ‘When I drive, I understand freedom’
December 22, 2011 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Tanya Habjouqa
With the Gulf of Aqaba shimmering behind her, 21-year-old Noor Daoud showed what she was made of as she flew into first place for women in Israel’s first legal car race, a two-day event in Eilat last weekend that featured Formula Renault cars in a traditional grand prix-style format. Daoud was overcome with emotion as the solo Palestinian female racer competing with Israelis. The win brings her one step closer to her dreams of racing internationally.
Born in Texas and with a wild mane of hair, Daoud is a daughter of the diaspora whose life has taken her around the world – from boarding school in Switzerland to sports studies in the US state of Florida. However, while she chooses to focus on sports, not politics, she still has vivid memories of crossing checkpoints in East Jerusalem and emptying her backpack for soldiers on her way to and from school. While Daoud is devoted to racing, you can find her assisting her mother’s Ramallah-based haute couture clothing store, at times teetering in Prada heels and Dolce & Gabbana dresses until she bolts out the door to practise for Palestine’s Speed Sisters – the first all-female racing team in the Middle East.
In many ways, the six women represent the diversity of what Palestine has become – fragmented West Bank cities divided by checkpoints, settlements and lifestyle differences depending upon identification and socio-economic class. Yet they are tied together by an intense love of racing, their Palestinian identity and their willingness to compete in a male-dominated sport.
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http://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/palestines-female-racers-when-i-drive-i-understand-freedomGetty Images Europe: Palestinian Noor Daoud Competes In Israel’s First Legal Car Races
December 14, 2011 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |
(December 14, 2011 – Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images Europe)
Palestinian Noor Daoud holds her 3rd place trophy as she stands next to her grandfather after the Formula Israel’s women race, Israel’s first legal car race on December 15, 2011 in Eilat, Israel. Daoud will compete in Israel’s first legal car race, a two day event featuring races in Formula Renault cars in a traditional grand prix style format.
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http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/drD4pvWx3-b/Palestinian+Noor+Daoud+Competes+Israel+First/wPMZ8CWXnqpAl Arabiya: The Palestinian Speed Sisters are racing to stardom
December 8, 2011 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |By Nadia Idriss Mayen
with AgenciesBetty Saadeh is one of many female motor racers climbing the ranks on the race tracks. Her team, the Speed Sisters, is the first female team competing in the Middle East.
Saadeh’s team is advancing and pushing boundaries in the Arab circuits as an all-female motor-racing team, competing alongside male opponents in the races held in Ramallah and areas in the West Bank.
The team consists of both Muslim and Christian Palestinian women between the ages of 18 and 39.
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http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/12/08/181511.htmlSpeed Sisters on Trans World Sport
November 21, 2011 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |+ Read more…Qantara: Emanzipation im Rennanzug
October 26, 2011 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Andreas Baum
Palästinensische Frauen im Westjordanland sind immer mehr in der Lage, selbstbestimmt zu leben. Das zeigt auch das Beispiel der Speed Sisters – eine Gruppe von Frauen, die als Rennfahrerinnen Aufsehen erregen. Eine Reportage von Andreas Baum aus Ramallah
Nur Dahud liebt den Klang ihres Motors. Die 22-Jährige öffnet die Motorhaube ihres aufgemotzten BMWs und tritt im Leerlauf aufs Gaspedal – so hört man am besten, was der Wagen drauf hat. “Ein 320i, mit einem Dreilitermotor, der hat echt Power”, sagt sie. “Ich wollte ihn eigentlich umrüsten, auf Handschaltung statt Automatik – aber alle meine Freunde haben gesagt: Tu das nicht. So wie Du fährst, wird er dich umbringen.”
Nur Dahud ist eine der “Speed Sisters” von Ramallah. Acht Frauen – Muslimas und Christinnen im Alter von 19 bis 38 – haben sich zum ersten Rennfahrerinnenverband in der Geschichte Palästinas zusammengeschlossen. Sie sind die offizielle Mannschaft ihres Landes. Die Rennen finden auf der ganzen Westbank statt – in Bethlehem, Ramallah, Jenin –, aber auch in Jordanien und Ägypten. Und nicht selten schneiden sie besser ab, als ihre männlichen Kollegen.
Als Trainingsgelände dient ein Parkplatz am Stadtrand von Ramallah, direkt an der Mauer, mit der die Palästinensergebiete abgetrennt worden sind, in unmittelbarer Nähe eines israelischen Checkpoints. Für Palästinenser aus der Westbank ohne Sondergenehmigung ist hier die Welt zu Ende.
[...]+ Read more…Public Radio Exchange: The Speed Sisters – Racing in Ramallah
July 15, 2011 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Polly Fields
‘The Speed Sisters’ are the West Bank’s first, and only, all-female, Palestinian racing team. They have become serious competitors on the West Bank’s growing street-car racing scene, that stretches across the battle-scarred towns of Jenin, Nablus, Bethlehem and Hebron. These young women train alongside macho Palestinian men under the gaze of Israeli military watchtowers, and embrace Ramallah’s burgeoning nightlife. I follow these women in this occupied territory, as they try to live somewhere on the bridge between the Palestinian culture they respect, and the modern, secular lifestyle they desire.
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http://www.prx.org/pieces/57348-the-speed-sisters-racing-in-ramallahCNTV News: Palestinian female race car driver dreams of Formula 1
January 13, 2011 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Stephanie Fried
China Network TelevisionThe sport of auto racing is rapidly gaining in popularity and demand among Palestinians living on the West Bank. One driver currently making waves around the Arab circuit is breaking all kinds of barriers because she’s a woman.
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http://english.cntv.cn/program/asiatoday/20110113/105056.shtmlThe National: Street Racing Queen of Ramallah
November 11, 2010 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Polly Fields
Mona takes a long drag on her cigarette. She is the first to arrive tonight, and nervously taps the steering wheel of her silver Opal Astra, watching, waiting.
The low, menacing rumble of the cars reaches us long before we see them.
They are on their way.
We are at a dusty piece of tarmac the size of a football pitch on the outskirts of Ramallah. It is a piece of land that marks the end of the West Bank. Running alongside us is a barbed-wire fence, separating the occupied Palestinian West Bank from Israel. An Israeli watchtower looms nearby, and occasionally, a green-clad soldier becomes visible, peering curiously at the scene unfolding a few metres away, a scene that occurs weekly.
Ramallah’s street racers have arrived. There are 18 of them, macho-looking Palestinian men, each with a modified BMW, Mercedes or Volkswagen. Lined up, engines revving, they take no notice of the Israeli military vehicles patrolling on the other side of the fence.
This evening, 24-year-old Mona Ennab and a handful of other twenty-something women are joining their male counterparts. They are street racers, too, and wait their turn at the obstacle course laid out in front of them.
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http://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/motoring/street-racing-queen-of-ramallahVoice of America: Palestinian Women with a Need for Speed
July 27, 2010 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Leslie Hollis
A different kind of racing team is speeding into the world of motorsports in the West Bank.
Out of the BMW racing car steps the driver, wearing a yellow and black racing suit. With sunglasses and a helmet, no one would notice anything unusual, until the driver removes the helmet. With a curly ponytail and a grin from ear to ear, female racing team captain Suna Aweidah waves to the crowd of onlookers.
Aweidah is a part of a group of women known as the Speed Sisters. The eight-member, all-female Palestinian motorsports team is racing through gender barriers in the West Bank. For Suna Aweidah, the Speed Sisters are a dream come true and the highest point in her struggle to fulfill an ambition of becoming a racecar driver. But as she explains, not everyone in the West Bank was equally excited to see females on the male-dominated racing track.
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http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Palestinian-Women-with-a-Need-for-Speed-99353094.htmlCNN: The Palestinian women racing drivers with a need for speed
July 8, 2010 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Paula Hancocks
A smell of burning rubber hits you as you arrive at the car-racing course in Ramallah.
Souped-up cars spin round the small track, forming figures of eight around traffic cones, smoke pouring from screeching tires.
This is practice day in the West Bank, but the men are merely spectators. Today is for the Palestinian women who feel the need for speed.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/08/palestinian.female.race.driversBBC World Service: The Speed Sisters
July 7, 2010 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Matthew Bannister
A group of Palestinian women have formed the West Bank’s first all-female motor-racing team, called the Speed Sisters.
Suna Aweidah is the captain of this unconventional team of racing drivers. The eight-strong team is made up of Muslim and Christian women aged 18 to 39.
Not only are they challenging their male counterparts on the track, but also the often conservative nature of Middle Eastern society.
They recently competed in their first race as a team on what has always been a male-dominated circuit.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2010/07/100707_outlook_speedsisters.shtmlNPR: In The West Bank, Women With A Need For Speed
July 2, 2010 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Sheera Frenkel
At a small dusty field just outside the West Bank city of Ramallah, mostly male spectators cheer and wave flags as a car speeds though a turn on the racetrack.
The car comes to a halt and the racer, 24-year-old Mona Ennab, jumps out. When she slides off her helmet and smiles at the crowd, it’s not hard to see why she was a contestant for Miss Palestine, the West Bank’s beauty pageant.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128214423ABC News: Palestinian Women Racing Cars in the West Bank
June 29, 2010 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Simon McGregor-Wood
They call themselves the Speed Sisters. Eight young Palestinian women in the West bank town of Ramallah racing cars.
It’s not what you expect in what remains a male-dominated and traditional society. But things are changing in parts of Palestine, and nowhere more so than on the makeshift dusty race track on the outskirts of Ramallah where the Speed Sisters strut their stuff.
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/palestinian-women-racing-cars-west-bank/story?id=11040448Al Jazeera: Ramallah’s Need for Speed
June 26, 2010 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Bernard Smith
Al JazeeraAn all female motor-racing team is challenging stereotypes in the West Bank.
The ‘Speed Sisters’ have been rally-driving in Ramallah for more than a year.
+ Read more…Guardian: Palestine’s Speed Sisters on track for race equality
June 18, 2010 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Harriet Sherwood
When Suna Aweidah pulls on her red overalls and slips behind the wheel of her car next Friday, she will empty her mind of everything but the race ahead. But there will be an indelible nugget of pride that she and her team, the Speed Sisters, are breaking through the traditional conservatism of Palestinian society to compete in a motor racing event on an equal basis with men.
As she eases her Opel Corsa on to the Ramallah race track, she will block out the yells of “Suna, yallah!” (“Let’s go!”), and focus on the map of the course she has memorised, and the techniques she has learned from British instructors.
“When I’m racing, I feel freedom. I love speed. When I’m on the track I can break the rules,” she said.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/18/palestine-speed-sisters-raceBBC News: Palestine’s ‘Speed Sisters’ driving change in West Bank
June 10, 2010 | Posted By: SocDoc Studios | Media Coverage |by Jon Donnison
A group of Palestinian women are pushing into one of the most male-dominated sports, motor racing.
The Speed Sisters are pushing their way into the Nablus speed-testing circuit, supported by the British government.
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