Driving with the Arabian Gazelles, Dubai’s all-female supercar club
Not that long ago, Hanan Mazouzi Sobati faced flagrant sexism at track days in Dubai. An ardent petrolhead, Sobati would go to drive her sports car fast — really fast — but many of the overwhelmingly male drivers couldn’t see past her gender. “They always thought I was someone else, accompanying someone. I was just there to support him, or to sit in the passenger seat,” she recalls. “(It’s) as if they didn’t see me.”
Fellow enthusiast Jalyn Jarvi echoes the sentiment. “You pull up and they expect you to be somebody’s girlfriend or wife,” she adds. “Everybody’s staring at you and it’s a little bit uncomfortable.”
“It started hitting me that not only they don’t expect you to be there, you’re not really welcome,” says Sobati. Amid the engine noise and tire smoke, an idea was sparked — one that would become the Arabian Gazelles, Dubai’s first all-female supercar club.
To many, Dubai appears an Instagram-ready vision of superstars and fast cars; an adult Disneyland of wish fulfillment where the sun always shines. “You come here to make money,” says Jarvi, an international airline captain originally from the US. “You’re here for a reason, and you might as well enjoy it.”
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80 women and their exotic machines – Dubai’s first ever all-female supercar club is a class apart
The Arabian Gazelles: Trailblazing women who make up Dubai’s first all-female supercar club – and pose for glamorous photos with their luxury vehicles
A group of 80 women from 17 countries are part of the high-octane Arabian Gazelles supercar club in Dubai
Instagram page shows them posing for photos while sitting at the wheel in an incredible array of luxury cars
Trailblazing club says that to be able to join, you ‘have to be a supercar aficionado, and not merely a poser’
Driving with the Arabian Gazelles, Dubai’s all-female supercar club
Not that long ago, Hanan Mazouzi Sobati faced flagrant sexism at track days in Dubai. An ardent petrolhead, Sobati would go to drive her sports car fast — really fast — but many of the overwhelmingly male drivers couldn’t see past her gender. “They always thought I was someone else, accompanying someone. I was just there to support him, or to sit in the passenger seat,” she recalls. “(It’s) as if they didn’t see me.”
Fellow enthusiast Jalyn Jarvi echoes the sentiment. “You pull up and they expect you to be somebody’s girlfriend or wife,” she adds. “Everybody’s staring at you and it’s a little bit uncomfortable.”
“It started hitting me that not only they don’t expect you to be there, you’re not really welcome,” says Sobati. Amid the engine noise and tire smoke, an idea was sparked — one that would become the Arabian Gazelles, Dubai’s first all-female supercar club.
To many, Dubai appears an Instagram-ready vision of superstars and fast cars; an adult Disneyland of wish fulfillment where the sun always shines. “You come here to make money,” says Jarvi, an international airline captain originally from the US. “You’re here for a reason, and you might as well enjoy it.”
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https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/arabian-gazelles-supercar-club-dubai/index.html