سُعَادُ حِدِيدُو تَقُودُ سَيَّارَةَ أُجْرَةٍ فِي الرِّبَاطِ، عَاصِمَةِ الْمَغْرِبِ. عُمْرُهَا ثَلَاثٌ وَثَلَاثُونَ سَنَةً. وَفِي سَنَةِ ٢٠٢١، كَانَتِ الْمَرْأَةَ الْوَحِيدَةَ فِي هَذَا الْعَمَلِ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ. وَفِي الْمَغْرِبِ كُلِّهِ، السَّائِقَاتُ قَلِيلَاتٌ. فِي الْبِدَايَةِ، كَانَتْ سُعَادُ سَائِقَةَ شَاحِنَةٍ. كَانَتْ تَعْمَلُ فِي شَرِكَةٍ لِلسَّمَكِ بَعْدَ أَنْ تَرَكَتِ الْمَدْرَسَةَ. ثُمَّ صَارَتْ سَائِقَةَ سَيَّارَةِ أُجْرَةٍ. فَالْمَالُ فِي هَذَا الْعَمَلِ أَكْثَرُ، وَالْحُرِّيَّةُ أَكْبَرُ. وَالْيَوْمَ تَدْفَعُ ثَمَنَ شَقَّتِهَا قُرْبَ الرِّبَاطِ، وَتُسَاعِدُ عَائِلَتَهَا فِي الْقَرْيَةِ. سَيَّارَةُ سُعَادَ زَرْقَاءُ، وَهِيَ نَظِيفَةٌ جِدًّا. وَرَائِحَتُهَا جَمِيلَةٌ مِنَ الدَّاخِلِ. وَفِيهَا قَلْبٌ صَغِيرٌ عَلَيْهِ كَلِمَاتٌ دِينِيَّةٌ. وَهِيَ تَقُودُ فِي شَوَارِعِ الْمَدِينَةِ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ. عِنْدَ سُعَادَ زَبَائِنُ كَثِيرُونَ. تَقُولُ: الْأُمَّهَاتُ يَثِقْنَ بِي، وَأَنَا آخُذُ أَطْفَالَهُنَّ مِنَ الْمَدْرَسَةِ. وَفِي اللَّيْلِ، تَتَّصِلُ بِهَا نِسَاءٌ كَثِيرَاتٌ. فَهُنَّ يَشْعُرْنَ بِالرَّاحَةِ مَعَهَا. وَتَقُولُ نُهَيْلَةُ، وَهِيَ زَبُونَةٌ: نَحْتَاجُ إِلَى سَائِقَاتٍ أَكْثَرَ. مَعَهَا أَتَكَلَّمُ فِي الْهَاتِفِ بِحُرِّيَّةٍ. كَانَتْ فِي الرِّبَاطِ سَبْعُ سَائِقَاتٍ، لَكِنَّهُنَّ تَوَقَّفْنَ عَنِ الْعَمَلِ، إِلَّا سُعَادَ. وَالْعَمَلُ لَيْسَ سَهْلًا، فَأَكْثَرُ مَالِهَا يَذْهَبُ لِلرُّخْصَةِ وَالسَّيَّارَةِ. وَتَحْلُمُ سُعَادُ بِعَمَلٍ فِي النَّقْلِ بَيْنَ الْبُلْدَانِ. وَهِيَ الْآنَ تَأْخُذُ رُخَصًا جَدِيدَةً لِلْقِيَادَةِ. تَضْحَكُ وَتَقُولُ: هَذِهِ حَيَاةُ سُعَادَ!
Souad Hdidou drives a taxi in Rabat, the capital of Morocco. She is thirty-three years old. And in 2021 she was the only woman doing this job in the city. And in all of Morocco, women drivers are few. At the beginning, Souad was a truck driver. She worked for a fish company after she left school. Then she became a taxi driver. Because there is more money in this job, and more freedom. And today she is paying off her flat near Rabat, and she helps her family in the village. Souad’s car is blue, and it is very clean. And it smells nice inside. And in it there is a small heart with religious words on it. And she drives in the city streets every day. Souad has many customers. She says: mothers trust me, and I pick up their children from school. And at night, many women call her. Because they feel comfortable with her. And Nouhila, a customer, says: we need more women drivers. With her I can talk freely on the phone. There were seven women taxi drivers in Rabat, but they all stopped wor