(CNN) -- 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.
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Speed Sisters became first all-female Palestinian motor racing team in 2009
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At 23, Noor Daoud is first Arab woman to race on the international circuit in Dubai, Japan and Poland
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Maysoon Jayyusi serves on FIA's Women in Motorsport Commission
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