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” for Saudi women was here. But the activists who first rallied for this change are still living in fear — among them is Manal al-Sharif, author ofwho first recorded herself driving in Saudi Arabia in 2011, and who in November 2018In her memoir, Sharif paints a stark and complicated picture of the desperation of living under Saudi Arabia's system of male guardianship, that gives a woman's husband and male relatives the right to make critical decisions on her behalf.
for demanding their rights. Some women might be driving and playing football in Saudi Arabia, but feminism is not winning.Nada Murad is a Yazidi woman and a survivor of the ISIS genocide in Iraq who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for her efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.
Amina meanwhile is the first woman in Zakaria’s family to attend college when a war erupts between what was then East and West Pakistan, modern day Bangladesh and Pakistan. As Pakistan forfeits Bangladesh in “the first and only public surrender in modern military history,” Amina accepts a marriage proposal from Sohail. A decade goes by, Amina cannot have children and Sohail marries another woman — consigning his first wife to the room upstairs — the room that Zakaria later inherits.
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