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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Mon Jul 31, 2017, 12:43 PM Jul 2017

A million miles away behind her own front door: A Saudi woman's secret apartment

Maha Almutairi has a secret apartment.

At 35, like most unmarried Saudi women, she still officially lives at home. Her father decides what can and can’t happen in his home. Decisions about what she will study, where she will work, all are subject to her father’s permission.

Can she have cats? Not anywhere in the apartment building her father owns, he ruled, even though Almutairi has long loved rescuing strays and hiding them in her room.

Could she travel abroad to study medicine? No, her father said, not without a male relative to accompany her. She gave up on being a doctor and signed up to study interior design at a school in Riyadh.

more
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-saudi-apartment-2017-story.html

Part 1 of the series
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029392062

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A million miles away behind her own front door: A Saudi woman's secret apartment (Original Post) n2doc Jul 2017 OP
K&R demmiblue Jul 2017 #1

demmiblue

(36,743 posts)
1. K&R
Mon Jul 31, 2017, 01:04 PM
Jul 2017

The opening quote is just perfect.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done — then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett, “The Secret Garden”


Maha Almutairi is badass.
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