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Women's Rights in the Arab World
Middle East Focus
English - February 01, 2018 16:08 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsNews Government middleeast foreignpolicy internationalnews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Nowhere in the world are women more unequal than in the Middle East and North Africa, but there have been signs of progress in the region and several key reforms took place in 2017, such as Saudi Arabia’s decision to lift the ban on women driving. Manal Omar, founder of Across Red Lines, and Hala Aldosari, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, join guest host Kate Seelye to discuss these reforms and whether they signal real change in attitudes toward women's rights in the region.