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Arab women entrepreneurs defy odds with leap into sportswear

March 8, 2022March 10, 2022 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on March 8, 2022]

BEIRUT, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nathaly Daou zigzags through an underground fabric store in Beirut, pulling out bolts of neon Lycra and patterned polyester before settling on a roll of white cotton.

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Syrian refugee girls face ‘dangerous’ child marriage trend, says charity

June 25, 2021June 28, 2021 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on June 25, 2021]

BEIRUT, June 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Syrian refugee girls are increasingly at risk of child marriage due to a surge in pandemic-linked poverty, legal loopholes and long-term displacement in countries across the Middle East and North Africa, charity Save the Children said on Friday.

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‘Revenge porn,’ leaked selfies: sextortion spreads in Iraq | AFP

November 20, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on November 20, 2019]

Baghdad (AFP) – The threat came by anonymous Instagram message one late Iraqi evening, making Hala’s blood run cold: “I’ve got all your pictures and recordings. Shall I send them to your dad?”

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Yazidi doctor soldiers on in mental battle against IS | AFP

March 13, 2019April 4, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here March 13, 2019]

Dohuk (Iraq) (AFP) – The military fight against the Islamic State group may be nearing an end, but one Yazidi doctor treating survivors is soldiering on against unseen scars the jihadists carved into her community.

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Lebanon activists ramp up pressure on reviled rape law | AFP

April 22, 2017May 21, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on April 22, 2017]

Beirut (AFP) – Lebanese activists ramped up their campaign to scrap a controversial law allowing rapists who marry their victims to go free, with a dramatic installation on Saturday along Beirut’s sunny seaside.

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I’ve reached the highlight of my career: figuring out ways to eat my way to a story. But really - tracing Doha’s transformation through the stories of a few of its famous eateries was both eye-opening and mouthwatering. The city’s oldest restaurateurs told me how gentrification forced them to move locations, an explosion in the worker presence expanded their customer base and their smashing of taboos created new social spaces. Read the story in my bio and slide into my DMs for recommendations.
Like any country, Qatar is a complicated place, with complicated stories and complicated stratifications. An ultra-bright spotlight has been shown on the country and its rights record since it won hosting rights to FIFA’s World Cup 2022 - but the floodlights have sometimes missed the details.
This ball made it from Doha to a displacement camp in northern Syria, where kids pushed out of their homes by more than a decade of war played a few matches with it, and circled back to Qatar in time for the #worldcup2022 kickoff on Sunday.
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