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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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Less than a week ahead of Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, the main roads and roundabouts in the country’s north are splattered with slogans and self-confident smiles - but few seem to have won over voters in Sunni-majority districts. That’s cause for concern for anti-Hezbollah candidates, who fear that widespread disillusionment and the splintering of the traditional Sunni political leadership could pave the way for Hezbollah-aligned candidates to score. What does that mean for the makeup of Lebanon’s next parliament, and the major decisions the body will take in the months ahead? Full @reuters story in the link in my bio.
This is retired judge Nadim Abdelmalak, the head of Lebanon’s election supervisory committee, a body with the seemingly impossible task of ensuring integrity in candidates’ campaigns. Despite a sub-par law, few enforcement mechanisms and myriad opportunities for bribes given Lebanon’s economic crisis, Abdelmalak is determined to do his job.
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