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Until I create a chronological thread of my opeds on #Saudi Arabia, here’s a collection of them starting from 2002. In many I use gender apartheid to describe the way women are treated. #EndMaleGuardianship
I’ve been writing about repression of women in #Saudi Arabia for 16yrs. I lived there during my teens & was traumatized into feminism there, I wrote a column for a Saudi-owned paper for 2yrs & was then banned, I devoted a chapter in my 1st book to it. We have a long relationship.
The unprecedented crackdown on women’s rights activists must be seen for what it is: an attempt to erase cross-generational feminist activism in #Saudi Arabia. The detained feminists and women’s rights activist are leaders of a social revolution that terrifies the #Saudi monarchy When this decade began, there was no political revolution in Saudi Arabia like those in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries of the “Arab Spring.” But a social revolution has begun now in Saudi Arabia.<br />
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Its vanguard is not a crown prince who claims to be an emancipator of women. The true leaders are the feminists he has detained and banned from travel for daring to demand their freedom.
👆🏽 is from my most recent column about #Saudi Arabia, about the detention at the order of Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman of women’s rights activists who’ve long fought to #EndMaleGuardianship. I regularly insist you remember them and demand their release google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
#Saudi women’s rights activists who’ve fought to end guardianship system have been detained since May and tortured at the orders of Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman. Remember them. Demand their release.
#Saudi women’s rights activists who’ve fought to end guardianship system have been detained since May and tortured at the orders of Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman. Remember them. Demand their release.
From Rahaf Mohamed to the detained and tortured women’s rights activists: those #Saudi women and their allies are the true emancipators, the true revolutionaries, not a crown prince of an absolute monarchy
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