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May 2020
10m 35s

Sarah's Story Part II

Real Arabic
About this episode

Last week, we told the story of Sarah, a Lebanese woman who braved family pressure to stop wearing the hijab. This week, we share an interview with Sarah where she talked about the reaction to the story when she published it on Freethought Lebanon, the power of extended family in Lebanese culture, and the future.

Thank you to Amer's cousin Lama for recording this episode with us. Her accent is from Suweida, in the South of Syria.

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