These exiled women can’t go home, but they don’t want your pity — they want your solidarity:
Moudi Aljohani escaped from Saudi Arabia after being locked up by her family. Masih Alinejad was kicked out of Iran. Even in exile, they’re both still working to bring change to their homelands.Masih Alinejad , Iranian women's rights activist and campaigner against compulsory hijab, and Moudi Aljohani, Saudi activist, speak with Lydia Polgreen at The 2019 Women In The World Summit in New York City on April 12, 2019.
Alinejad has been speaking up for years. “I got kicked out of school for asking too many questions,” she said on Friday at the 10th annual Women in the World Summit in New York City, where she joined Saudi activist Aljohani and moderator Lydia Polgreen, Editor-in-Chief of HuffPost, to talk about life in exile. “I became a journalist and got kicked out of Parliament for asking too many questions. I was a columnist, I got kicked out of the newspaper.
“I left Saudi Arabia, left M.B.S. [Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman]. Now I’m trapped here with Trump. Is there any place for me?” she asked.
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