In a Muslim-majority region where women are often marginalized from politics, women have taken an unusually prominent role in Western Sahara’s independence movement against Moroccan rule. Female activists attribute the phenomenon to a combination of the indigenous Sahrawi population’s moderate interpretation of Islam and the freedom they derive from their nomadic roots — but also, perhaps counter-intuitively, to the prevalence of traditional gender roles, which they say give women the time to demonstrate...
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:56:03 +0000