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Jordan Mothers Hope for Full Citizenship Rights

By Farah Maraqa ● Politics ● January 20, 2015

“I feel that I am a citizen with a quarantined identity. I cannot pass it on to anyone,” says a woman married to a man who is not Jordanian. The government’s late-December reform disappointed her and other activists.

Jordan Activists Profile ‘Honor’ Killing Victims

By Farah Maraqa ● Uncategorized ● April 28, 2014

In Jordan, critics are finding shortfalls in the local press coverage of a March “honor” killing. To fill the void in reporting, one advocacy group, No Honor in Crime, publishes profiles of the victims to humanize them in ways local press reports do not.

In Egypt, Detention of Female Students Drags On

By Farah Maraqa ● Uncategorized ● March 21, 2014

The appeal date for the Al-Azhar University students is postponed to April 2. The young women were detained in what is being described as the biggest roundup of Egyptians in two decades; AP reports an unofficial detention figure of 16,000.

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