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Tharwa Boulifi is a 15-year-old high school student who loves reading books, writing novels and articles and listening to music.
The school dress code rules in Tunisia are discriminatory, these girls say. “Why can boys feel comfortable in their casual clothes while we girls have to wear this smock?” one says.
A high school theater piece in Tunisia reveals what girls there consider the double victimization of rape. “I think it’s time for the Tunisian society to understand that a shotgun marriage will never be the solution for rape,” one girl says.
One girl didn’t want to change out of her shorts to leave her house in Tunisia when she went to buy chips. “I felt like a cultural prisoner,” she says.