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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

The Women Fleeing Saudi Arabia

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

What Mohammed bin Salman’s rise to power has meant for women in Saudi Arabia. Guest: Journalist Sarah Aziza. Read her latest reporting in the New Yorker. Tell us what you think by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sending an email to [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram for updates on the show. Podcast production by Mary Wilson and Jayson De Leon, with help from Danielle Hewitt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Sarah Aziza has reported on Saudi Arabia for years.

0:37.9

She grew up there.

0:38.9

I'm in the Middle East multiple times a year, pretty much since I was a child very, very

0:44.5

young.

0:45.6

When the story of Rahaf Muhammad, that Saudi teenager who left her family and took to

0:49.9

Twitter to seek asylum, began spreading around the internet this month.

0:53.6

I went instantly to my laptop and started following the story, following the retweets,

1:00.6

checking out the videos.

1:01.6

I speak Arabic, so some of the tweets and videos were being translated, but I was able

1:05.4

to follow Arabic Twitter as well.

1:06.9

What was significant about speaking Arabic was being able to understand her pleas in

1:16.8

real time.

1:17.8

It was very heart-wrenching.

1:18.8

She was saying, please send me back.

1:21.1

I'm fearing for my life.

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