Two Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl

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🗓️ 8 June 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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For two years, Majd Abdulghani recorded an audio diary of her life in Saudi Arabia. The Radio Diaries project presents her story, told in her voice.

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0:00.0	I'm Bob Garfield with an OTP
0:02.0	podcast Extra. This week, we want to share with you a piece that we
0:06.4	really liked from our friends at Radio Diaries.
0:10.6	It's a personal, revealing, surprising story told by a teen from a region that
0:16.1	usually gets discussed only in terms of oil and conflict.
0:23.3	Here's host Joe Richmond with the details.
0:28.8	People often ask us how we find our diarists. There are a lot of different answers to that question,
0:31.3	but it usually doesn't happen like this.
0:37.2	And today we're also announcing a search for new teenage diarists on all things considered. A while back, we launched a contest with NPR to find a new diarist for our series
0:41.3	Teenage Diaries.
0:42.9	The idea was to find a completely unexpected story, someone we never would have come across
0:47.3	on our own.
0:48.7	And that's exactly what happened.
0:50.6	We received close to a thousand submissions from around the world, and in the end, we chose this one.
0:56.4	Hello, listener.
0:58.2	This is Mijd.
0:59.7	I live in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and I turned 19 today.
1:04.2	That's Majd Abduqani.
1:06.4	And to tell you more about Mazzed and her story, I'm going to hand this microphone over to my co-producer here at Radio Diaries, Sarah Kramer. Thanks. Okay. First, some background. So, Saudi Arabia
1:18.3	is one of the most restrictive countries in the world for women. You might know a couple of things
1:24.0	about Saudi women, that they wear black obayas and veils, and you've probably
1:28.3	heard they're not allowed to drive. What you might not know is that there are now more women
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