{"id":29014,"date":"2019-01-14T01:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T01:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29014"},"modified":"2019-01-14T01:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T01:23:02","slug":"what-does-rahafs-case-say-about-social-reform-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29014","title":{"rendered":"What does Rahaf&#8217;s case say about social reform in Saudi Arabia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"75\">\n<p>Teenager Rahaf al-Qunun has grabbed the world\u2019s attention for defying a strict social code in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>She said she feared for her life if she was returned home and launched a twitter campaign from her hotel room in Thailand pleading for help.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations granted her refugee status and Canada offered her asylum and a new home.<\/p>\n<p>Her case may complicate already strained relations with Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Canada had previously angered Riyadh by calling for the release of women\u2019s rights activists from Saudi jails.<\/p>\n<p>Will this encourage other women to speak up, or will more try and follow her out of the country?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter<\/strong><span>: Nick Clark<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Noha Abou-el-dahab &#8211; Visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center.<br \/>Bessma Momani &#8211; Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo <br \/>Omaima Al Najjar &#8211; A Saudi political refugee who fled the country in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenager Rahaf al-Qunun has grabbed the world\u2019s attention for defying a strict social code in Saudi Arabia. She said she feared for her life if she was returned home and launched a twitter campaign from her hotel room in Thailand pleading for help. The United Nations granted her refugee status and Canada offered her asylum&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}