Why Women Matter in the Middle East
Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Isobel Coleman traveled across the Middle East, Africa and Asia for her book, Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East. Touching down in conflicted, struggling cities around the globe, Coleman finds women working for reform, adapting feminism to their particular cultural and religious mores. In the excerpt below, Coleman, a past Zócalo guest, reveals how Somali women kept Mogadishu fed during a brutal and ongoing civil war.
Across the dusty Mogadishu courtyard, the Somali women shouted instructions to each other as …
