Lynsey Addario: Women in the Muslim World

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Lynsey Addario: Women in the Muslim World

With the news Sunday that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia will grant women the right to vote and to run for political office, we looked to the work of the …

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/09/lynsey-addario-women.html

Addario made her first trip to Saudi Arabia in 2004. “My only image of the women was in the all-encompassing abayas,” she said. “I never could have anticipated the intelligent, educated, and fashionable women I met over the course of that year.”