Women Are Free, and Armed, in Kurdish-Controlled Northern Syria
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Women Are Free, and Armed, in Kurdish-Controlled Northern Syria
Isam Abdul Qader said that Most men don’t accept it,
but we speak to women and try to make society understand why it is not good, for instance, to have more than one wife,
"Now as you see, it is always busy here." At the Women’s House in Manbij, halls, waiting rooms
and consultation rooms were crowded with men and women — with many of the men visibly angry.
Arzu Demir said that There are always men thinking that women are slaves, but when women are an armed force, men are scared of them,
24, 2018
MANBIJ, Syria — Radwan, a 30-year-old Arab man, came with four male witnesses
and a grievance with an ex-wife to a place called the Women’s House here in Manbij, in northern Syria.
Still, the Women’s House in Manbij right away began aggressively counseling wives whose husbands married a second time
that they could divorce, and walk away with the children, the house and half of any property.
Jihan Mustafa said that When we opened the Women’s House, even we didn’t believe this was going to work here,
Women were immediately given the right to divorce, previously a right reserved to men; to inherit property on an equal basis with men;
and to keep their children and their homes in a marital breakup.
Isam Abdul Qader said that Most men don’t accept it,
but we speak to women and try to make society understand why it is not good, for instance, to have more than one wife,
"Now as you see, it is always busy here." At the Women’s House in Manbij, halls, waiting rooms
and consultation rooms were crowded with men and women — with many of the men visibly angry.
Arzu Demir said that There are always men thinking that women are slaves, but when women are an armed force, men are scared of them,
24, 2018
MANBIJ, Syria — Radwan, a 30-year-old Arab man, came with four male witnesses
and a grievance with an ex-wife to a place called the Women’s House here in Manbij, in northern Syria.
Still, the Women’s House in Manbij right away began aggressively counseling wives whose husbands married a second time
that they could divorce, and walk away with the children, the house and half of any property.
Jihan Mustafa said that When we opened the Women’s House, even we didn’t believe this was going to work here,
Women were immediately given the right to divorce, previously a right reserved to men; to inherit property on an equal basis with men;
and to keep their children and their homes in a marital breakup.