Zainab Salbi Quotes - Page 3

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• I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.

  Zainab Salbi

  Husband, Believe, Progress

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Women in the Arab world have a rich history in their active participation in political change from the Algeria revolution against the French occupation to the most recent revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya among other countries. The question is not their participation. Their question is the incorporation of women's voices fully in the new definitions of the countries where change has happened.

  Zainab Salbi

  Country, Voice, Egypt

  "'War is Just a Microcosm of Peace' – an Interview With Zainab Salbi". Interview with Eva Fernndez Ortiz, truthout.org. June 7, 2011.

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• Growing up under Saddam's rule, I witnessed many injustices occurring everyday in my country and yet I could not do anything to prevent them.

  Zainab Salbi

  Country, Growing Up, Everyday

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.

  Zainab Salbi

  Country, Troops

  "'War Is Just a Microcosm of Peace' – an Interview With Zainab Salbi". Interview with Eva Fernndez Ortiz, www.truth-out.org. June 7, 2011.

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• I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

  Zainab Salbi

  Mean, Challenges, Culture

  "Women Lean in Worldwide" by Zainab Salbi, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2013.

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• While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

  Zainab Salbi

  Hair, Together, May

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• The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.

  Zainab Salbi

  War, Eye, Space

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• When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.

  Zainab Salbi

  Daughter, Mother, War

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