Middle eastern women, do you feel free, are you able to do what you want?

Question

Hello ladies from middle eastern countries, I'd like to get educated on your life stile. From my perspective it doesn't look like you have much freedom but I really can't know that so I ask you. Are there any things you'd like to be able to do that you can't at present because of religious or cultural impositions?

I know there are great variations from country to country and what some women can do in certain countries other can't and so on. Do you have like a wish lists taht you'd like yourself and other women in other countries to be able to do? Like, I'd like for all of us to be able to vot, or I'd like for all of us to be able to drivea a car or go out by myself. I don't know things like that...

Thanks to those who responded, the ones that know middle eastern women. I unfortunatelly don't know any. I am a Mexican woman, and I am genuinely interested in other cultures, love peoples and languages. Do not seek to judge anyone, just tolearn.

Answer 1

I teach Middle Eastern History and worked and lived in Saudi Arabia in towns for years. There are many misconceptions about Middle Eastern women. They have quite a few rights and power. At marriage the wife is presented a house and furniture. That is hers. The woman also runs the house. The husband in charge outside the house. In Iran the Islamic Revolution was really by women. Women educated in the US and Europe. And dissatisfied with work opportunities launched the revolt. Women are behind all the male leaders and clerics. Also women are behind religion and worship just as in Christian faiths. Men are the heads of worship, but women are the ones that get them to attend.

But, no they do not have the same freedoms as American and European women. And in spite of being allowed 4 wives, there are few takers other than royalty or extremely wealthy. And then at the urging of the current wife. I think Islamic countries would take a great leap forward economically with more employment opportunities for women.

The only way to really understand the Islamic people and culture is to live in it for a year or so.

Off topic on Arab men. Their minds are like computers. They memorize everything they read and they mentally calculate math better and faster than I could with a calculator and books. A co worker Arab borrowed my Bible. Returned it a week later. He had memorized it.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

the middle east area ,as you said , consists of too many countries. You can't collect them all together & ask for this survy.

As far as I know : no one is preventing women from voting ,but they are not used to participate in political life.

All women in the Arab counries can drive exept in Saudi Arabia.

I'd like to ask you which kind of freedom (either than you mentioned) do you mean ??

I've never felt that I am not free.

Answer 4

Do you really want to get educated on their lifestyle, or do you want to patronise people of a different culture and religion. This smacks of cultural racism.

You would find that middle eastern women on the whole would despise western women and their lifestyles. They abhor the lack of family values in western women. They abhor the wanton promiscuity of western women and lack of modesty. They are perplexed at why there is so little respect for men in the west.

Answer 5

Good luck getting answers here from middle eastern ladies...I doubt they're even allowed to be on the internet...I'm not being sarcastic, I'm serious. Who knows? Perhaps you can find someone who's lived in the Middle East and now lives somewhere else to answer this question?

Anyway, I hope you get answers because it's an interesting question. I'd like to hear the answers.

*good luck*

Answer 6

You know I'm thinking along the same lines as
George. I know these women myself and I know exactly what they think of you American women; what they think is not very polite at all. Having an Arab sister-in-law has taught me much, having some Arab friends along the way has taught me even more and they do not think too much of you women at all; trust me. Want to know what I think you don't give a damn about what freedom they have or don't have; oh I suppose you want to take pity on them per usual. It is they who pity you. Oh yes they do, three-fold.