![]() ![]() She was held up as a hero and a pint-sized reformer who would pave the way for change. ![]() ![]() Nujood’s story was reported across the globe, and she was even hailed as Glamour magazine’s Woman of the Year in 2008, coming to New York to receive an award alongside Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice. It was a bold gesture tailor-made for a splashy story in the media - especially for women’s rights organizations. The story became world famous when Nujood did something absolutely nobody expected, even herself: She went to the local courthouse to demand a divorce. Her memoir, “I Am Nujood: Age 10 and Divorced,” co-written with French journalist Delphine Minoui, revisits in painful detail that day, and the weeks of harrowing abuse that followed it. “I advanced slowly, doing my best to avoid tripping over my outfit, which was too big for me and dragged on the ground.” “My wedding ceremony, which began at lunchtime, was quickly over,” Nujood Ali writes of the day she became a 10-year-old bride in Sana’a, Yemen. Nujood in court with attorney Shada Nasser, her husband Faez (left) and father Mohammed (right). ![]()
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