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Nimat entered an arranged marriage as a teenager and endured years of sexual abuse. Now in Germany, she’s rebuilding her life and relationship with her body.
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Nimat entered an arranged marriage as a teenager and endured years of sexual abuse. Now in Germany, she’s rebuilding her life and relationship with her body.
. Read the original article, published in Arabic, . Born in Homs in 1979, Lina Barakat grew up in an open-minded family. She studied French literature at Al-Baath University in Homs, later obtaining a master’s degree and working as a teaching assistant. She has long had an interest in women’s issues. Her interest emanated not only from her own experiences, but also from the experiences of other women around her. “Our society has a condescending perception of women...even if women grow up within an understanding and liberal family,” Barakat tells SyriaUntold. “At the family an...