Video: Amira al-Tawil - the princess who shatters stereotypes about women in Saudi Arabia
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Princess Amira at-Tawil is not like what women in Muslim countries are imagined to be. She does not wear traditional abaya clothes that cover her head, arms and legs, she calls on the rulers of Saudi Arabia to give women more rights, and moreover, she divorced the prince of her own free will!
Amira at-Tawil (Princess Ameera al-Taweel) was born on November 6, 1983 in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. The girl was brought up in an incomplete family - by her mother and her parents. As life has shown, happy accidents can happen to any of us, so Amira, being an ordinary girl, once met Prince Al-Walid ibn Talal when she was interviewing for a school newspaper. Despite the difference of 28 years, the prince and Amira got married during the same year.
For Amira, this was the first marriage, while the prince already had two wives before, from whom he had two children. What exactly caused the divorce in 2013 is not known for certain: some say that the stumbling block was the prohibition for Amira to have a child, others believe that the girl's too free morals were contrary to the worldview of the royal family. One way or another, but even after the divorce, Amira is still called a princess, because how she behaves, how she presents herself, what problems she tries to solve - this is all true at the level of royal families.
Today, Princess Amira is vice chairman of the Alwaleed Philanthropies and is also a member of the board of trustees of the Silatech social organization in Qatar. These organizations strive to cope with the problems of poverty, help people in different countries to deal with the consequences of natural disasters, and also try to establish interfaith dialogue to empower women.
Despite her rather luxurious lifestyle, Princess Amira at-Tawil knows very well how powerless the position of a woman in Saudi Arabia is: without the permission of her husband or father, women of this country have no right to work, cannot get a higher education, cannot dress like they want to, but for ordinary driving they can be arrested and sent to jail. Amira tries to show by her own example that a different life is possible for women. Moreover, Amira has visited more than 70 countries around the world, in which she held a number of meetings aimed at improving the image of a Saudi woman.
Amira is only 33 years old, but she has already done quite a lot: when the floods hit Pakistan, her center helped the victims of the disaster and organized schools to help local children get a decent education. Together with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, she opened the Center for Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge. Amira headed a humanitarian mission in Somalia that provided assistance to the local population. The girl regularly calls on the mainstream media to support the movement to empower Saudi women. Its motto is "Evolution, not revolution."
Princess Amira is really completely different from the general idea of women in Saudi Arabia, and who knows, maybe she really will be able to achieve her goal and change the established ideas about the position of women in the society of this country. At least with her tenacity, it seems she can achieve it.
But about what Diana, Princess of Wales was, read in our article. "Not by protocol: 'the people's princess' who defied the prim customs of the British court."
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