Reem Asaad

Reem Asaad, finance lecturer at Dar al-Hick-ma Women's College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Reem Asaad appears in the following:

How the World Sees America, 10 Years After 9/11

Thursday, September 08, 2011

Over the last decade since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, America's standing in the world has volleyed sympathetic, after the attacks, to war mongering villain to perhaps something in between since the election of Barack Obama. As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Ros Atkins, host of the BBC's World Have Your Say — which reaches 45 million people around the globe — has been talking to people all over the world to gauge foreign opinion of the U.S.

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Fight for your right to buy underwear privately

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Women are prohibited from doing many things in Saudi Arabia, among them driving and being alone with a man they are not related to. How do women there decide what freedoms are worth fighting for? Reem Asaad, a finance lecturer at Dar al-Hikma Women's College in Jeddah joins The Takeaway with the story of an unusual campaign she is leading to defend the right of women to buy their lingerie from other women, because currently only men can sell women's underwear. Ms. Asaad joins us now from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

"This industry is living off the pockets of these women."
— Reem Asaad of Dar al-Hikma Women's College on the lingerie industry in Saudi Arabia

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