A Womans Experience in Jordan

http://triggersandsparks.com/blog/single-white-female-middle-east/

I chose this blog post because of a very personal experience the author shares with her audience. The author, who clearly wishes to remain anonymous, describes her story in Jordan. She is walking along, and a young boy approaches her. Thinking she is about to be robbed, she guards her belongings, only to be touched inappropriately. After the incident, she pretends to be invisible, shreds of her dignity left intact, and she continues along. She explains how violated she feels, and then goes on to say that she has been sexually violated elsewhere, even in her own country. In the rest of her blog, she discusses how the Arab World and the Western World are drastically different. She talks about walking around in a knee length skirt and being stared at in disgust as though she were public property, with no rights of her own. Though this blog post isn’t terribly recent, it is from just a couple of years ago, which means that women still have very little rights. She seems disgusted at the idea that a man still has the right to decide whether or not his wife can hold a job, that honor killings are still present, and that the Jordanian legal system is still based upon the old laws. Jordanian law states that a woman’s testimony is worth half of a mans, that divorce is in the man’s control and that women still have very little rights compared to a man. It is a primary source from someone who recently had an experience in the Middle East and wanted her readers to know about life and their culture.