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LISTENING 7. Trousers woman' in Islamic World

  1. Find out the meaning of the following words and word combinations: to show the courage, to defy, to rebel, head-to-toes Islamic niqab, to flog smb a number of lashes, slacks
  2. Listen to the story and answer the questions.

1) What country is Lubna Hussein from? What is she said to continue to campaign for outside her country?

2) What ban did she defy when leaving her country?

3) What book did she publish? Did she write it in her own language?

4) What did she describe in this book?

5) Why was she arrested in a Khartoum restaurant?

6) What punishment was she initially sentenced to? How did the authorities have to change it under the pressure of publicity?

7) What is another case close to hers Lubna Hussein mentions? Why the teenage girl was flogged 50 lashes?

8) Why does Lubna Hussein believe that the girl’s case is direct violation of human rights?

9) What does Ms Hussein accuse the Sudanese authorities of and why?

10) How many women are reported to have been arrested that year?


[1] Petrol station

[2] Второй Иерусалимский Храм (516 до н. э. — 70 н. э.) — Храм, начало восстановления которого было положено в правление Кира Великого, реконструированный Иродом Великим и разрушенный после штурма Иерусалима в ходе Первой Иудейской войны римской армией, во главе с Титом.


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