In July of 2020, a 30 year-old woman named Ahlam was beaten up and killed by her father in Jordan in what has come to be known as an ‘honour killing.’ Fast forward two years later, news broke in Egypt that a 21 year-old woman named Naiyera was murdered in cold blood outside of her university after refusing a marriage proposal. Only a day later, another Jordanian woman named Iman was murdered by her harasser, also in her university campus, after he sent her a threatening text which read, “Tomorrow, I will come to talk to you, and if you reject me, I will kill you, just like the Egyptian killed the girl today.\u201d\u00a0 Whilst the latter two heinous crimes may not be considered an honour killing, all three brutal murders, as well as several others in parts of the Middle East and South Asia, are results of the same root problem: the ancestral dehumanisation and discrimination of women.<\/p>\n
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