Freedom & Identity: Jordan to the US 

By Abhilasha Khatri

“You can’t be a free woman in a society that doesn’t condemn that.”  

Stock image to represent interviewee. It features a young woman with dark hair wearing a white headscarf, holding a book and looking to her side, smiling.

A woman from Jordan shares how she migrated to attend college in the US, where she ended up staying long-term. She discusses the danger that women face in Jordan, and how living in the US helped her navigate her mixed Jordanian and Venezuelan identity.  

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