Who is Nujood Ali?
Meet Nujood Ali, the Yemeni child bride who helped Glamour Magazine, Hillary Clinton, Vital Voices.org, Too Young to Wed and many other international women’s aid organizations raise millions of dollars and obtain incalculable publicity for their “good works.”
When did Nujood Ali get a divorce?
At the age of ten, she obtained a divorce, breaking with the tribal tradition. In November 2008, the U.S. women’s magazine Glamour designated Nujood Ali as Women of the Year, and associated her lawyer Shada Nasser to the same tribute.
What does Nujood Ali think of Hillary Clinton?
Nujood Ali thinks Clinton will end the Obama-backed war currently devastating her country. Nujood Ali on the day she and Hillary Clinton first met in 2008. WASHINGTON ― In 2008, Nujood Ali’s family forced her to marry an abusive man three times her age.
What happened to Ali Nojoom?
As of June 2015, Ali, now sixteen, has unofficially changed her name from Nujood, which means “hidden,” to Nojoom, which means “stars in the sky.” According to the Huffington Post, she married in 2014 and now has two girls. Her education wasn’t advanced as originally planned.