Shaimaa Khalil

Two women. Two cultures. And a friendship that freed them both.​ ‘We don’t choose where we’re born. Geography ends up being everything.’ Shaimaa Khalil and Shelley Davidow met twenty years ago in the Middle East when Shaimaa was Shelley’s student at the University of Qatar. Strangers in a strange land where the silencing and oppression of women are deeply entrenched,...