Pedal power inspires Iraqi women
By Agence France-Presse in Baghdad | China Daily | Updated: 2017-02-11 07:15
Baghdad bike brigade helping participants rediscover rights
Her name is Marina Jaber but to many she is "the girl on the bike", a young Baghdad artist inspiring Iraqi women to exercise their rights one pedal at a time.
In Iraq's conservative society, the young woman cuts an unusual figure when she rides her red bicycle in the streets of the capital, her long black hair swaying in the wind.
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