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So I dropped in that evening at the Women's Center, and over a glass of tea I told Moza about the math and science classes. Within a week or two, we on the committee got a directive from above instructing us to drop this scheme. (278)
Ahmed finds herself having to work the primarily male system in Abu Dhabi in order to keep the ideal of equal education for women in play. She taps into a quiet source of power and influence: local women. Although the women have to exert their influence through the men in their lives, they can and do. It turns out that the struggle is less men vs. women and more local vs. outsiders. Ahmed finds that mobilizing the local community is the best way to keep power in the proper hands.