Nadia Al-Sakkaf on Nujood Ali

Special to MENASSAT, Nadia Al-Sakkaf, editor in chief of the Yemen Times, writes about her newspaper being the only one in Yemen to take up the case of Nujood Ali, the 10-year-old girl who fought her way out of a marriage to a man more than three times her age, before it became a huge international story. "The point is not about what the international media is doing with our local stories," she says. "It is what we are doing with them."

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