FreshEd #316 – Islam, Yemen, and Studying Abroad (Abdulrahman Bindamnan)
FreshEd
00:00
The Liberal Tradition of Islam
Yemen in general is a very conservative country, more so than Saudi Arabia than any other country. I did not have any sisters in my home and outside of the community you never see women. So that's where I grew up. It's very different than the US, right? And so when I came to the US as some of my advisors, my professors say, they said that I have a huge culture of misnades. Like I'm coming from one place to another place and they don't talk to each other, right? You know, I just for 20 years in Yemen, I had no experience talking with women or friending them or anything like that. The challenge now
Transcript
Play full episode
