Madeha Alajroush

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Madeha Alajroush (Madiha al Alajroush) (born 1955 ) is a Saudi Arabian photographer , feminist, and psychoanalyst .

Live and act

Madeha Alajrosh is the daughter of a diplomat and lived in New York as a young woman . She completed training as a psychoanalyst. As the only psychoanalyst in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , she initially treated women with clinically relevant disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder . In recent years, however, women who suffer from conflicts related to changes in social conditions have also come to treatment. Due to the improved career opportunities for women and the existence of their own income , they can finance the treatment themselves.

As the best-known photographer in her country, she stages subjects for large-format pictures. The motifs are the Saudi Arabian landscape and people, often women and children. In terms of color, the play with the various shades of a desert yellow dominates, sometimes contrasted with a bright color. Her works include images of Bedouin life as well as urban life.

Madeha Alajroush became known through various activities related to women's rights in Saudi Arabia. For the first time in 1990 she broke the ban on driving women, which u. a. was punished with the reaction that she was called a prostitute in the mosques and her work as a photographer was publicly burned. In 2014, the renewed campaign of driving a car as a woman received worldwide media coverage. In September 2017, the international press reported that, on an initiative by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the ban on women driving a car was to be lifted and that further reforms for women's rights were to be legally formulated shortly. Madeha Alajroush emphasized in an interview that this was a significant step because the driving ban for women was a publicly visible symbol that stood for further suppressed human rights of women, something within families or in court in Saudi Arabia .

In 2005, Alajroush founded the National Family Safety Program , which works against violence in families. Special goals include a. the prevention of child abuse and neglect of children in families.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Koelbl: The melody of freedom . Der Spiegel No. 19 of May 6, 2017, pp. 82-85
  2. ↑ Alajrosh's website as a photographer. Retrieved June 7, 2017
  3. ↑ Madeha Alajroush on Pinterest . Retrieved June 7, 2017
  4. ↑ Saudi Arabia: Woman Power . In: Das Erste , April 15, 2014, accessed May 29, 2017.
  5. ↑ Al Nafjan This year let's celebrate… the Saudi women's driving campaign in The Guardian . Retrieved May 29, 2017
  6. ↑ Anna Osius, ARD-Studio Cairo for the ARD Tagesschau from September 27, 2017. Accessed on September 29, 2017
  7. ↑ The Guardian, September 27, 2017 . Retrieved September 29, 2017
  8. ↑ Euronews of September 27, 2017 . Retrieved September 28, 2017
  9. ↑ Madeha Alajroush at BR on September 27, 2017 . Retrieved September 28, 2017
  10. ^ Obama to meet woman activist on Saudi visit in Middle East Institute. Retrieved May 29, 2017
  11. ↑ M. Almuneef, M. Al-Eissa: Preventing child abuse and neglect in Saudi Arabia: are we ready? In: Annals of Saudi medicine. Volume 31, number 6, 2011 Nov-Dec, pp. 635-640, doi : 10.4103 / 0256-4947.87102 , PMID 22048511 , PMC 3221137 (free full text) (review).

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SURNAME Alajroush, Madeha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES al Alajroush, Madiha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saudi Arabian photographer, feminist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH 1955