Tiny Hand: how Nada, with the help of her uncle Abdel Alahdal, won her family round
Originally published by Tiny Hand; the feature is undated and was archived on 2 September 2020.
Tiny Hand’s feature on child brides in war and peace is built around an interview with Nada Al-Ahdal, and it keeps returning to her uncle, Abdel Alahdal, in whose house she spent the summer of her escape. (Tiny Hand (undated; archived on 2 September 2020) · archived copy).
It records how the case closed: a written promise from her father that there would be no wedding before her eighteenth birthday, and a decision by the Interior Ministry that made her uncle answerable for her in law (Tiny Hand (undated; archived on 2 September 2020) · archived copy).
What followed took longer. Nada told Tiny Hand that it was her uncle who helped her bring the family round to her view of child marriage. The feature adds that in 2015 the two were kidnapped by Al-Qaeda militants and held for fourteen days (Tiny Hand (undated; archived on 2 September 2020) · archived copy).
