Honestly, my Latin isn’t what it could be, so I don’t even know for certain that I’ve gotten it right, or right enough, but for author Nujood Ali, even a near-miss at an ancient proclamation of freedom through a book seems somehow fitting.  The book, I AM NUJOOD, AGED 10 AND DIVORCED, is her autobiography.

Hailed as “one of the greatest women” Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has ever seen, and honored in Glamour Magazine as one of 2008’s Women of the Year, Nujood diverted the course of her life, and perhaps the lives of more of her Yemeni sisters, in a covert dash to the local courthouse to demand a divorce from her abusive, molesting husband.  Husband.  Nujood was 10.

The book has gone on to translation in 18 languages, but it is the release of her story in her native Arabic that Nujood anticipates the most; the hope of where it could shake loose the most benefit.

It’s an honor to have simply run across the story of her bravery, with a nod to Patti Wiggington for drawing my attention that way.

Nicholas D. Kristof elaborates in The New York Times‘ op-ed section from this past Wednesday’s edition.

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