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Maria Ahmed

Maria Ahmed

Migration expert, journalist, and humanitarian with 16 years at UN Migration (IOM) working across policy, partnerships, and advocacy on gender-based violence and migrant integration.

Jul 23, 2026

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movie
3:51
production centers like Hollywood like Nollywood from Nigeria as well any rom-com will actually stop at the idea of oh they met each other and dot dot dot they lived happily ever after we started reading this we started watching this so very much every every teenage girl was going up with these lovely ideas of there'll be a marriage there'll be all this great stuff and we're having fun and then everything's going to be fine because I will have found the prince that I'm going to live with.
4:16
And that's where it started.
4:17
And I think over time, what has faded to kind of neutralize or at least balance this view has been the fact that we used to have adults who used to talk about these things about two to three generations ago, there were adults in the family who would talk about these things, we would see these things much more.
4:33
So in the environment.
4:35
My grandmother, for example, grew up watching other family members, female family members, seeing how things were working.
4:41
Whereas in our case, a lot of the current focus is very much on the celebration of the wedding.

31 MINS LATER

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see right role models and they should understand gender equality so that they can implement those understanding in their everyday life you know i'm enjoying this conversation thoroughly but we have to see the time uh maybe we can come back again for another episode on the continue our conversation but Maria do you want to add anything here? I think for me I would basically

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