She isn't from Saudi Arabia. Apart from having a few nutty leaders Iran is closer to countries like Turkey than it is to Saudi Arabia. Anyway, academia is gene

She isn't from Saudi Arabia. Apart from having a few nutty leaders Iran is closer to countries like Turkey than it is to Saudi Arabia. Anyway, academia is generally one of the few "liberal" institutions in Islamic countries. The issue is usually of female graduates finding work outside academia (eg Saudi Arabia graduated its first batch of female law students in 2008 and still hasn't let them practice law).