Rania al-Baz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Rania al-Baz

Saudi Arabian journalist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1975

Place of Birth: Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia

Profession: television presenter, journalist

Nationality: Saudi Arabia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Rania al-Baz

  • Rania al-Baz (Arabic: ????? ??????) is a Saudi Arabian television presenter, well known as the host of the programme "The Kingdom this Morning".
  • She came to prominence after being badly beaten by her husband Muhammad Bakar Yunus al-Fallatta and hospitalized on April 13, 2004, when she was knocked unconscious and her face suffered 13 fractures.
  • When photographs of her "bruised and swollen face" were published, they "sent shockwaves through her country and around the world", according to Guardian journalist Ed Vulliamy.In 2001 Al-Baz became the first female announcer on Saudi television despite opposition from religious conservatives over her uncovered face and colored (rather than black) hijab.
  • Her career prospered until her beating in 2004.
  • According to Al-Baz, her husband beat her after she answered the phone without his permission.
  • He told her she was going to die, and after beating her and slamming her face repeatedly against the marble floor, put her body in the trunk of his car.
  • When she woke up and started moaning, he dropped her off at a private hospital.According to Vulliamy, her story has "fundamentally challenged the culture of silence" in Saudi Arabia "over violence against women".
  • Her husband was sentenced to six months in jail and 300 lashes, but was reduced by half "after Baz publicly pardoned him and waived a compensation suit".Her husband was ordered by a court to divorce.
  • Baz divorced her husband and won custody of her children.Arab News called her "a ground-breaker", and her decision to go public telling what happened to her, "a sensation in this private society".
  • Al-Baz wrote a book about her ordeal, Disfigured: A Saudi Woman's Story of Triumph Over Violence.Following her beating and recovery, al-Baz worked on Al Arabiya and the Lebanese channel Future Television.
  • She was criticized again for appearing on foreign television programs without her headscarf and allegedly criticizing Saudi Arabia.On August 26, 2013 a law was enacted making domestic abuse a "criminal offense punishable by a year in jail and a fine of up to USD $13,300".
  • According to Thomas Lippman, passage of the law was provoked by her beating and the photos of it that "forced into the arena of public discussion a subject that had long been kept quiet".

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