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Ko ahau te Nujood, Tau 10 me te Wehenga 
Nujood Ali, 2009 (whakamāoritanga Ingarihi, 2010)
Te Whakaputa Karauna
192 p.
ISBN-13: 9780307589675


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He kōtiro kāinga noa ahau, he wahine ngāwari, e whakarongo tonu ana ki ngā whakahau a tōku pāpā me ōku tuakana. Mai anō, kua ako ahau ki te whakaae ki ngā mea katoa. I tēnei rā kua whakatau ahau ki te whakaae.

I te akiakinga a tōna pāpā kia moe i tētahi tāne e toru ngā wā te pakeke ake i a ia, ka tonoa atu a Nujood Ali i ōna mātua me ōna tuahine aroha, ā, ka noho tahi rāua ko tana tāne me tōna whānau ki tētahi kāinga motuhake i te tuawhenua o Yemen. I reira ka mamae ia i te tukino tinana me te tukino hinengaro e tōna hungawai wahine i ia rā, i ia pō, ā, i te tukinotanga a tana hoa rangatira i ia pō. I te takahi i tana oati kia tatari kia moe tahi rāua ko Nujood tae noa ki tōna kore tamariki, ka tangohia e ia tōna wahinetanga i te pō o tā rāua marena. Tekau noa iho ōna tau.

Kāore i taea e Nujood te manawanui i te mamae me te pōuri, ka oma ia—ehara i te mea ki te kāinga, engari ki te whare kōti o te tāone nui, me te utu i te haerenga ki te tekesi me ētahi moni utu nui o te taro. I te rongonga o tētahi rōia rongonui o Yemen mō te patunga taitamariki, ka tangohia e ia te take a Nujood, ā, ka whawhai ki te pūnaha tawhito i roto i tētahi whenua e tata ana ki te haurua o ngā kōtiro e marena ana i raro tonu i te tau ture. Mai i tā rātou wikitoria i te Paenga-whāwhā 2008, ko te whakahē toa a Nujood ki ngā tikanga o Yemen me tōna ake whānau kua kukume mai i te aro o te ao. I whakaoho ake tana kōrero i ngā huringa i Yemen me ētahi atu whenua o te Rawhiti o Waenganui, kei reira ngā ture marena tamariki e whakatinanahia ana, ā, kua whakaaetia ngā whakarerenga o ētahi atu wahine marena tamariki.

Nō nā tata nei i whakanuia ngātahitia ai rātou ko Hillary Clinton rāua ko Condoleezza Rice hei tētahi o Glamour Ko Nujood, te wahine o te tau o te maheni, ka kōrerotia e ia tana kōrero katoa mō te wā tuatahi. I a ia e ārahi ana i a tātou mai i ngā tiriti makutu, kakara o te Tāone Tawhito o Sana'a ki ngā wāhi rawakore poraka sima me ngā kāinga tuawhenua o tēnei whenua tawhito, ko tana titiro pakari ki te hē i pā ki te tini o ngā kōtiro huri noa i te ao he mea whakamataku, he mea whakahihiri, ā, he mea tino kore e warewaretia.Mai i te kaiwhakaputa.)