Rosalie Domingo. Miss Domingo, in your own words, what do you want from this case? Rosalie takes a breath. I want every woman working abroad.…
Ellen’s breath caught, but she forced herself not to react. Do not turn. Do not acknowledge. Sick men do not make conversation. She kept her…

A woman’s hand trembles as she holds a medical report. Red letters stamped across the top. HIV positive. May 15th, 2015, Dubai. 3:47 p.m. A…
We walked at night, hid during the day, trusted guides who knew the mountain passes where border patrols were thinnest. The journey was terrifying. Cold…
But I’m doing it with Jesus, and that makes all the difference. He’s still transforming me, still teaching me, still revealing new layers of his…
I had to forget everything I had learned and returned to Islam before anyone else found out. He was trying to protect me. I think…
The lead judge pronounced the sentence death by hanging for apostasy. My knees almost gave out. I had known it was possible, even probable. But…
“Due to medical complications and ongoing review of certain procedural aspects of my case, I was being released to family custody under strict conditions. I…

I’m sitting in a small apartment thousands of miles from Thran in a country I never imagined I would call home. The sun is setting…
Even when the principal was harsh or when the morality enforcers came to inspect the school, checking our hijabs and our behavior, she remained calm,…
