Rob Vreeken - Journalist international affairs

Rob Vreeken

Rob Vreeken (1953) started his career in journalism 35 years ago. Since 1983 he has worked as a reporter for the daily newspaper de Volkskrant. He studied Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and graduated cum laude on the subject of International Affairs. He also concluded a study of journalism at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht.

From Koran to Girl Power ( Baas in eigen boerka)

The idea that lives in the Western World of Islamic women is one-sided and uncompromising according to Volkskrant reporter Rob Vreeken.

At this moment in time their fate is progressing, they have more access to schooling, get less children and are uniting themselves. The Islamic politics may work against them, but the social tide is on their side. Many women succeed in finding chances in new fields, if not for themselves, it’s to help their daughters. Rob Vreeken searched the Muslim World for examples of how and through which paths the emancipation develops. He met with women taxi drivers, female students, women in factories and in villages, women who were abused, career women wearing a chador and Muslim feminists who know the Koran by heart.

Many of the women dressed in burqa fight for their own position in the world they live in.

Rob Vreeken shows that behind the personal stories a world of faith, hope and change lies.