RAMALLAH, West Bank — While Palestinian journalist Nahed Abu Taima was looking to rent a home in the West Bank city of Ramallah, she had great difficulty as a divorced woman in finding a landlord willing to rent to her.
Abu Taima, 43, who works as the gender unit coordinator in the Media Development Center at Birzeit University, told Al-Monitor, "I experienced difficulty in finding a home to rent as a divorced woman. Landlords kept telling me, 'You're a woman, where are we supposed to find you to collect the rent?'”