[Livia]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Not according to wikipedia

Women's right to vote in the Arab world


Women were granted the right to vote on a universal and equal basis in Lebanon in 1952,[51] Syria (to vote) in 1949[52] (Restrictions or conditions lifted) in 1953,[53] Egypt in 1956,[54] Tunisia in 1959,[55] Mauritania in 1961,[56] Algeria in 1962,[57] Morocco in 1963,[58] Libya[59] and Sudan in 1964,[60] Yemen in 1967[52] (full right) in 1970,[61] Bahrain in 1973,[62] Jordan in 1974,[63] Iraq (full right) 1980,[62] Kuwait in 1985[64] (later removed and re-granted in 2005) and Oman in 1994.[65] Saudi Arabia in 2015.[66]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Arab_world

Women can vote in Saudi and Yemen and all those other countries... So that's all okay then!

I'm talking about real political freedom.

And quite a few of those countries you mention are in Africa, not the Middle East.