Saudi scholar finds ancient women's rights

Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi, author of ''Women in Pre-Islamic Arabia: Nabataea'' stands with her book during an interview at her residence in Riyadh, April 20, 2008. In her study, ''Women In Pre-Islamic Arabia'', the outspoken rights advocate argues women in the pre-Islamic period enjoyed considerable rights in the Nabataean state, an urban Arabian kingdom centred in modern Jordan, south Syria and northwest Saudi Arabia during the Roman empire. REUTERS/Fahad Shadeed