Shamis Dirlr grew up in a traditional family in Aden: ' A girl's place was to cook, get married, have children: that was the life.' Rebelliousness brought Shamis to England, and a new set of pressures: isolation, bad housing, and so on. Now She organises other women in the Somali Women's Association in London's East End. Do her activities mean she's turned her back on the Muslim faith in which she was brought up?
Videotape editor ian low Producer JENNY Morgan