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Beyond Today: What happens to Shamima Begum now?

What happens to Shamima Begum now?

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A 15-year-old leaving home to join IS sparks questions about young women and terrorism.

The Beyond Today podcast team finds the story of 15 year old girl who left the UK to join Islamic State provokes big questions about how young women get involved in terrorism.

PART ONE: What happens to Shamima Begum now?

Right now Shamima Begum is in a sprawling internment camp in the Syrian desert, stripped of her British citizenship and unable to leave. Buried there is her son Jarrah, who died of pneumonia. He was less than three weeks old. The BBC’s Middle East Correspondent Quentin Sommerville interviewed her twice and spoke to us about what happens to her now.

PART TWO: What do we get wrong about female terrorists?

Four years ago, at the age of 15, Shamima Begum ran away from home in East London to marry an Islamic State fighter in Syria. Now she’s 19, has just given birth in a refugee camp - and wants to come home. There has been huge interest in the story, but are we missing out on a bigger and more complex picture when it comes to understanding the role of women in IS? We hear from the BBC’s Daniel De Simone about other foiled terrorist plots and the role women played in hatching them. And academics Joana Cooke and Gina Vale tell us what people get wrong about radicalised women.

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