Ramallah - For three years Gina Khnouf, 18, played football at her school in Ramallah. Today, a freshman at nearby Birzeit University, she is an important player in the newly-formed women's futsal (indoor football) team at the First Ramallah Sarriya Club.
Playing football, she says, "is a challenge because in our Arab society everyone thinks football is only for men."
She decided to break this taboo and prove that women can even be better players than men.
Sitting on the bench watching one of her teammates score during a practice match against Ramallah's leading men's futsal side, she tells Deutsche Presse-Agentur
