[2][3] In November 2008, the U.S. Women's magazine Glamour designated Nujood Ali as Woman of the Year, and associated her lawyer Shada Nasser to the same tribute.
After waiting for half a day, she was noticed by a judge, Mohammed al-Għadha, who took it upon himself to give her temporary refuge, and had both her father and husband taken into custody.
For the lawyer, it was the continuation of a struggle that had begun with the opening of her practice in Sana'a in the 1990s as the first Yemeni law office headed by a woman.
[12] In 2010, Ali's family moved to a new two-story residence bought with the help of her French publisher and running a grocery store on the ground floor of the building.
[11] Because the publishers were not able to pay Ali directly under Yemeni law, they agreed to give $1000 a month to her father until she was 18 to provide for her and her education.
"[14] Indeed, publicity surrounding Ali's case is said to have inspired efforts to annul other child marriages, including that of an eight-year-old Saudi girl who was allowed to divorce a middle-aged man in 2009, after her father had forced her to marry him the year before in exchange for about $13,000.
[13] He used the money earmarked for Ali's education to buy two new wives for himself, and, according to haaretz.com, her father sold Haifa into marriage with a much older man.