For Gaza Women, Baseball Is a Hit – Wall Street Journal (subscription)

GAZA CITY—Like many a teenager, Mariam Sadi has lied to her parents. Her fib was about playing baseball.

Ms. Sadi, a 19-year-old student of media studies, initially told her family she was taking photos of a new women’s baseball team in the Gaza Strip. She feared that they would disapprove of a woman taking part in sports in this conservative…