What is in all this, ultimately, for Rabia??

I never really thought about Rabia's true motivation before, but do you suppose she truly believes Adnan is innocent? Self-delusion and all that, she's obviously a special kind of type-A motivated crazy... but if she really does believe Adnan is innocent, I feel for her a little bit. To her the ends justify the means, because no means could be more unjust than the injustice she is crusading against.

I mean really what does she get out of this? I don't think she just want be famous and I'm not cynical enough to think she stuck with him for a decade in just some long con to cash in on rubes donating to his defense.

Perhaps she feels he was justified in killing her? Is that racist to consider?

Rabia confuses me. She's obviously both intelligent and highly capable. She created all of this, really, and executed a long game about as perfectly and with a devious aplomb. Koenig might have dealt with Rabia in Serial with a dismissive noblesse oblige as a bit of a kooky fanatic not to be totally taken seriously but Rabia had a much clearer idea of what she was using Koenig for than vice versa. She got everything and more she could have hoped out of the last decade plus of planning. It is not her fault that Adnan murdered Hae and that there is essentially no gray area in the case. Given an actual unjust conviction, we would see her and her tactics in a much different light. I'll say this: if I was wrongfully convicted, Rabia would be on my short list of people I'd want w for me. Her only mistake might have been failing to get any real celebrities to adopt FreeAdnan as a cause celebre.

What the hell did Rabia get out of spending like half her life on Adnan? Why do it if you don't really believe he should not be imprisoned? It is such a huge personal commitment.

To veer into possibly prejudicial territory, part of me sees this through the prism of the more extremely sexist strains of cultural Islam.... Rabia has subordinated her own self and goals and given her agency totally over to a man..... maybe there is a cultural aspect to her we are missing. She apparently does take her cultures convictions seriously and in earnest as heard in episode 1....is Rabia married, does anyone know?