Women from Arab Countries Learn How to Run for Office

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Women from Arab Countries Learn How to Run for OfficeGood news for Arab woman. It seems that the Kuwaiti women activists, who demonstrated outside parliament to grant women political rights until they got it are moving in the right direct:

Women from Arab Countries Learn How to Run for OfficeWomen politicians from 15 Arab countries are in Kuwait learning how to campaign for elected office. A special campaign school opened (in Kuwait) Sunday, focusing on the skills needed to succeed in politics in a region where women’s political voices are often muffled.

More than 50 women from all over the Middle East and North Africa split up into small groups to discuss different challenges they will face in running for office. For many of them, it will be a totally new experience, and they may face severe obstacles in their quest to get elected.

Go ladies, go…

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