Comments on: Saudi women score twice in first polls

By: Haitham

Haitham — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:22:30 +0000

Wallahe, you maybe right, Nas. I have the same feeling. But if they do that, they are shooting themselves in the foot.

I think it is too late, in fact I’m afraid that what happened raises the expectations high.

Let’s just hope that future changes does not take a violante direction.

By: Nas

Nas — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:59:17 +0000

i get this sick feeling that this was done as a political ploy to say “we are reforming see” as well as to see if women could actually win.

i’m afraid that the outcome will be something along the lines of making sure that women never get to vote

By: Global Voices Online

Global Voices Online — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:24:12 +0000

Saudi Arabia: Double Win

Sabbah writes that two Saudi businesswomen swept to an unprecedented victory in elections to the board of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday in the first polls in which women stood as candidates in the conservative Muslim kingdom…