Archive for the ‘Kuwait’ Category

Women from Arab Countries Learn How to Run for Office

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If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Good 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 [...]

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First Arab on Everest now first Arab on Cho Oyo

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Zed al-Rifai, the first Arab to climb and reach the summit of Mount Everest is now officially the first Arab to climb and reach the summit of Cho Oyo Mountain. Rifai, announced last Thursday at 1:50 p.m. Beijing time his successful climb to mount Cho Oyo from altitude 8,201 meters.
Rifai is a Kuwaiti national [...]

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It’s the oil, stupid!

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For years now, British Petroleum (BP) has published a fascinating annual report entitled Statistical Review of World Energy. Publicly available on their website, this report provides excellent insight into the sources and uses of fossil fuel energy around the world. Now what does this report have to do with the political issues canvassed on this blog? As it turns out, quite a bit.

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Kuwaitis protest and say “KEFAYA”

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I found this ironic. Is it the turn of Kuwait?

(AFP) Around 200 Kuwaiti soccer fans called for the resignation of Kuwait Football Association officials after the national team’s poor form during their World Cup qualifying games.
The protestors, standing outside the KFA offices, raised placards calling on members of the ruling al-Sabah family to stay away [...]

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Australians torture Australian in Kuwait Jail

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“You’ve shown nothing but racism because I am an Arab and a Muslim,” the ABC quoted him as writing. “I am absolutely sure I will be exonerated and will face you and confront you before the law when you will be asked about your failure to assist me.” - Tallaal Adrey Australian citizen who says [...]

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Kuwait’s Al-Sabah Dean: ‘reconcile guys’

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“Mutual respect should prevail within the family and no member should… attack his cousins,” it quoted Sheikh Salem Al-Sabah who ranks fourth in the family hierarchy. “I will not allow… differences to degenerate into squabbling and attacks by family members against each other…“

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Dreams of foreign labourers buried in Gulf sands

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A recent rampage by unpaid workers at Bangladesh’s embassy in Kuwait illustrated the plight of foreign labourers in oil-rich Gulf states, where millions of them come in search of a better life but often end up in misery.

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Kuwait trip diary

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I was born at Kuwait and lived there for 18 years. But this was my first visit to Kuwait since 16 years. Although it was for business, however, it was emotional too.
Emotional in the sense that my first reaction when I landed at the airport was strange. I just stood at the arrival hall look [...]

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Short trip to Kuwait

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I’m out of town for a couple of days. Will be back by Friday, April 29. Stay tuned!

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In the Gulf, Dissidence Goes Digital

The following article was published in Washington Post yesterday. The author made it sound as if the Gulf countries are the only people in the world using the sms’s for social, political, etc… reasons. He made it sound so strange that made me wonder after I read it, SO? What is strange? I just can’t [...]

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Kuwaiti ’slit daughter’s throat’

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A Kuwaiti man has reportedly confessed to killing his 14-year-old daughter because he believed she was having sex.
Adnan Enezi - an employee in the Islamic Affairs ministry - had just returned from the pilgrimage to Mecca.
He allegedly bound and blindfolded his daughter, Haifa, knelt her down in front of her two brothers and [...]

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Arab Discriminates Against Women. Why Is That So?

Last week, Guardian-organised event at which more than 100 young British Muslims were brought together at University College London. The delegates came from all walks of life, and held a wide range of views.
The one thing that came across very clearly was that the media are often wrong to refer to “the Muslim community”, when [...]

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Fatwa: Internet Haram For Women

… except in the presence of a male guardian.
From Al-Qabas, via Kuwait Unplugged
[via: AraBlog, Chan'ad]

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For Kuwaitis, transsexual finds self ostracized at every turn

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Associated Press, Kuwait City – Her father and brothers beat her. The government suspended her from her job. A group of Muslim fundamentalists screamed abuse at her outside a courtroom.
Her crime: She was born a boy named Ahmed, and is now a tall, 29-year-old blonde who calls herself Amal – Hope.
An overseas sex-change operation [...]

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