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Saudi Arabia: Sex-segregated sidewalks and women’s car driving

by Haitham Sabbah September 16, 2007

One more brain fart by Saudi Mutaween: Saudi Arabian religious police call for sex-segregated sidewalks – Saudi Arabia’s religious police are insisting that authorities of Medina, one of Islam’s holiest cities, should build separate sidewalks for women, the Kuwaiti Al-Qabas newspaper said Friday. The country’s Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of [...]

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Saudi woman’s bearing to stars

by Haitham Sabbah December 27, 2005

Thumps up for the Saudi ladies. A female engineer, Nadia Bakhourji, was the only woman who ran for a seat in the engineers’ board; and she won (Link in Arabic). Yet more, Alia Hayel Aboutaiyh Al-Howaite has taken the reins as the first female Saudi jockey to compete at the international level, becoimg a World-Class [...]

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Wafa Bin Laden decided to show her butt, and Sabbah pays for it!

by Haitham Sabbah December 24, 2005

How come? Well, last few days were hard on my server load. But last night I noticed that the numbers of visitors to my blog exceeded 11K. This has never happened to me. The blog average number of visitors these days are +2K a day, and with 11K, you are talking about number nearly equal [...]

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Saudi women score twice in first polls

by Haitham Sabbah November 30, 2005

Following up on my post few days ago, here comes the good news: 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.

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Khamis Mushayt Girl

by Haitham Sabbah August 12, 2005

The much-missed Saudi blogger behind ‘The Religious Policeman’ blog is back. Amongst other things, he had this observation on the Saudi Justice System: The 26-year-old mother of three, called the ‘Khamis Mushayt Girl’, convicted of murdering a man six years ago is scheduled to be executed next Thursday… The details are uncertain, because all Saudi [...]

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Saudi Woman Can Vote!

by Haitham Sabbah August 7, 2005

Well, not all, but 600 of them :-) So, 600 Saudi women are expected to participate in the elections of the chamber of trade and industry in eastern Saudi Arabia for the first time. Way to go ladies, Good luck!

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Wafa Bin Laden dumps her infamous title

by Haitham Sabbah July 17, 2005

Update: Since you have come that far, this late, I think I know what you are looking for. The photos are here! Osama Bin Ladin’s niece, is now called Wafar Dufour (yakhhh…). She said that she has been forced to change her name in the wake of constant taunts by people, about her family connection [...]

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Hanadi al-Hindi: The first Saudi woman to gets a pilot’s license

by Haitham Sabbah June 17, 2005

(Guardian) Saudi women cannot drive, but apparently they can fly. A Saudi woman who recently obtained her pilot’s license in Jordan said Thursday she has been hired by a private aviation company to fly commercial planes. Although proud of her career, Capt. Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi said she expects an angry reaction when she arrives back [...]

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Mesyaf (Summer Holiday) Marriage, New form of Prostitution in Saudi Arabia!

by Haitham Sabbah June 9, 2005

No, I’m not kidding. Alarabiya reported this… marriage (in Arabic) and here is my translation to part of the article, followed by my comments: After Almesyar marriage, blood, cassette, secret, on home, and the pleasure marriage, lately in Saudi Arabia a new form of weird ways of marriage is spreading called “Almesyaf Marriage” (Summer Holiday [...]

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Saudi women rated least free in Arab world

by Haitham Sabbah May 22, 2005

Saudi Arabia received the lowest rating on women’s freedom in a new survey released at the World Economic Forum 2005 – Jordan. The survey, conducted by the Freedom House, is the first comparative assessment of women’s rights in 17 nations in the Middle East and North Africa. It found a “substantial deficit of women’s rights [...]

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Wafa: Bin Laden’s niece – A material girl, not Madonna

by Haitham Sabbah April 18, 2005

Meet Wafa’a Bin Laden (or Wafah Binladin as she like to spell her name), niece of Osama bin Laden who wants to be an Arab version of Madonna. But a friend quoted in the New York Post said, “She wants to be a pop star but no record company will have her.”

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