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The director of the clinic where Mariam Ayyad was [...]
The attached is from our local Al-Quds newspaper on Nov 1, 2006. A story about a 2-yr old girl who was released from an Israeli prison near Ramallah. Her name is Aiysha, which in Arabic means “life.”
Aiysha’s mother gave birth to her while detained in an Israeli prison. Aiysha was released two days ago, her [...]
Israeli army embarrassed by video broadcast (Mar 2002)
The Israeli army has expressed a note of contrition after a television station aired a videotape showing an army assault on a Palestinian home in which a mother of five children died.
When CBC News spoke with Ismail Hawarjeh at Bethlehem’s hospital earlier this month, there was no way [...]
It’s women again!
A report published by Khaleej Times said that a survey conducted by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Planning reveals a shocking number of “spinsters” across Saudi Arabia. To be precise, the exact number of the unmarried females has been recorded at 1,529,418. Now from the last census I could find, Saudi population has reached [...]
A new chapter in the Israeli Terrorist Forces and their state, full of blood of innocents, and we will never forget:
GAZA, June 9, 2006 (WAFA) - The Gaza Strip (GS) is witnessing a black Friday as Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed at least ten citizens in navy and air bombardment.
Witnesses said that Israeli navy vessels [...]
Warning: For adults only!
Well, it’s only turning bad news from Saudi. And unfortunately, it is about woman, again. But this time it’s on a larger scale. It is called; “destruction of all family values.”
I was not shocked when I heard that Misyar marriage is now officially blessed by the highest rank Mullah’s of Saudi. But [...]
[Source] Sixteen-year-old Isma Mahmood was deported to Pakistan last month after serving six months in shackles and handcuffs in a prison in Saudi Arabia. Her crime: being raped by a Saudi man.
“It’s difficult for me to talk about what happened to me, from rape to prison and from prison to deportation,” Isma said in the [...]
What is the second hardest to find after a “prime minister” in Iraq?
It is to find a “Beauty Queen”.
Tamar Goregian, 23, stepped down after four days as “Iraqi Queen of Beauty” following threats.
On April 9, Tamar Goregian, a Christian woman, made history as the first Armenian Iraqi to be crowned Miss Iraq. The 23-year-old, [...]
If the Netherlands becomes the first European country to ban the burqa and other Muslim face veils this month, Hope says she’ll resort to wearing a surgical mask to dress in accordance with her religious beliefs.
“I’ll wear one of those things they wore during the SARS epidemic if I have to,” said the Dutch-born Muslim, [...]
Nasa team sees explosion on Moon and two-headed snake ‘up for auction’ then Yahoo shapes up online video project Reality TV on the Internet and finally a British woman marries Dolphin.
وزير الشؤون الدينية التونسي: حجاب المرأة دخيل ونشاز و”لباس طائفي”. اعتبر وزير الشؤون الدينية التونسي المرأة التي ترتدي الحجاب بأنها “نشاز”، بحسبانه مظهرا “غير مألوف” إلى جانب أنه “زي طائفي”. وقال الوزير أبو بكر الأخزوري في حوار أجرته صحيفة “الصباح” التونسية الثلاثاء 27-12-2005 في رد على سؤال حول العودة النسبية لظاهرة الحجاب في تونس، إن [...]
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 Jockey.
There [...]
One in three people believes that women who behave flirtatiously are at least partially responsible if they are raped, Amnesty International report published in UK today reveals. A similar number think that women are partially or wholly responsible for being raped if they are drunk, and more than a quarter believe women are responsible if [...]
For the woman who wants to stay both warm and environmentally conscious this winter � and isn’t bothered by extra bulk under her shirt � a lingerie maker unveiled a thick bra that can be heated in a microwave.
If only President Bush could see the results of withholding funds from the U.N. Population Fund. Somewhere in the world, a pregnant woman dies like that about once a minute, often leaving a handful of orphans behind. Call me na�ve, but I think that if Mr. Bush came here and saw women dying as a [...]
A couple of days ago, I quoted this newspaper which said that UN report states that 94 per cent of Egyptian women are victims of domestic violence, but I could not verify this from original sources. Well, hat tip to Lali Sandiumenge who send me the link to the report, which you can find it [...]
A Jordanian man who murdered his sister for being a prostitute got a reduced jail sentence because he killed her in a “fit of rage”, the Jordan Times reported on Wednesday. The Criminal Court has sentenced a 26-year-old shepherd to six months in prison for the murder of his older sister in April 2005.
When will [...]
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 right direct:
Women politicians from 15 Arab countries are in Kuwait learning how to campaign for elected office. A special campaign school opened (in Kuwait) Sunday, focusing [...]
The latest victims of the prostitution club in the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen!!
Tourist marriage in Yemen
By Nabil Al-Osaidi For Yemen Times
Ruaa, a seventeen-year-old secondary school student in Ibb, used to be dodged by a new comer from one of the neighboring countries, until he succeeded to convince her to marry him. Then she lost her most [...]
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 Marriage) [...]
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