What's Holding Back Arab Women?
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A long-awaited report paints a devastating picture that shows the plight of Arab women extends far beyond debates over the veil
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BEIRUT: Consistently second only to Ariel Sharon in terms of unpopularity among Arabs, US President George W. Bush&#39;s re-election victory was greeted in the Arab world with a sense of disillusionment and foreboding.
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It is extremely important for Muslims, not only those in the US but also elsewhere, to decide whether they are against Israel because it is an oppressive occupying power that is denying Palestinians their genuine rights, or because it is a Jewish state.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Women may neither vote nor run in Saudi Arabiaâs first nationwide elections, the government announced Monday, dashing hopes of progressive Saudis and easing fears among conservatives that the kingdom is moving too fast on reforms.
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NEW YORK  - In certain Middle Eastern and other countries where conservative dress curtails exposure to sunlight, high levels of vitamin D supplementation may be needed to raise serum levels sufficiently in women, investigators report.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank Once considered a spoiled socialite, Yasser Arafat&#39;s wife, Suha, is making a play in the succession struggle.
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RABAT, Morocco -- Senior Arab officials attending a US- sponsored conference to promote democracy in the Middle East emphatically rejected yesterday the Bush administration's assertion that greater democracy in the region would help end terrorism. They argued that the administration's strong support of Israel made it difficult to undertake political reform or to stop extremists driven by hatred of US ...
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Middle Eastern bloggers tackling everything from human rights to Islam are making it harder for governments to keep their monopoly on the media. By the Associated Press.
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Recent conferences highlight growing efforts to include women in the struggle to end brutal conflicts.
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Kuwait - Saudi women will not vote in next month&#39;s municipal elections, the first polls to be held in the autocratic kingdom for many years, interior minister Prince Nayef said in remarks published on Monday.
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LAHORE, Pakistan  - She may be a model of Islamic modesty beneath her headscarf, but Nilofar has no time for religious political students who would dictate how she dresses, who she talks to, and what she can and can't study.
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Women faced pressure not to run as candidates in the Palestinian local elections. But they did &#151; and they won, with more than half of them defeating their male opponents in this conservative, traditional Arabic society.
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Rachida Dati has advanced further in French politics than any other person of Arab origin. But the media fracas she has ignited suggests a political class uncertain in its dealing with racial issues
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BEIRUT -- The kidnappings, beheadings, and explosions in Iraq, the killing of innocent children in Russia, and the car bombings in Turkey and Indonesia have sparked debate among Arab intellectuals on why the majority of terror acts have been committed by Muslims acting in the name of Islam.
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-Two Indonesian women, Rosidah binti Anan and Rafikan binti Aming, and two Lebanese men. Video broadcast Sept. 30 shows them being held at gunpoint by masked men and claims responsibility in the name of the Islamic Army in Iraq.
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US-funded efforts to spread democracy in Middle East meet with resistance.
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CAIRO, Egypt  - An Egyptian feminist writer and  teacher forced into exile by Islamic militant death threats for  half the 1990s says state suppression of secular thinkers means  she still has to go abroad to work.