Egypt feminist in presidency bid
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Outspoken feminist writer Nawal Saadawi says she will run in Egypt's presidential poll but does not expect to win.
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For the first time, a woman has been chosen as one of two candidates facing off for the presidency of the Navajo Nation, whose reservation is the largest in the country.
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Lawmakers in India were expected to elect the nation&#39;s first woman president in voting that began on Thursday, following the most scandal-dogged contest in six decades of independence.
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First female leader of a Muslim country in modern times had envisioned a democratic, moderate future
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Segolene Royal, a popular Socialist, launches her bid to become France's first woman president.
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, June 10 -- Salah Noman Mubarak did his bit as a candidate for the opposition Muslim Brotherhood movement ahead of Monday's parliamentary elections: He planted big, smacking kisses on beaming constituents. Held earnest policy discussions over glasses of tea. Dropped in at the ma...
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Description: Nine candidates are running for the Palestinian presidency in January&#39;s election, but the spotlight is on Mahmoud Abbas, who succeeded Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and jailed militant leader Marwan Barghouti
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Middle East News, Jailed West Bank leader Marwan Al Barghouti decided to run for Palestinian president in January elections to succeed the late Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, a member of the dominant Fatah faction&#39;s higher committee said on Thursday.
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Democratic presidential hopeful  Hillary Rodham Clinton launched a drive on Tuesday to mobilize  women voters to help her break the "hardest and highest" glass  ceiling by winning the White House.
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Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti has decided to run for the Palestinian presidency as an independent candidate to replace late Yasser Arafat, one of his associates said Thursday.
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The women of France agree electing a  female president would be a giant step forward for a nation  which has treated career women poorly.
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The woman who famously labeled Bill Clinton as the "first black president" is backing Barack Obama to be the second.
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For all the millions the presidential campaigns have spent, it still comes down to this: Ask people what they think of Hillary Rodham Clinton and they say female and feminist. For Barack Obama, it's inexperience. Mitt Romney is known as a Mormon, John McCain for his military service.
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In a tradition-bound nation, women are emerging as an economic and political force unheard of in the rest of the Arab world.
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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.
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A Palestinian democracy activist who has campaigned for non-violent resistance to Israeli occupation said on Saturday he would run for president to succeed Yasser Arafat.
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RAMALLAH: The wife of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi said last night she was registering him to run for president to succeed Yasser Arafat.