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{jcomments on} Libyan women and girls who become pregnant through rape risk being murdered by their own families in so-called “honour killings”, according to aid workers. Rape is a sensitive topic worldwide, but in this country... Read more
News
{jcomments on} Salma Al Baloushi operates flight as a first officer on flight EY 091 from Abu Dhabi to Athens Etihad Airways said on Monday that it had operated its first flight with an Emirati female pilot on board
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Opinion
{jcomments on} One aspect of the so called Arab Spring that has found little favour in the British press is the slight improvement it has brought to the lives of women in countries that have managed to oust their tyrants. Repressive regimes... Read more
Opinion
{jcomments on} Hijab wearing television presenters are back on Egyptian television screens after years of exclusion In what was described as one of the fruits of the revolution of January 25, the Federation of Egyptian Radio and TV... Read more
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{jcomments on}A CALL FROM GAZA IN SUPPORT OF THE FREEDOM FLOTILLA II : BESIEGD GAZA, OCCUPIED PALESTINE June 12, 2011–We the Palestinians of the Besieged Gaza Strip, on this day, five years after closures began on Gaza, are saying enough... Read more
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{jcomments on} Looking at Alzheimer’s patients, Canadian neuroscientist Ellen Bialystok finds that people who speak two languages cope significantly better with the disease Neuroscientist Ellen Bialystok says bilingual children have... Read more
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{jcomments on} Three Gulf-based businessmen have been named in the Queen Elizabeth II’s Birthday Honours list, which was announced on Saturday. Robert Schwarz, Anthony Palys and Emad Turkman were honoured for services to British... Read more
{jcomments on}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbNfnnKEDmg MRN flim screening: ‘Son of Babylon’ dir Mohamad Ad Diriadji with Yasser Talib and Shazada Hussein. Migrants’ Rights Network, The British Film Institute, The Runnymede... Read more
Opinion
What on earth has got into Dr. Taj Hargey, imam of the Oxford Islamic Congregation and the Chairman of Muslim Education Centre of Oxford? I could not believe my eyes when a received an email about their ‘burqa banning celebration’ event... Read more