Art and Culture
Educating the public in the Arab states about politics in general and about the revolutions in particular has been done in the past through written texts, distributed discretely, fearing oppressive authorities and avoiding censorship
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News
On the same day the king promoted democracy and freedom of speech by launching Demoqrati website, the Jordanian government censord 304 news websites
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Herstory
Hooriyah Mashhoor, Minister of Human Rights in Yemen announced that she will be on hunger strike until her demands are met by releasing the young people detained without trial since the popular uprising in 2011
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Herstory
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, awarded Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan the inaugural Naz Legacy Foundation Honorary Education Fellowship at the Annual Naz Legacy Foundation
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Herstory
The Palestinian Kulthum Odeh (1892 -1965) the first woman to hold the professor title in the Arab world who founded the institute of Arabic dialects at the University of Moscow
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Herstory
The Palestinian, Meteal Kawar, born 1889, the first Palestinian woman accredited as a physiotherapist in modern Arab history was blind
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Herstory
Raha Moharrak has become the first woman from Saudi Arabia to climb Mt. Everest when she made it to the summit yesterday after a grueling climb
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Art and Culture
There is nothing ordinary about the five musicians pumping out those familiar chords. They are Random Stars: the first Emirati all-girl rock band
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News
15 journalists from Amman and other governorates participated this week in an intensive 4-day training workshop on elections reporting
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News
An observation report has been released today detailing the findings of a team of lawyers who attempted to attend the trial of the 94 individuals charged with setting up an organisation to ‘overthrow the state’ in the United Arab... Read more