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Working on supporting children affected by conflict, poverty and deprivation, Rabeea Najm Al-Din Al-Naser, the founder and manager of House of Tales and Music (HTM) in Jordan, was elected by the members of the Anna Lindh National Networks to... Read more
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Report by Iqbal Tamimi Nabeela Masaad, a Yemeni woman who was married for three years to her husband Ahmad, had a lump in her sexual organs and experienced recurrent pains. One day her husband took her to hospital to be examined by Dr Ali... Read more
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Pioneer Jordanian anchor-woman, Rabah Mahmoud Rousan has passed away Monday October 21, 2013 in Jordan following a heart attack while driving. Rabah was one of the earliest anchor-women to read the 10 o’clock English news bulletin ‘News... Read more
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The 33-year-old woman, who can be identified only as Suad, may pay a heavy price for defying her well-connected father and marrying an Italian she met on holiday
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On 15 June 2013 the District Court in Al-Khobar sentenced two human rights campaigners, journalists Wajeha Al-Huwaider and journalist Fawzia Al-Oyouni who campaign for women’s human rights, to ten months in... Read more
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Saudi fashion designer, Rania Gamrawi , used SR500 currency notes worth one million to make a dress she says is intended to mark the Gulf country’s national day
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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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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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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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The Palestinian, Meteal Kawar, born 1889, the first Palestinian woman accredited as a physiotherapist in modern Arab history was blind
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