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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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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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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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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