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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Opinion
I am an Arab Jew. Or, more specifically, an Iraqi Israeli woman living, writing and teaching in the U.S. Most members of my family were born and raised in Baghdad
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Arab Women Media Watch Centre in UK (AWMW) congratulates the 2012 Olof Palme Prize winners, Radhia Nasraoui from Tunisia and Waleed Sami Abu Alkhair from Saudi Arabia both of whom are Arab lawyers, fighting for the freedoms and rights of... Read more
News
By Iqbal Tamimi Egyptian Islamist MP has been caught by police with a veiled woman in what has been described as a breach of public moral conducts
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By Iqbal Tamimi Saudi human rights activist, Samar Badawi, who received the prestigious “Women of Courage Award” from the US State Department after she filed a lawsuit against her father challenging the kingdom’s rigid... Read more
File this under awesome, amazing, and downright courageous: A Saudi woman publicly defied the country’s ultra-strict religious police, to stand by her decision to rock a manicure
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Art and Culture
The first Saudi feature film is directed by a Saudi woman and talks about a Saudi woman’s dream By Iqbal Tamimi It has been a gigantic leap for Saudi women to Cannes 2012 Festival. The Saudi female filmmaker unveiled the dreams of ‘Wadjidah’... Read more
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Yemeni girl sweats blood and cries tears of stones By Iqbal Tamimi A televised report of a Yemeni young woman, 18 years old, shocked the audiences and baffled the medical experts. It can be watched on the attached video. Saborah Hasan, a young... Read more