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About the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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The Women of Saudi
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For all the women who
have dedicated their lives
to working in a country dominated by men,
I salute EACH you!!
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Successful Saudi Women
I've found this page and am really
impressed with the list of women who have managed to surpass the stereotype
given to them.. There are pictures along with the information.
http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=215016
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Among the women listed:
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- The Saudi scientist on
Bioinformatics Hyatt Sindi. "She was offered to join The NASA in Texas
because there is no body in their lab that has her qualifications on
Bioinformatics but she refused because she was afraid that her inventions
and projects would serve war needs." |
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- The Saudi scientist Dr. Faten
Khorsheed. "From Jeddah. She is an engineer genetic structure. She
discovered a new medication on recovering lungs cancer. She is planning to
win The Nobel Prize within her discoveries. " |
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- The Saudi designer Zakia bin
Abboud. "Well known designer from Jeddah. She won best clothing designer in
the whole kingdom. She mixes the traditional designs of Arabia with her
gifted unique touch. She tries NOT to imitate western style." |
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- Dr. Nahed Taher has been
appointed CEO for the Gulf One Investment Bank, making her the first Saudi
woman to head a bank in the Gulf region, with $100 million in capital.
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- .Captin Hanadi Hindi
"Saudi women take to the skies As a Saudi woman living in the conservative
religious state, Hanadi Hindi will be forbidden from driving to work in her
new job. When she arrives, she will climb into the cabin of a jet aircraft
as Saudi Arabia's first female pilot. |
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Dr Thuraya Ahmed Obaid,
undersecretary of the UN secretary-general and executive
director of the UN Population Fund, took part in the ceremony as
well as a number of ministers, undersecretaries and officials.
http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=27790 |
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Rajaa Al-Sanie
From Reuters / Fri Jan 20, 2006
Woman shocks Saudi world with 'The Girls of Riyadh / By Andrew Hammond
Gay teenagers, predatory lesbians, women drinking alcohol at weddings,
husbands with unsavoury sexual demands. With characters like that, "The
Girls of Riyadh" is not your run-of-the-mill depiction of life in Muslim
Saudi Arabia, one of the world's most restricted and conservative societies.
Though technically banned here, Rajaa al-Sanie's frank and sometimes
shocking insight into the closed world of Saudi women is making waves four
months after its publication in Beirut.
www.tamer.nomadlife.org/
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Nadia Bakhurji |
Engineers Council Poll: One More Step for Saudi
Women / by Somayya Jabarti, Arab News
JEDDAH, 28 December 2005 — Results of the first-ever election to
the Saudi Engineers Council were announced yesterday with a
Saudi woman making history again by winning a seat on the
10-member board.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=75393&d=28&m=12&y=2005 |
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24 - 30 June 2004 / Social activist Maha Fitaihi spoke at
the National Dialogue Council, a meeting on the duties and
rights of Saudi women in Medina two weeks ago.
"Whenever I return to Saudi Arabia after a holiday, I carry
anti-depressants in my hand luggage," relates one of the young
journalists at the table. Salwa, on the other hand, is more
optimistic. "My generation of young Saudi city women no longer
sits at home waitingfor better times; they take things into
their own hands."
www.weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/696/fe2.htm |
Maha Fitaihi |
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Young girls often wear a dance tobe for happy occasions. Here, my neice, when she was two, in a fine net with 21k gold tobe.
On the right, another neice is wearing a Mahnaga (mah-na-ga), another type of decorative cover for girls.
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Saudi Arabian Women, Smile! You-re on Candid Camera!
Selling cell phones with built-in digital cameras is forbidden in Saudi Arabia. This decision was made by the Committee for Protection of Virtue after numerous occasions in which men used such phones to take candid pictures of women. http://english.pravda.ru/fun/2002/10/07/37849.html
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| After my daughter-in-law had her
first baby she stayed with her mother for the first 6 weeks and
as is the norm a 'bed' is set up in the living room for the new
mother when visitors come to visit with her. Many Arab's believe
that after a birth the mother must stay in bed for the entire 6
weeks but after talking with a mother of her family I learned
that she only used the bed when visitors came. Otherwise she was
running around after her other two yong children. I guess the
bed is still used as tradition..
click the picture for a larger one. |
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Special Report
Saudi Arabian Women Dispel Myths and Stereotypes
By Delinda C. Hanley Every woman I met in Riyadh this trip made me want to write a story with the title, “Brilliant Saudi Woman Breaks the Stereotype.” It soon dawned on me, however, that it’s the Western stereotype of the veiled Saudi woman hidden away from modern-day opportunities that needs to change. No one I met felt oppressed or excluded. On the contrary, every woman I interviewed personified the fact that many Saudi women have received excellent educations and now are working hard to build their nation.
www.wrmea.com/archives/may-june01/0105035.html Please read the full article!!
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Our beach cabin at
north Ubhor (the creek), looking towards the Red Sea. Notice my 'bathing costume'. Women would never swim on a public beach
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When we first began going to Ubhor in the early 80's,
the cabin compound was rented mostly by the foreign comminity. It was very
free and easy then, the women wore their bekinis and sunbathed with no
worries. BUT now mostly foreign Arabs are there and the majority of
women wear their 'hejab' dress or are in abayas! One step forward, three
backwards.....
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Example of Saudi hospitality:
Taking a long, finished piece
of rug down from the wall, she asks one of the servants for a pair of scissors so she can cut the rug into pieces for each of us. We all panic! We cannot let her destroy a beautiful piece of art by turning it into tattered squares. www.saudiembassy.net/publications/Magazine-Winter-01/wonders.htm A very nice travel-log! |
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You can have a picnic any place that you
are able to set down your rug!
My picture from a family outing. |
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The Fulla doll is designed to appeal to a Muslim market, Fulla
is believed to be the best-selling girls' toy in the Arab world.
www.tamer.nomadlife.org/
Notice that in the box, one doll wears the
abaya and head scarf!! |
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