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Gabi Witthaus's List: Middle East
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Jun 14, 10
Exiled artist Shirin Neshat's first film is about the lives of four women in her native Iran – but it won't get past the country's censors
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Apr 30, 10
‘Women to blame’ for Qatar gridlock
“Allowing women to drive has doubled the problem of traffic jams in Qatar,” Assistant Director of the Traffic and Patrol Department for Technical Affairs, Colonel Mohamed A al-Malki, said yesterday. However, he said that only 3% of the road accidents involve women. -
Jan 29, 10
The transgender hijra community, often known as 'wedding dancers', has suffered decades of discrimination and harassment in Pakistan. But things have started to change, with new rights and laws offering hope to this long-oppressed minority. Declan Walsh reports
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Jan 18, 10
Qatar's government employees now have a chance to get even smarter. The Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology, ictQatar, announced today the launch of its revamped Qatar National e-Learning Portal.
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Jan 18, 10
Her Highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, Chair of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development affirmed that Qatar believes that education is a main and decisive factor in ensuring the readiness for facing the major and deep transformations which have become one of the prints of the contemporary world, adding that as a result, the possession of knowledge and its investment to the benefit of the progress of humanity must be at the core of Qatar's priorities and at the forefront of its commitments.
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Nov 29, 09
Dubai is finally financially bankrupt – but it has been morally bankrupt all along. The idea that Dubai is an oasis of freedom on the Arabian peninsular is one of the great lies of our time.
Yes, it has Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts and the Gucci styles, but beneath these accoutrements, there is a dictatorship built by slaves.
Related articlesDubai is finally financially bankrupt – but it has been morally bankrupt all along. The idea that Dubai is an oasis of freedom on the Arabian peninsular is one of the great lies of our time.
Yes, it has Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts and the Gucci styles, but beneath these accoutrements, there is a dictatorship built by slaves.
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Nov 28, 09
I’ve been home a few days now following a 2 week travel route that included the last week in Doha, Qatar to participate in the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). It was an unusual meeting/trip/experience on several fronts, and I’m baffled trying to find a coherent thread to pull together, so lacking that, I am winging it.
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Nov 09, 09
"The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology pushes many boundaries. Zoë Corbyn visits Saudi Arabia to see how its vision of top-class research in a liberal environment is taking root"
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Nov 04, 09
The level of education, research and innovation in the Arab world is appalling, a new UN report has claimed.
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Jul 19, 09
Andrew Blair says he will pick me up from outside my sleaze-bucket of a hotel, give it 20 minutes or so, got some work to finish off. He has a job again, contracts apparently “coming out of his ears”, which is good, because until recently he had earned a certain notoriety for not having a job and, more to the point, for the manner in which he went about finding a new one. He drove around Dubai, back in January this year, from the plug-ugly creek to the plug-ugly marina, in his white Porsche, with a sign in the back window saying he wanted a job; vroom vroom he went, gizza job. Scratch scratch scratch went the keys and coins along the side of his car whenever it was parked up.
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