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A fellowship program recognized and awarded nine Arab women US$20,000 to continue their research as part of an effort to encourage women in scientific pursuits under the slogan “World needs science. Science needs women.”
The L’Oreal-UNESCO Pan-Arab Regional Fellowship for Women in Science, managed by the Arab Science and Technology Foundation, accepts fellows from 17 Arab countries. It presented this year’s awards at a conference in Beirut on 4 October.
Dr. Nabil Saleh, head of the jury that chose the winners, spoke about the importance of the competition.
“Women in the Arab world are generally underprivileged,” Saleh said. “The fields of science and technology are often the pulse of development, and in the Arab world, women are obviously missing in the forefront of these fields.”
Saleh said he believes women are held down by social expectations.
“Women are expected to be mothers and wives first and foremost, and yet 50 percent of science professors in Egypt are women,” Saleh said, explaining that women need to prove more than men to get funding for their research. (more…)

The Women Changing Lebanon Through Football

Posted by Tabi in News on 10 18th, 2011 | no responses

Lebanese women are fighting a silent revolution on the football field through the popular club programme of the Cross Cultures Project Association (CCPA) in Lebanon, which provides educational activities for those in post-conflict countries.
Farah and Mirna are two young women on an important mission: they want to change Lebanese society by promoting gender equality and giving young girls the opportunities they didn’t have themselves.
“We are here at the CCPA seminar because we want to change something,” says 28-year-old Mirna. Together with her friend Farah, Mirna is taking part in a seminar in Beirut for volunteers in the CCPA Popular Club programme. The two school teachers want to establish their own sports club for girls in their hometown. “There is nothing like this in our town. All sports clubs are for boys and men, but we want to make a club for girls – and only girls!” says Farah, who has been living in a little town in South Lebanon her entire life and is fed up with how her society views and treats girls and women. “We have had no opportunities for sports or physical activities. It has been very frustrating,” she says.
CCPA Lebanon is focusing on bringing together a mixed group of children who play in the same club regardless of gender, talent, social standing, religious and ethnic distinctions. The CCPA popular club project is working to support the development of an active civil society based on diversity and equality, where females are encouraged to take an active part in order to promote gender equality and non-discrimination. (more…)

اغلبية “البنات” يتصفحن الانترنت اثناء القيادة

Posted by Tabi in News on 10 17th, 2011 | no responses

قرأت عن استطلاع جديد ينص على ان 62.5% من “البنات” في الكويت يتصفحون الانترنت ويتحدثون في النقال اثناء القيادة مقابل 37.5% للشباب وقد شملت الدراسة اكثر من 100 الف شخص, وهذا برأيي من اكثر اسباب الحوادث هذه الايام فقد كشفت دولة الامارات العربية المتحدة ان نسبة الحوادث انخفضت 20% بعد انقطاع خدمة البلاك بيري ل 3 ايام فقط !ا
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ونصيحتي “ديروا بالكم يا بنات ترى الحياة غالية وما راح يصير شي لو تأجلت المكالمة جم دقيقه”.ا

Nobel Peace Prize winner – Tawakul Karman

Posted by Tabi in News, Yemen on 10 7th, 2011 | no responses

The 2011 Nobel peace prize was awarded jointly to two Liberians, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and peace activist Leymah Gwobee, who mobilised women to help end the war in Liberia, and to the Yemeni journalist and human rights activist, Tawakul Karman. Karman set up an organisation called Women Journalists without chains and has been a key figure in the uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Karman said,
“This award is not for me rather for the millions who have been marching. The Yemeni revolution is finally getting international recognition. We need to continue seeking international pressure on the oppressive Saleh regime in order for this prize to be of greater value”.
The Nobel peace prize committee said they were chosen “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work”.
Karman dedicated her award to the Yemeni people and called on the international community to give it value by putting pressure on the Saleh regime. Sirleaf-Johnson said Liberians should be proud and said ti gave her “a stronger commitment to work for reconciliation”.

Saudi Women take Big Leap to Future

Posted by Tabi in KSA, News on 10 1st, 2011 | no responses

Burda Style Launches Arabic Edition

Posted by Tabi in News on 08 17th, 2011 | no responses

Burda Style Arabia, a combined English and Arabic version of the hugely popular European fashion titleBurda Fashion, which has been in operation since 1950 and is published in 90 countries and 17 languages, isnow on sale throughout the GCC, Egypt and Levant.
Produced by independent film, television, digital and publishing company, Takhayal Entertainment,the monthly fashion title will also have four additional special editions – Plus Sizes, Kids, Teenagers andWeddings. (more…)

Weightlifter Kulsoom Abdullah Permitted To Compete After Rules Change

Posted by Tabi in News on 07 2nd, 2011 | no responses

Weightlifting’s world governing body agreed Wednesday to modify its clothing rules to accommodate a Muslim women competing for the United States.

Kulsoom Abdullah of Atlanta was barred from entering higher-level U.S. competitions. Her Muslim faith requires that she covers her arms, legs and head, which violates international rules governing weightlifting attire.
USA Weightlifting took her case to the International Weightlifting Federation, which agreed to change the rules after its technical committee reviewed the proposal.
“The modified rule changes permit athletes to wear a one-piece, full-body, tight-fitted ‘unitard’ under the compulsory weightlifting costume,” IWF vice president Sam Coffa said. (more…)