Articles tagged with: Arabia

31
Aug
2012

Queen Rania (Queen of Jordan/Mother/Education Activist)

Categories // Profiles & Bios

queen-rania.jpgRania Al Abdullah (Arabic: الملكة رانيا العبد الله‎ Rānyā al-‘abdu l-Lāh) (born Rania al Yassin on 31 August 1970) is the current Queen consort of Jordan as the wife of King Abdullah II of Jordan.

She is one of the world’s most powerful women, and has focuses her energy, at home and abroad, on a variety of causes, notably education.

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15
Jul
2012

Huda Sosebee (Wife/Mom/Force for Good)

Categories // Obits

huda_sosebee.pngHuda Sosebee (nee Al-Masri), passed peacefully over to God”s loving embrace on July 15, 2009 in her home in Kent, Ohio with her beloved family, following a seven-month battle with Leukemia.

Huda was the head social worker for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF).

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03
May
2012

Princess Haya of Jordan (Humanitarian/Sportswoman)

Categories // Profiles & Bios

hrh-haya-bint-al-hussein.jpgHaya bint Al Hussein (3 May 1974) is one of King Hussein I of Jordan's daughters and a wife of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

She generally describes herself as Her Royal Highness Princess Haya of Jordan (Arabic: ھيا‎), a title derived from her father.

Princess Haya represented Jordan in the 2000 Summer Olympics in show jumping. She was also her country’s flag bearer.

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01
Dec
2011

Funny, She Doesn't Look Like An Arctic Explorer

Categories // Women In the News

elham_al_qasimi.jpgFebruary 9, 2010, update from the Dubai Today show (weekdays 09:00 - 12:00 on Dubai 103.8):

Jessica Swann, broadcaster extraordinaire, and Mohammed Parham Awadhi, co-founder of Wild Peeta, interview 27-year-old Elham Al Qasimi, a United Arab Emirates National woman who intends to be become the first United Arab Emirates National, and thus also the first UAE National WOMAN, and the first Arab woman, to attempt reaching the North Pole unassisted and unsupported.

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21
Nov
2011

Fairuz (Singer/Diva)

Categories // Profiles & Bios

fairuz.jpgNouhad Wadi Haddad (Arabic: نهاد حداد‎) (born November 21, 1935), famously known as Fairuz (Arabic: فيروز‎), is a Lebanese singer who is widely considered to be the most famous living singer in the Arab world and one of the best known of all time.

She was born in Jabal al Arz (Cedar Mountain) to a Syriac Catholic father and a Maronite mother, and converted to Greek Orthodoxy when she married Assi Rahbani, one of two brothers who helped shape her career.

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21
Oct
2011

Women Take to Streets in Yemen

Categories // Women In the News

Yemen comment

From CNN

Thousands of women demonstrated Monday in front of Yemen's foreign ministry in the capital, Sanaa, demanding U.N. intervention in the ongoing unrest in the Persian Gulf nation, residents and eyewitnesses said.

The protest comes a day after the first woman was killed in a demonstration against the government, according to opposition activists.

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13
Jun
2010

Polar Explorer Elham Al Qasimi With Riz Khan

Categories // Women Worldwide

elham-al-qassimi.jpgSusan notes: from sand to snow and back again - an interesting interview with a brave, thoughtful and driven young Emirati woman who has become a heroine to her countrywomen and men in the United Arab Emirates.

I love her quiet determination, her poise, maturity and humility.

Clearly this amazing young woman is going to "go far" in more ways than one. So this won't be the last we'll hear from her...

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