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Ed Webb

Fears over education's gender gap - The National Newspaper - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 06 Nov 09 - Snapshot
  • Emirati boys are posting lower examination scores and dropping out of high school at a much greater rate than Emirati girls, newly released research shows.

    It also found that among pupils who complete secondary schooling, many fewer boys go on to a university education.
  • although 70 per cent of Emirati girls enrol at university after high school, the figure for boys is only 27 per cent.

  • The drop-out rates are highest in Grade 10, the first non-compulsory year of school, when many boys abandon their education to pursue jobs in the public sector.

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  • “By no means does this study imply that girls have an outstanding quality of education either,” she said. “I would say that neither boys nor girls are receiving the best education that they could in government schools.”
  • Dr Ridge recommended that the Ministry of Education should look at improving the quality of its expatriate teaching force, getting more Emirati men to become teachers, and making schools more attractive to pupils.
  • The Armed Forces and police were a “very attractive” career choice for some because they required minimal education
  • Emiratis make up only one per cent of the UAE’s private sector workforce. The public workforce is 85 per cent Emirati.
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    Ed Webb on 06 Nov 09
     
    What are the implications of an undereducated population for media and governance?
Ed Webb

Saudi man divorces wife by text message - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 11 Apr 09 - Snapshot
  • A court in the Red Sea city of Jeddah finalised the split -- the first known divorce in Saudi Arabia by text message -- after summoning the two relatives to check they had received word of the husband's intention, the paper said.
Ed Webb

YouTube - Women, Shari'ah and Islam - Hamza Yusuf - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 07 Apr 09 - Snapshot
  • Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson:
    Shaykh Hamza was born in Washington State to a Catholic father, a university professor of Humanities, and a Greek Orthodox mother, a graduate from the University of California at Berkeley and was raised in Northern California. In 1977, he became Muslim and subsequently traveled to the Muslim world and studied for ten years in the U. A. E., Saudi Arabia, as well as North and West Africa. He received teaching licenses in various Islamic subjects from several well-known scholars in various countries. After ten years of studies abroad, he returned to the USA and earned degrees in Religious Studies and Health Care. He has traveled all over the world giving talks on Islam.
Ed Webb

Feminist Review: Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 02 Apr 09 - Snapshot
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    Ed Webb on 02 Apr 09
     
    Negar Mottahedeh is one of my Twitter contacts. So if any of you are interested in this subject and check out the book, we can probably contact her with questions.
Ed Webb

Saudi Gazette - Schoolgirls fall prey to coffee shop trap - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 31 Mar 09 - Snapshot
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    Ed Webb on 31 Mar 09
     
    Twitter provides...
Katie Kiraly

Variety News | Lebanese magazine champions sex and the city - 0 views

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shared by Katie Kiraly on 30 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • Other articles deal with battered men and women, transsexuals and the Kama Sutra. A regular feature is ‘My First Time,’ in which a well-known figure talks about his or her first sexual encounter and subsequent sex life.
  • it has drawn the wrath of religious authorities and women's organizations in Lebanon who are calling for its closure on the grounds that it amounts to pornography.
  • this magazine, under cover of being cultural, appeals to sexual instincts
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  • "Subjects that teach our youngsters how to make love do not fit in with our moral values and civic education."
    • Katie Kiraly
      Katie Kiraly on 30 Mar 09
       
      Sounds like good old Western anti-sex education rhetoric to me.
  • For now Lebanese authorities appear content to let publication continue
  • "The highest numbers of subscribers, 282 out of some 400, are in Saudi Arabia where the magazine was met with much enthusiasm," said Haddad
  • Katie Kiraly
    Katie Kiraly on 30 Mar 09
     
    From explicit articles about masturbation and homosexuality to columns about 'My First Time', Joumana Haddad is out to lift the veil on Arab cultural taboos with a new glossy magazine that is already the focus of controversy.
Ed Webb

Women told: 'You have dishonoured your family, please kill yourself' - Europe, World - The ... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 29 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • So-called "honour killings" in Turkey have reached record levels. According to government figures, there are more than 200 a year – half of all the murders committed in the country. Now, in a sinister twist, comes the emergence of "honour suicides". The growing phenomenon has been linked to reforms to Turkey's penal code in 2005. That introduced mandatory life sentences for honour killers, whereas in the past, killers could receive a reduced sentence claiming provocation. Soon after the law was passed, the numbers of female suicides started to rocket.
  • "I think most of these suicide cases are forced. There are just too many of them, it's too suspicious. But they're almost impossible to investigate," said Mustafa Peker, Batman's chief prosecutor.

  • Most honour killings happen in the Kurdish region, a barren land ravaged by years of war and oppression. Rural communities here are ruled under a strict feudal, patriarchal system. But as Kurds have fled the fighting between separatist rebels and Turkey's government, the crime is spreading across the country into its cities and towns. According to a recent government report, there is now one honour killing a week in Istanbul.

    "Families who move here are suddenly faced with modern, secular Turkey," said Vildan Yirmibesoglu, the head of Istanbul's department of human rights. "This clash of cultures is making the situation worse as the pressure on women to behave conservatively is become more acute. And of course there are more temptations."

Elizabeth Sick

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Emiratis target 'masculine women' - 0 views

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shared by Elizabeth Sick on 13 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • delinquent behaviour
  • That is how the social affairs ministry in the emirates describes what would in some other societies be known as homosexuality or transvestitism.
  • this kind of behaviour could be attributed to a number of causes including the unfair treatment of wives by their husbands and lack of mixing between the sexes.
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  • This, she said, could lead to girls feeling more secure in the company of other girls and some may adopt the male role by having their hair cut short or by putting on a man's voice.
  • Katie Kiraly
    Katie Kiraly on 13 Mar 09
     
    The UAE government has launched a campaign against what it describes as masculine behaviour among women.
  • Elizabeth Sick
    Elizabeth Sick on 15 Mar 09
     
    The government in the United Arab Emirates is showing television programs that display proper behavior for girls. This is in response to transsexual and homosexual activity, or as the UAE puts it, "masculine behavior" in girls that is common throughout the country.
Katie Kiraly

Rotten Gods: Scalded headscarf on international women's day - 0 views

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shared by Katie Kiraly on 11 Mar 09 - No snapshot
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    Katie Kiraly on 11 Mar 09
     
    Sara Azmeh Rasmus, a women rights activist burned her headscarf in protest to gender apartheid in Muslim countries.
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