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jreyesc

ISIS Video Claims To Show Beheading Of British Aid Worker David Haines - 0 views

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Islamic State ISIS UK Cameron US Haines

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  • jreyesc on 14 Sep 14
     
    Another IS hostage has been beheaded. The hostage was British aid worker was David Haines. According to The Huffington Post, the video showed how IS addressed British PM David Cameron and his policies against the group. Haines had been abducted last year in Syria.
Briana S

British Muslims face worst job discrimination of any minority group, according to research - 0 views

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Great Britain job discrimination Muslim Europe

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  • Briana S on 01 Dec 14
     
    Muslim men were up to 76 per cent less likely to have a job of any kind compared to white, male British Christians of the same age and with the same qualifications. And Muslim women were up to 65 per cent less likely to be employed than white Christian counterparts. These statistics are alarming and very high when it comes to being a Muslim citizen in Great Britain. However these ideas are understandable (or at least not unsuspected) when it comes to the relationships people in Europe vs. Muslims have.
ajonesn

Egypt's Nationality Laws Are Sexist: Men Can Pass on Nationality to Their Wives, While ... - 0 views

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egypt nationality laws pass twitter

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  • ajonesn on 13 Apr 15
     
    While Egyptian men could pass on their nationality to their wives, Egyptian women don't have the same right. One Twitter user, Salma El-Daly, vows to fight this law. She wanted to pass her Egyptian nationality on to her husband, who is British, but soon found out this was illegal for women, but not for men.
  • ajonesn on 13 Apr 15
     
    While Egyptian men could pass on their nationality to their wives, Egyptian women don't have the same right. One Twitter user, Salma El-Daly, vows to fight this law. She wanted to pass her Egyptian nationality on to her husband, who is British, but soon found out this was illegal for women, but not for men.
mwrightc

ISIS video shows British boy dubbed 'Jihadi Junior' blowing up four alleged spies | Dai... - 0 views

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video terrorism british weapons

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  • mwrightc on 10 Feb 16
     
    This video shows shocking footage of a four year old who has joined the fight for ISIS. The young boy has been called "Jihadi Junior" because he blew up four allege spies in a car bomb.
mcooka

Building a Culture of Quality in Higher Education in the MENA Region - 0 views

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culture quality higher higher education morroco

shared by mcooka on 07 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • he Global Education Dialogue conference of the British Council discussed at length some of the global experiences, best practice, challenges and solutions toward Quality Assurance in Education.
  • e conference provided a safe space for candid conversations in formal and informal settings, and a unique opportunity to identify and discuss common challenges and share ideas, insights and experiences that might help to overcome these obstacles and to bridge the gap across the international communities.
  • mcooka on 07 Apr 16
     
    This article focuses on how the British council created a space to discuss the quality of education with other countries educators. Specifically, the moroccan and egyptian educators worked to learn from the UK about quality higher education.
irede123

UK activists call to ban Hezbollah entirely - Europe - News - Arutz Sheva - 0 views

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hezbollah syria Israel

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  • irede123 on 08 May 16
     
    "Activists in the UK have launched a campaign to have Hezbollah officially proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government. The Israel-Britain Alliance is leading the campaign to have Hezbollah officially proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK government. Nearly 20 different organisations, both Jewish and Christian, have thrown their weight behind the initiative so far."
diamond03

Efua Dorkenoo fought against female genital cutting - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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female genital cutting mail egypt revolution

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  • Efua Dorkenoo fought against female genital cutting
  • successful 30-year campaign against the tradition of genital cutting of girls and women,
  • Efua Dorkeno
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  • ied Oct. 18 in London. She was 65.
  • Equality Now, a London-based women’s rights organizatio
  • Dorkenoo started organizations to battle genital cutting and co-ordinated the effort more broadly as acting director of women’s health at the World Health Organization in the late 1990s.
  • She wrote articles and an influential book – Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation (1996) –
  • “warrior in chief
  • “She inspired a generation of feminists across the world to take up the cause of banning the procedure,
  • Last year, the UN General Assembly voted unanimously to recognize female genital cutting as a human-rights violation.
  • British government prosecuted it as a crime for the first time,
  • African-led organization she helped found, The Girl Generation: Together to End FGM, began work this month.
  • practice is declining in many countries
  • teenage girls were less likely to have been cut than older women in half of the 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where the practice is concentrated.
  • In Egypt, where more women have been cut than in any other country, surveys showed that 81 per cent of 15- to 19-year-olds had undergone the practice, compared with 96 per cent of women in their late 40s.
  • Female genital cutting involves pricking, piercing or amputating some or all of the external genitalia
  • vulva is closed, leaving a small hole for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.
  • The practice is believed to have originated about 4,000 years ago in Egypt or the Horn of Africa.
  • 27 countries in Africa
  • Adherents come from a spectrum of faiths, including Christianity, Islam and African religion
  • often ages 4 to 8
  • pathway to womanhood
  • The World Health Organization says female genital cutting has no health benefits and can cause severe bleeding, problems urinating and, later in life, cysts, infections and infertility.
  • intended to reduce women’s sexual pleasure
  • preserve a woman’s virginity until marriage.
  • 125 million women living today in the countries where it is concentrated have experienced such cutting.
  • The mother was so badly scarred, she said, that she could not deliver her baby through natural childbirth.
  • Ms. Dorkenoo began campaigning against the practice in the early 1980s
  • Foundation for Women’s Health and Development to promote the health of African women and girls, with a focus on abolishing female genital cutting
  • co-ordinated national action plans against female genital cutting in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan.
  • In 1994, Queen Elizabeth II named Ms. Dorkenoo an honorary officer in the Order of the British Empire.
  • diamond03 on 03 Nov 14
     
    Efua Dorkenoo recently passed away. She was a women who fought for women's rights and the ban of FGM. She was an inspiration to feminists to take action. 
haitham10

The unlovable Saudis | The Guardian BAE investigation | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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saudi corruption Willie Morris investigation

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  • haitham10 on 05 Dec 14
     
    Willie Morris [biography], the British ambassador from 1968 to 1972 talks about his experience working in Saudi and corruption
atownen

Explorers reach Doha after 49-day desert trek | GulfNews.com - 0 views

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Oman trek Qatari capital

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  • atownen on 03 Feb 16
     
    A team of trekkers finished their 57-day journey across the deserts of Oman through Saudi Arabia, to Doha. They wanted to recreate the experience which was achieved by British civil servant and Arabist Bertram Thomas, who completed the journey in 49 days.
micklethwait

Syrian children found in Turkish garment factories making British high street brands - ... - 0 views

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children turkish garment british

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  • micklethwait on 04 Feb 16
     
    I always take RT news with a grain of salt--they always seem to choose stories that make Russia's opponents look especially bad. But maybe they really are?
cthomase

Libya... Britain's next Afghan disaster? UK colonel warns of 'mission creep' - 0 views

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war isis Libya revolution

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  • cthomase on 11 Apr 16
     
    British plans to send troops to Libya could result in another Afghanistan-style disaster, according to a former army colonel who led a "calamitous" mission in the war-ravaged North African state in 2012. Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Wieloch told the Telegraph on Monday that British involvement carried " a great danger of mission creep.
mcooka

The kingdom is king | The Economist - 0 views

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arab egypt college education

shared by mcooka on 31 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • But Saudi Arabia is gaining an unlikely reputation for learning in the Middle East. Earlier this year it gained three of the top four spots in an annual ranking of Arab universities by Times Higher Education (THE), a British weekly magazine. Topping the chart was King Abdulaziz University in the western city of Jeddah, which was founded only in 1967.
  • The kingdom rarely pulls things off as well as, let alone better than, its more savvy fellow Gulf states.
  • ut by world standards, Arab universities do not offer students a very good deal. King Abdulaziz only just made it into the global top 300. Teaching in the Arab world tends to emphasise rote learning rather than developing analytical skills.
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  • who are assigned to subjects according not to their own choice, but to their school grades. Medicine, engineering and political science require high results. Low-scorers are concentrated in arts, business and education courses.
  • The very wealthy send their sons and daughters abroad. Many never come back, contributing to a brain drain in the Arab world.
  • mcooka on 31 Mar 16
     
    In Egypt there is a university which has been promoted as the ebst school in the Middle East. Except, it is very limited. It does not offer a reason to develop analytical skills, so often their students do poorly in the job world. in Egypt students are assigned a major and classes based off of their grades, they do not get to pursue what they want. 
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