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mcooka

US$70 Million to Support Higher Education Reforms and Improved Job Prospects for Gradua... - 0 views

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  • The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a US$70 million project to address the high levels of unemployment among university graduates in Tunisia.
  • he Tertiary Education for Employability Project will build on progress achieved in previous Bank projects in establishing quality assurance mechanisms and linking higher education institutions to the private sector
  • Tunisia has an impressive record in promoting access to education. University enrollment jumped from 8 percent in 1990 to 35 percent in 2011.
  • mcooka on 08 Mar 16
     
    This article works on the ideas of Foreign Aid. The United States is giving foreign aid to improve the job prospects for graduate students in Tunisia. This would fall under the idea of Market Liberalism
pvaldez2

Egyptian Women Are Taking Over Male-dominated Careers - 0 views

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  • pvaldez2 on 08 Mar 16
     
    This article is about Egyptian women taking over male dominated careers. The article interviews a few women, one a butcher and the other a body builder.
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Is Egypt doing enough to counter widespread sexual harassment? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse ... - 0 views

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    The article is about if Egypt is doing enough to counter widespread sexual harassment. The article also discuss the sexual harassment women faced during the 2011 uprising.
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International Women's Day: An Annual Reminder Of Successes And Challenges In Gender Equ... - 0 views

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egyptian women rights equality

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  • pvaldez2 on 08 Mar 16
     
    This article is about International Women's Day, which is celebrated on March 8th every year to recognize women's achievements worldwide. The article describes how it began, why we have international women's day, a history of the women's rights struggle in Egypt, and how this day is an opportunity for change.
eyadalhasan

Saudi Arabia vs. Iran: The Sunni-Shiite Proxy Wars - 0 views

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Shiite Sunni MiddleEast

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  • eyadalhasan on 08 Mar 16
     
    Throughout the Middle East, Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran compete for influence and supremacy via proxy wars in Yemen, Iraq and Syria. Produced by Reem Makhoul, Mark Scheffler and Arielle Ray.
eyadalhasan

How The Donald of Dubai Used Outrageous Marketing To Score A $3 Billion Real Estate For... - 0 views

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Donald billionaire politics

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  • eyadalhasan on 08 Mar 16
     
    New billionaire Hussain Sajwani has transformed the desert skyline with luxury apartments and lavish mansions using outrageous marketing strategies (Free lamborghini, anyone?). He's weathered the 2008 crash and his business partner Donald Trump's politics--so what will he do if oil prices continue to plummet?
ralph0

From the Levant to Libya, This Is How You Beat ISIS - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 07 Mar 16
     
    What a waste of space. All this article says is that, "we must fight ISIS in a way that divides them." It is however my first read that has been about ISIS in Libya, since I was originally more focused on Syria. I would like to see how that turns out, especially since the US is to responsible for this in my opinion. I want to see if the US will wash its hands of this conflict after killing Gaddafi, or if there will be real attempts to stop ISIS in Libya.
ralph0

United Nations News Centre - Syria: water restored in Aleppo after a 48-day shutdown, U... - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 07 Mar 16
     
    It is a relief to see that water is finally making it back to Aleppo. The city has been under siege and civilians have been deprived of water. This article makes a valid point, showing that water has been used as a weapon of war.
ralph0

Turkey shelling Syrian Kurdish militia in northern Aleppo - YPG - RT News - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 07 Mar 16
     
    How is Turkey getting away with this? It is noteworthy that the Aleppo mentioned is not the city, but the province which extends much further north. However, I still fail to understand how countries can get away with blurring lines and breaking international law, while I have to pay simple traffic fines. What will be the response of the idealistic democracies of the West?
ralph0

Syria regime says peace talks to start from March 14 - Yahoo News - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 07 Mar 16
     
    Another article referring to the upcoming peace talks in Geneva on pi day. This one adds on the future plans for the conflict. It mentions that the aim is to successfully implement the ceasefire, create a transitional body, draft a new constitution, and hold fresh elections.
ralph0

Syria rebels clash with Kurds in Aleppo as peace talks approach | World news | The Guar... - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 07 Mar 16
     
    More hope for successful peace talks shown in this article. This concerns a clash between the Kurds and the rebels in the northern part of Syria. It is interesting to follow these conflicts as the US have shown support for the Kurds despite Turkey's complaints. Now, I am unsure what the response will be to the clash with the rebels.
joepouttu

Al-Nusra militants in Syria shell Turkey to prompt return fire - Russian military - RT ... - 0 views

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Syria Al-Nusra Turkey Peace

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  • joepouttu on 07 Mar 16
     
    Al-Nusura fired mortars into Turkey, hoping to initiate a military response. Their goal is to disrupt the advances towards peace that are being made.
sambofoster

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  • sambofoster on 06 Mar 16
     
    Around the world at least one woman in every three has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime. Every year, violence in the home and the community devastates the lives of millions of women.
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  • sambofoster on 06 Mar 16
     
    Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. The procedure has no health benefits for girls and women. Procedures can cause severe bleeding and problems urinating, and later cysts, infections, as well as complications in childbirth and increased risk of newborn deaths.
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Eliminating Female genital mutilation - 0 views

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Women genital mutilation rights

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  • sambofoster on 06 Mar 16
     
    The term 'female genital mutilation' (also called 'female genital cutting' and 'female genital mutilation/cutting') refers to all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. Between 100 and 140 million girls and women in the world are estimated to have undergone such procedures, and 3 million girls are estimated to be at risk of undergoing the procedures every year.
sambofoster

The reality of getting an abortion in Egypt - 0 views

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  • sambofoster on 06 Mar 16
     
    By Gehad Abada, Aswat Masriya When Amira Gamal* walked into the clinic in a murky street in Imbaba, she did not know what to expect or how far off pregnant she was. She arrived before the doctor and read the pamphlets on reproductive health and stages of pregnancy as she waited.
aromo0

Egyptian women campaign for larger role in parliament - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Mi... - 0 views

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  • aromo0 on 05 Mar 16
     
    Egyptian women campaign for a larger role in parliament. The development of this effort has been slow.
aromo0

Behind the Wheel: Egypt's Women Drivers - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

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  • aromo0 on 05 Mar 16
     
    Women in Egypt do not normally drive but Um Waleed has been driving for 30 years. She must face harassment everyday to continue to provide for her family. It includes a documentary.
aromo0

Match Made in Cairo « The Majalla Magazine - 0 views

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  • aromo0 on 05 Mar 16
     
    Women in Egypt experience arranged marriages because there is a stigma around unmarried women. The older a women is the worse the stigma.
  • aromo0 on 05 Mar 16
     
    Women in Egypt experience arranged marriages because there is a stigma around unmarried women. The older a women is the worse the stigma.
aromo0

Egypt's Trouble With Women - The New York Times - 2 views

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  • The first plane to cross the finish line was piloted by a 26-year-old woman named Lotfia El Nadi, Egypt’s first female aviator.
  • father had rejected the idea, but she did not despa
  • “I learned to fly because I love to be free.”
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  • hero and a national treasure in the eyes of Egyptians.
  • Women saw her as an inspiration in their struggle for equal rights
  • women followed her exam
  • Egyptian women made advances in equality throughout the period of the monarchy
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser, women continued to advance, achieving positions in universities, Parliament and the senior judiciary.
  • 22 Arab countries for discrimination in law, sexual harassment and the paucity of female political representation
  • women
  • Egypt’s tradition of moderate Islam recognized women’s rights and encouraged women to study and work.
  • woman’s job is to please her husband and provide offspring.
  • promote female genital mutilation
  • cover her body completely and may not study,
  • women started to wear the
  • cannot even leave the house without her husband’s permission.
  • control women’s sexuality.
  • Wahhabism has influenced all Islamic societies and movements, including Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.
  • until 2005 that sexual harassment became an organized form of retribution against Egyptian women
  • hijab
  • 83 percent of women interviewed had been subjected to sexual harassment at least once, and that 50 percent experienced it on a daily basis.
  • When ultraconservative doctrine dehumanizes women, reducing them to objects, it legitimizes acts of sexual aggression against them.
  • many Egyptian women still went without head scarves, wearing modern Western-style dress, yet incidents of sexual harassment were rare. Now, with the spread of the hijab, harassm
  • The security apparatus paid thugs, known as “beltagiya,” to gang up on a woman attending a demonstration, tear off her clothes and molest her.
  • Dec. 17, 201
  • Tahrir Square in Cairo, soldiers pulled a female protester’s clothes off and dragged her along the ground, stomping on her with their boots
  • victim of the attack became an icon for Egyptian women
  • mocked the victim, blaming her for not staying
  • in the home
  • During the revolution, millions of Egyptian women went out and bravely faced snipers’ bullets
  • rity.
  • President Mohamed Morsi’s later attempt to rewrite the Egyptian Constitution would also have removed the only female judge on the Supreme Constitutional Court.
  • They tried to overturn the law punishing doctors who carried out female genital mutilation, and refused to consider the marriage of minors as a form of human trafficking by claiming that Islam permitted a girl as young as 10 years old to be married.
  • The revolutionaries are fighting for equality
  • trying to strip women of their political and social rights and make them subject to men’s autho
  • 10 female members of Parliament out of a total of 508
  • epresents a future that no one can prevent.
  • diamond03 on 06 Oct 14
     
    This article discusses how women have been treated differently since the beginning of time. Things began to change once women began to stand up for themselves in protests. 
  • aromo0 on 05 Mar 16
     
    Egypt's tradition of was not initially oppressive. The 1973 war in the Middle East introduced Egyptians to Wahhabis values.
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