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...summit at Sharm al-Sheikh, the Egyptian Sinai resort....
...It has called on the UK to impose sanctions for alleged human rights abuses on DIB’s chair Mohammed Al Shaibani as regards Cornelius’s disproportionate sentence and what it sees as the cruel treatment and...
...By Tim Auld Al Fassia, Marrakech In 1987, Mohammad Chab and his wife Lalla Fatima came up with the radical plan of opening a restaurant only run and cooked in by women....
...During the three-day visit the pontiff also held a historic iconic interfaith meeting with the most eminent Shia Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani....
...Iran has been one of the main backers of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad during his country’s eight-year civil war....
...Last week marked the 19th anniversary of one such event: the landmark Supreme Court decision handing the US presidency to George W Bush over Al Gore....
...Aziza al-Yousef and Eman al-Nafjan, prominent activists who campaigned to lift the ban on women driving, were released as well as Rokaya al-Mohareb, a female preacher and university professor, people familiar...
...But ALQST, a London-based rights group, said seven people were taken into custody in a wave of arrests on Thursday, including Badr al-Ibrahim, a doctor and writer, and Salah al-Haidar, whose mother, Aziza...
...Eleven women’s rights activists, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Aziza al-Yousef and Eman al-Nafjan, did go on trial this month....
...Warm embrace Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe hugs her daughter Gabriella, in Iran. Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been allowed to leave an Iranian prison for three days....
...The embargo of Qatar by Gulf states, including the Saudis and the UAE, was a reaction to Doha backing Islamists and transmitting their message via Al Jazeera....
...Since succeeding Boris Johnson as foreign secretary in July, he has taken up the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian citizen jailed in Tehran....
...The detainees include Aziza al-Yousef, a veteran women’s rights advocate, Eman al-Nafjan, a linguist known for her blog “Saudiwoman,” and Loujain al-Hathloul who was first arrested four years ago after she...
...She will also hold talks with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, where she will raise the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian mother imprisoned in Iran over allegations of spying....
...asked Aziza al-Yousef, a leading campaigner. Saudi Arabia’s suffragettes certainly have a long way to go. The ban on driving is still in place despite repeated campaigns by women....
...Aziza Yousef, one of the campaigners, insists the pressure has to be kept up. “If you don’t talk about your rights no one will give them to you – the government will think you are happy,” she says....
...A 10-minute drive towards the city brings you to the Mosaic Palais Aziza, yet another hotel primed to open this summer, this time the property of the Saudi Prince Bandar, whose own immense palace stands...
...Al-Amal bank in Yemen is an example of successful innovation....
...One, who gave her name as Aziza, said: “My father and brother were arrested. We don’t know where they are now.”...
...Aziza Abdullah had always regarded Saudi Arabia’s Shia minority with suspicion and curiosity....
...Some of the larger slum communities had become breeding grounds for extremism, spread by unauthorised mosques preaching admiration for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda....
...During three days of cookery classes at La Maison Arabe, Mme Aziza, the restaurant’s chef, did her best to imbue our class of six westerners with some of her age-old culinary wisdom....
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