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An important contributing factor to the violence exercised on women in the Arab world is the idea of ta’ah (obedience). It is a religio-cultural idea which suggests that women and men are equal before God, however, their responsibilities are not the same. In addition, ta’ah justifies men’s physical abuse over women.
Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. The photograph, taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry near the Pakistani city of Peshawar , appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic .
A woman in Saudi Arabia wearing a plain-cloth black niqab. A niqāb or niqaab ( / nɪˈkɑːb /; Arabic: نقاب ), also known as a ruband ( Persian: روبند ), is a long garment worn by some Muslim women in order to cover their entire body and face, excluding their eyes. It is an interpretation in Islam of the concept of hijab, and is worn ...
Women in Palestine. Portrait by the American Colony Photo Department of an Arab woman from Ramallah dressed in a traditional embroidered costume, taken sometime between 1929 and 1946. The lives of Palestinian women have transformed throughout many historical changes including Ottoman control, the British Mandate, and Israeli control. The ...
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. During the early stages of the Iraq War, members of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. These abuses included physical abuse, sexual humiliation, physical and ...
A report titled 100 Years of Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim stereotyping by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, director of media relations for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, describes what some in the Arab-American community call "the three B syndrome": "Arabs in TV and movies are portrayed as either bombers, belly dancers, or billionaires" a ...
The following is a list of presenters with Al Jazeera Media Network, the international news conglomerate, based in Doha and financed by the Qatari government.In recent years Al Jazeera developed a presence in the global English-language broadcasting sector, firstly with the Al Jazeera English channel and then with the purchase of Current TV, which led to the launch of the United States-based ...
“Good Girls” is getting an Arabic version, marking the first international adaptation of the Universal Television show about three moms embarking on a life of crime. Titled “Lunch Box ...