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...must swim. For these women, there are only two answers: a clever outfit that breathes or sequestration in a same-sex exercise facility. The athletic veil, known as the hijood, is made from high-tech fabric that's meant to wick sweat off the skin. It debuted when the Bahraini sprinter Rogaya Al Ghasara wore it while competing at the 2008 Olympics. While it takes a certain steely piety to wear the hijood - its slick ninja-esque style might be too assertively Muslim for some - the relative ease of sweating or swimming in something other than heavy cotton is pretty...
Rather than risk exposure to the sun, MICHAEL JACKSON settles lawsuit with Bahraini prince...
...Persian Gulf). “I didn’t need to explain myself so much over there,” Fakhro says. Here at Harvard, however, she finds herself fielding questions about her Arab heritage and the location (or existence) of her country.Despite being the lone Bahraini at Harvard, Fakhro doesn’t feel alone. Several organizations at Harvard cater to the international community. The Woodbridge Society, with its many cultural and social events, provides a place for international students to connect—even if you are the only student from your country. HIO for its part...
...getting action from the Saudis, even now, nine months after Tenet had delivered his warnings to Prince Bandar, was anything but easy. Interrogations commenced. CIA operatives could only stand on the sidelines. The questions posed to the prisoners - both the Bahraini group and the two sets of captives in Saudi Arabia - were pointed. Yet compared with what was happening to captured al-Qaeda men Abu Zubaydah or Ramzi Binalshibh at "black sites," these interrogations were polite, respectful. The captives were all religious men. Day after day, they praised Allah and talked about their bonds of religious commitment to one another...
Bokhowa was especially savvy. He was too old to be a courier; he was more an analyst than an operator. He had highly placed friends in the country's community of Islamic activists. If there was a wider plot here, it remained out of sight. The Bahraini trio and the two Saudi trios were clearly tied to one another, but where they fit in a broader array of the region's jihadists was unclear. They did not seem to be tightly connected to several other Saudi cells that were being tracked by the U.S.-Saudi intelligence teams. Nor did they...