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...arrested by the mutawwa, or religious police, for being alone in a room with 40 women. Gulf conservatives may rail against women driving, showing their hair or voting, but opposition to women investors has been muted. "You don't see [extremists] worrying about women investing," says Rola Dashti, the first woman elected as chair of the Kuwait Economic Society...
...tapping into this market, it clearly pays to be sensitive to the social and cultural dynamics of the region. But ultimately the key, as with male clients, is to offer financially compelling products. When an investment firm recently asked Dashti how to market its services to women, the meeting was short: "Go back to the ABCs of business," she said. "If you have a good product, women will...
...ROLA DASHTI, economist and candidate in Kuwait's parliamentary elections last week, urging women to cast ballots in the first poll in which they were allowed to run or vote. No woman was elected...
...from a different position. Bashir was on the radio asking for backup. Finally some of his scouts arrived and brought out the survivors. One journalist, Johanne Sutton, was shot multiple times in the leg and chest, and she died before they could get her to the clinic in Dashti Qala, which is about 3 miles away from the frontline. Two other journalists - Volker and Pierre Billaud of RTL Radio - had been left behind. According to an Afghan interpreter who was with them, they were injured and so they could not run to catch up with the APC once they fell...
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