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...Fayza, 21, proudly thumbs through a catalogue featuring products she and her colleagues created. "It is amazing to see how this work leaves our hands and is worn by women everywhere," she says. "We feel so appreciated and motivated to produce more and more." And the work has brought financial independence for Fayza and her friends, who are now in a position to make purchases without first asking the males of their households...
...some 300 men and women came to celebrate a breakthrough political victory. After a nine-hour parliamentary debate, and six long years of delay, a bill granting women the right to vote and to run for public office finally passed. "Our hearts are overflowing with joy and happiness," exulted Fayza al-Awadhi, a member of the Kuwaiti Women's Cultural & Social Society. Giving women the vote was first debated in 1999, but was blocked by conservative Islamic members of the all-male parliament. Even last week, more than a third of members voted against the reform, even though the government...
Married. Emir Abdul Illah, 35, dapper, Anglophile regent and heir apparent to the throne of Iraq; and Fayza el Traboulsi, 22, daughter of a well-heeled Egyptian army officer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Bagdad...
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