Word: isha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Talilah Katz, a thirtysomething advertising executive who fits easily into Tel Aviv's chic yuppie milieu and is representative of the modern, liberated young Israeli women contemptuous of the macho and militaristic values woven through their society. ``A fine movie, well produced and well acted,'' summed up l`Isha, a women's publication, and added, ``For a change, Tel Aviv doesn't look like it is part of a third-world country.'' Fox financed his $600,000 film from government grants and private investors, who are gambling that the movie will be a box-office success not only in Israel...
...wives of the Prophet Muhammad were vibrant, outspoken women. His first, Khadija, ran a prosperous trading business and at one point was Muhammad's employer. A'isha, the Prophet's favorite, was at various times a judge, a political activist and a warrior. Among Muhammad's 11 other wives and concubines were a leatherworker, an imam and an advocate of the downtrodden, revered in her day as the "Mother of the Poor...