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...well, glorious. Their triumphs offer a rare chance to forget that trite line, trotted out each Olympiad, about how it's a victory just to be here. For once, they're the best. "In the past, you hardly saw any small nations on the medals table," says i.o.c. member Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco, whose 1984 gold in the women's 400-m hurdles in 1984 was her country's first. "It's globalization in the best sense...
...Nawal Nour, an instructor in obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), won a MacArthur “genius” grant of $500,000 for her work concerning circumcised women. She is founder and director of the African Women’s Health Practice at Brigham Women’s Hospital, the only clinic oriented toward medical treatment and emotional support to African women who have undergone female circumcision in the United States...
...Nawal Nour, an instructor in obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was delivering a baby when she learned that she had won one of this year’s prizes, according to a University press release...
Many Palestinians are going back to the land. Nawal Rabi, 38, spends much of her day hacking out a garden behind her house in Jalazun. She is planting tomatoes, cucumbers and moloquia, an Arab green. With two brothers in jail and her father dead, Nawal struggles just to eat. In Sinjil, a West Bank village nearby, army roadblocks have cut off traffic for the past two months. Unable to drive to market, Hosneyah Khalil feeds her six children with the produce from her fields. She also has bought goats for milk. "We will show them we can live," she says...
Married. Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdulrahman Ibn Faisal Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia; and the daughter of Sheik Nawal el-Shaalan of Damascus; by proxy, in Damascus, where 40 sheiks represented the absent bridegroom. Conqueror of Yahya the Imam of Yemen last year (TIME, May 14, 1934), creator and builder of modern Arabia, towering, bespectacled Ibn Saud has married and divorced more than 100 times, has never exceeded the limit of four wives at one time allowed him by sacred custom...