Word: shahnaz
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...This program is a threat to Islam. This is entertainment for animals." SHAHNAZ RABI'I, 34-year-old Bahraini teacher, criticizing an Arab version of Big Brother, which had six men and six women cohabiting in a house?with a coed lounge, a prayer room and segregated bedrooms?for a week before it was taken...
...came back to Kabul to join his wife and six children, and for two months they have been trying to rebuild. They sleep towards the back of the property, some in a canvas tent too hot to enter during the day, the rest under a tarp. Khalil's wife Shahnaz once worked as a teacher, but she has suffered from severe depression since her father, a civilian, was killed during the earlier Soviet war. She spends much of her time in one of Kabul's few functioning hospitals, but this morning Khalil thought he could bring her home...
...Shahnaz Abdul is something of a feminist in Afghanistan. Exuding confidence and a no-nonsense attitude, she has practiced law for 22 years and is now assigned to the High Court in Kabul. The day the Taliban banned women from working "we were so sad, so angry," she remembers. But after a few months stuck at home, Shahnaz, 43, began reading to keep herself occupied; law books, mostly, and a history of Afghanistan. When the Taliban forced all women to wear the burka, that long all-encompassing cloak that hides women's bodies, faces and identities, Shahnaz bought the cheapest...
...surprising, then, at least to western sensibilities, that four months after the overthrow of the ideologues Shahnaz still wears the burka whenever she leaves the house. Westerners expected the end of the Taliban to be followed immediately by the shedding and shredding of what we saw as one of their most visible symbol of oppression. And in the first few days after the Taliban's ouster we rejoiced in the pictures of Afghan women peeling off their burkas to feel the sun on their faces. But Shahnaz says we got it all wrong. The burka itself is not oppressive; what...
...rotated among royalty every five years. RETIREMENT ANNOUNCED. Of DICK ARMEY, 65, the House of Representatives Republican majority leader since 1995; in Washington, D.C. Armey, extolled by fellow Texan George W. Bush for his tax-cutting agenda, will step down after completing his term in January 2003. AWARDED. SHAHNAZ BOKHARI, 45, a Pakistani psychologist and publisher, the Weimar's Human Rights Prize for sheltering and tending to victims of domestic violence; in Weimar, Germany. Bokhari, outspoken about women's rights, is seeking to abolish the Pakistani tradition of condemning to death women who commit adultery. DIED. LARRY COSTELLO...