Habib Toumi

A Jewish Bahraini will chair the elections monitoring committee of a human rights organization, the head of the NGO has said.

“We have formed our committee to monitor the legislative and municipal elections scheduled for this autumn,” Faisal Fuladh, the head of the Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS) has said. “It will be chaired by Menashe Cohen and will include Ghada Ihsan.”

Menashe, BHRWS deputy secretary general, is a member of the 47-strong Jewish community in Bahrain.

The former leader of BHRWS was Huda Nonoo who made history by becoming the Arab world’s first Jewish woman to head a human rights organization. She made history again by becoming the first, and so far the only, Arab Jewish ambassador to Washington, a post that she still holds. continue reading…

Police in Kuwait are seeking to solve the mystery of an Ethiopian domestic helper who committed suicide one hour after arriving in the country.

According to Al Dar daily, the maid, who was not named, was found dead shortly after she entered her new room to arrange her belongings. The house owner’s wife said that she discovered her lying on the room floor with a rope around her neck. continue reading…

Dr Tabrizi - Gulf Times

A faculty member of Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) is working with physicians in Qatar and elsewhere to improve treatment of ovarian cancer and decode the genetics related to the disease.

“Ovarian cancer may not be the most common cancer facing women, but it is one of the most lethal,” Dr Jeremie Arash Rafii Tabrizi, assistant professor of genetic medicine in obstetrics and gynaecology, said, quoted by Qatari daily Gulf Times.

Ovarian cancer has traditionally been difficult to detect early because while ultrasounds pick up on changes in the ovaries, they do not convey what a doctor needs to make a clear diagnosis. continue reading…

More than 123,000 people left Kuwait over the weekend through the country’s various exit points.

The exodus followed the announcement of the exam results and resulted in massive congestions on the way to the airport or at the land exit points.

People had to be very resilient and wait for hours amid queues that stretched more than five kilometres near the Salmi border exit.

Tension was high palpable at the airport where passengers had to stand in long queues for the check in and were concerned they would miss their flights. continue reading…