Archive for July, 2010

Ethiopian helper commits suicide one hour after arriving in Kuwait

July 4, 2010
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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...
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Qatar-based professor seeks to decode ovarian cancer genetics

July 4, 2010
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Qatar-based professor seeks to decode ovarian cancer genetics

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...
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More than 123,000 people left Kuwait over the weekend for summer vacations

July 4, 2010
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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...
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Qatar moves towards protecting marine resources and boosting fast depleting fish stock

July 3, 2010
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Qatar’s Crown Prince Shaikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani has issued a law that will help protect the country’s marine resources and boost fast depleting fish stock. Law 11/2010 sets up a Marine Resource Protection Committee, headed by an Undersecretary from the Ministry of Environment, that will include representatives from Ministry of Interior, Qatar...
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Qatar-based Filipinos have high hopes new president would honour anti-corruption pledge

July 3, 2010
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Filipinos in Qatar have expressed high hopes that the new Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino II would honour his inaugural speech pledge to reform the government from corruption and look after their welfare. Frank Jamandre, Chairman of Filipino Nurses Association in Qatar (FNAQ), welcomed the new president’s commitment for change by leading himself as...
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Two Bahraini and 13 Asian fishermen reach Bahrain from Qatar

July 1, 2010
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Two more Bahraini and 13 Asian Bahrain-based fishermen returned to Manama on Thursday afternoon following their release by the Qatari authorities. Only one Bahraini, Adel Al Taweel, now remains in Qatari custody and will know his fate next Thursday when he appears before a Qatari court for allegedly entering Qatari waters illegally and not...
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US pressured Turkey-Israel into holding secret meeting in Switzerland

July 1, 2010
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The secret meeting between Turkey’s foreign minister and an Israeli minister official in Switzerland was apparently held due to pressure from the Obama administration, sources in Israel said on Thursday. The White House prompted and coordinated the meeting between Israeli Industry, Trade, and Labor Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, the...
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Kuwaiti Policewomen tasked with tackling “immoral” shopping malls behaviour

July 1, 2010
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Kuwait has launched an all-women moral police whose tasks include a fight on genderqueers, transsexuals and transvestites, a Kuwaiti daily said. “The special police force will patrol shopping centres and marina clubs throughout Kuwait and will chase women imitating men and men imitating women (transvestites),” Alam Al Yawm reported. The policewomen, in their fight...
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Bahrain fishermen return home from Qatar amid hope crisis will be over soon

July 1, 2010
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Nine Bahrain-based fishermen who were released by Qatar last Thursday are now home in Bahrain amid a deluge of good wishes. The seven Bahraini and two Asian men said that they could not leave Qatar because of the bad weather and that they were grateful to be home after an ordeal that last several...
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Private university rejects charges it disregards Arabic

July 1, 2010
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A private university in Bahrain has rejected criticism that it disregarded Arabic, the country’s official language, after it conducted its first batch graduation ceremony in English. “The graduates this year are from 13 nationalities and most of them do not understand Arabic,” Riyadh Dhaif, Deputy Registrar at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland-Medical...
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Born August 3, 1960 in Monastir, Tunisia
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Media career:
  • ABC News (Tunisia)
  • Bahrain Tribune
  • Gulf News
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  • University of Bahrain
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  • MA  Mass Communications, University of Leicester
  • BA  in English & US literature and studies, University of Tunis
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