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Arab women are under-represented in parliaments in Arab states, although they are gaining more equal representation as Arab states liberalise their political systems. In 2005, the International Parliamentary Union said that 6.5 per cent of MPs in the Arabic-speaking world were women, up from 3.5 per cent in 2000.
It was the first film by a female Arabic speaker to confront the taboo of sexual violence against Arab women, who are frequently forced into silence to preserve their family’s honor. [3] The film chronicles the stories of five women who experienced sexual abuse as young girls, some of them being victimized by their own family members.
Qiyān (Arabic: قِيان, Arabic:; singular qayna, Arabic: قَينة, Arabic:) were a social class of women, trained as entertainers, which existed in the pre-modern Islamic world. The term has been used for women who were both free, including some of whom came from nobility, and non-free women. [ 1 ]
Pages in category "Arabic-language feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 217 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Data from the World Bank offers the figures that 39 of every 1,000 girls ages 15–19 gave birth in the Syrian Arab Republic in 2021. [ 32 ] In addition to low access to healthcare services, the COVID-19 pandemic regulations saw staff and patients alike being mistreated and underfuned, and women reported about severe financial limitations and ...
Abeer Qassim Hamza at the age of seven. Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi (Arabic: عبير قاسم حمزة الجنابي ‘Abīr Qāssim Ḥamza al-Janābī; 19 August 1991 – 12 March 2006), [4] [5] lived with her mother and father (Fakhriya Taha Muhasen, 34, and Qassim Hamza Raheem, 45, respectively) and her three siblings: 6-year-old sister Hadeel, 9-year-old brother Ahmed, and 11-year-old ...
In the 2000s, Wadjda, a spirited 10-year-old living in Riyadh, dreams of owning a green bicycle that she passes at a store every day on her way to school.She wants to race her friend Abdullah, a boy from her neighborhood, but riding bikes is frowned upon for girls and Wadjda's mother refuses to buy one for her.
Miss Arab World (Arabic: مسابقة ملكة جمال العرب) is an annual regional beauty pageant in the Arab World. [1] The contest seeks to select the Arab girl that best represents her country based on traditional Arab customs and traditions.