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POPSTwo slightly related news reports Girl Power! The amendment to the judiciary law will make the UAE the second Gulf Arab country to allow women to become judges, ending a male domination of the vocation, according to the Middle East Times
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POPSDNA uniting factor in Lebanon
Geneticist Pierre Zalloua has charted the spread of the Phoenicians out of the eastern Mediterranean by identifying an ancient type of DNA which some Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians share with Maltese, Spaniards and Tunisians A seafaring civilization which reached its zenith between 1200 and 800 BC, the Phoenicians' earliest cities included Byblos, Tyre and Sidon on Lebanon's coast. Their link to Lebanon, has long been a subject of controversy in a country split between an array of religious communities. "Negotiating these waters is a very delicate job," Zalloua said. Seeking to set themselves apart from their Muslim compatriots, some Lebanese Christians have drawn on the Phoenician past to try to forge an identity separate from the prevailing Arab culture. "Whenever I use the word 'Phoenician', people say 'this guy is trying to say we are not Arabs'," said Zalloua, himself a Christian. After five years of research, his work has shown what Lebanese have in common.
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POPSWorld's Largest Carpet Woven for Worshippers By any measure, it's a marvel—as a work of art, as an article of devotion, as a testament to the richness of hand-made craftwork. But who's going to take it outside and beat it? Long known for its delicate and ornate Persian rugs, Iran has recently been losing market share to cheaper Asian manufacturers, according to industry reports
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POPS Breaking repression, Saudi style About 150 gang members emerged from Jeddah's shadows. The graffiti died down after the scheme was introduced but some rogue graffiti artists remain Jeddah gangs benefit from being from powerful families. Ordinary Saudis who dare to paint graffiti can pay a heavy price. A teenager in the northern desert town of Hafr Al Baten was sentenced in February to 60 lashes of the whip and fined 2,000 riyals for defacing walls in his school
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POPSIsraeli textbook gives Arab view Official Israeli histories of the country's establishment, especially those written for schoolchildren, have typically focused on the heroism of Israeli forces and glossed over the Palestinian flight, attributing the mass exile to voluntary escape if mentioning it at all.
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POPS Call to tap hidden water under desert Al Baz said radar images of Arab deserts have revealed numerous courses of rivers and streams that led to depressions where lakes have formed. Al Baz is behind the recently announced 1000 Wells For Darfur programme.
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POPS Families 'will refuse to hire a Saudi housekeeper' "Not a long time ago, Al-Riyadh, the Arabic newspaper published an advertisement stating, 'Saudi female house manager ...wanted,' at that time many people expressed their anger about it and asked: Have Saudi women reached the point where they have to work as housemaids?" whats so special about Saudi women? what do they have that women from other Asian countries dont have?
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POPS'Cover up or we will cut your throats' On Sunday, around 50 anchors and employees from government-run Palestine TV, mostly women wearing Muslim headscarves, marched from the station's offices in Gaza City toward the office of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to protest the threat.
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POPSSaudis waking up I don't in any way support violence, but I'm glad to see that young Saudis are waking up. I think the time has come for a major rebellion of sorts so that the Saudis can join the modern world. I was very happy to read about the number of women increasing in their workforce
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POPSThings beginning to look up for Saudi women Observers believe that the Saudi society's view to type of works undertaken by women began to change as a number of women have been seen working as security guards in some companies and government departments
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POPSSaudi Arabia gears up to welcome Haj pilgrims "Overcrowding is a perennial worry but this time, regional tension between Shiites and Sunnis has heightened security concerns while authorities remain on the look-out for Al Qaida-linked militant violence - a fear in recent years."
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POPSGhaf - National Tree of UAE "The Emirates Wildlife Society and the World Wide Fund for Nature (EWS-WWF) with the support of Al Fahim Group launched a campaign to designate the ghaf as the national tree, Bedouin gave it their full support."
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POPSTen Ways to Make Sure That Peace Stays Dead Too many people on each side see the other as wholly culpable. Too many people on each side see themselves as wholly innocent, wholly victimized, ill-served by the well-meaning, abandoned by former allies, betrayed by the media, misunderstood by people who should know better, forgotten by the world. Too many people on each side see only the suffering that has been caused them. Too many people have learned to wall themselves off from the suffering that they have caused.
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