Women From Saudi Arabia

[ريمه الخاني]

قد كتبت هذا الموضوع في منتدى غربي قبل سنوات وها أنا أنقله الآن هنا ..فإخوتنا وأخواتنا أولى بأن نعرفهم ويعرفوننا..


Women From Saudi Arabia




Here I will introduce some information about some women

from Saudi Arabia ....particulary those who are from my region

Hejjaz....

I hope the information will be new for you



MYI YAMANEE




MYI YAMANEE is a writer...her races are from Makkah.. her father AHmad Yamani was the Minister of Oil during the 60s and 70s

The family name "yamani" comes from the name of"The Yamani corner of KA`AbA"which has its importance according to muslims
her Series grandparents had this name because they used to teach people in the past near that place in the holy mosque in Makkah "which was like a university before centuries in which people used to study different scineces

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Myi Yamanee is an Oxford graduate . she wrote some books related to the
Hijazi culture (Jeddah, Makkah and Madia) and politics.She published some books such as “The Hijaz and the quest for an Arabian
identity”, “Changed Identities”, “Feminism and Islam”, and “Human Rights and
the Judicial Process”
She has a magazine ON the web
http://www.alhejazi.net






because of her bravity and her stronge criticism of the Saudi goverment,especially
the royal Saudi family...many people are considered her as a political opponent.



She is working in chathamhouse Institute in London. She also an anthropology researcher : the Royal Institute Britain, The outstanding political known, prevent her recent book, "changing the identity" from entering the Kingdom, and recently prevented from returning to the country to visit because of the views of anti-extremist Wahabi trend.

SOME IMAGES:


when she was young.



In Oxford University


HER FATHER:

Shaik Ahmad Yamani




her father in the traditional clothes of the people of makkah .












I hope that you get benefit of these information.
I will continue about another woman next time.

bye

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Maha Ahmad AL Fitaihi

The owner of the most famous Literary Salon in Saudi Arabia and in Hejjaz.

She is a Free Social activist ..in the same time a mother of five who

describes herself as a housewife..the wife of Jidda's mayor.

once she said ""We don't want a civil war, we just want this to be an evolutionary

change."



Fitaihi insisted Saudi women are not seeking Western-oriented liberties. ""`We

aspire to gain rights that conform to what Sharia allows and to the nature of our

"""Arab and Muslim traditions





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