In Booming Gulf, Some Arab Women Find Freedom in the Skies

New York Times by Katherine Zoepf | Dec. 22, 2008 (Special Report)

Flight attendants have become the public face of the new mobility for some young Arab women, just as they were the face of new freedoms for women in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. They have become a subject of social anxiety and fascination in much the same way. Full Story »

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Subjects: World, Politics, Business, Living, Religion
Topics: Religion and Politics, Transportation, Women, Islam, Social Change
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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Dec 22, 2008 - 12:56 AM PST
Reviewed by: Derek Hawkins (review), Kaizar Campwala (review), Ericka Beavers (review), Andrew Roland (review), Glenn LaBauve (review), Matt Collette (review), Rosemary Graham-Gardner (review)
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Edited by: Fabrice Florin - Dec 22, 2008 - 11:14 AM PST

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Derek Hawkins
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 by Derek Hawkins - Dec. 22, 2008
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Kaizar Campwala
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Dec. 22, 2008
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Rosemary Graham-Gardner
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 by Rosemary Graham-Gardner - Dec. 23, 2008

It is a fairly good report about what is going on in this new carreer for many Arab Women.

Believe it or not. but this is history revisited! I went through the same thing in the mid sixties in Europe and my parents were not Muslims! My family, still has not forgiven me for leaving my hometown and country. I am a frustrated investigative journalist, but my father would have rather seen me as a pharmacist or in the medical field so he could control me...

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Andrew Roland
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 by Andrew Roland - Dec. 22, 2008
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