Dr. Mona Khashwani Becomes UAE’s First Emirati Physician to Perform Robotic Surgery
New
Age Islam News Bureau
29
June 2022
• Nelly
Attar, Lebanese Mountaineer, Climbing For Women In Pakistan, Middle East
• Iran
Intensifies Social Restrictions, Harassment of Women For Hijab
• Tributes
to Jordanian Lubna Mansour Pour In Following Her Murder In Sharjah
• Asian
Taekwondo C'ships: Iran Women's Team Win Title in S Korea
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Dr.
Mona Khashwani Becomes UAE’s First Emirati Physician to Perform Robotic Surgery
Dr.
Mona Khashwani
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29 June,
2022
Dr.
Mona Abdulaziz Khashwani from Sharjah’s Al Qassimi Women and Children’s
Hospital in the United Arab Emirates has become the country’s first Emirati
physician to perform robotic surgery.
Khashwani,
a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology, performed the robotic surgery using
the advanced Da Vinci system, Emirates Health Services said in a statement on
Wednesday.
“I
sincerely thank the wise leadership, who gave me the opportunity to be one of
the few citizens who carry out this type of high-precision operations for
patients using a robot,” she said.
Khashwani
is one of the UAE’s most experienced doctors in the robotic surgery field. She
graduated from London’s Queen Mary University in 2005 and was then nominated by
the hospital’s Director of Laparoscopic Operations and Robotic Surgery Program,
Dr. Zaki al-Mazki al-Shamsi, to join the women robotics surgeons’ program.
The
Emirati doctor performs total hysterectomy, supra-cervical hysterectomy and the
operations to remove of fibroid tumors, ovarian cysts, and adhesions, among
others.
“I
have spent countless hours after my shift using the surgical simulator for
training and studying how the robotic system operates,” she said.
“This
qualified me to receive a license to perform gynaecologic robotic surgery using
the advanced Da Vinci surgical robot from the IRCAD Training Center in
Strasbourg, France,” Khashwani added.
Launched
in 1999, Da Vinci is an automated surgical system that performs minimally
invasive procedures and is considered to be one of the most accurate systems of
its kind in the world. It is the first FDA recognized safe and effective
surgical tool that performs complex surgeries, often involving small incisions,
which shortens patients’ hospital stays, ensures faster recovery, and reduces
the need for pain killers after operation.
Source:
Al Arabiya
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Nelly
Attar, Lebanese Mountaineer, Climbing For Women In Pakistan, Middle East
Nelly
Attar with Ama Dablam mountain, in Nepal, in the background, Nov. 29, 2021.
(Courtesy: @nellyattar/Instagram)
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Revathi
Krishnan
27
June, 2022
Pakistan
is witnessing its busiest mountaineering season since the 9/11 attacks with
summiteers from across the world — US, Europe, China, Russia etc — attempting
to set new records. Among these, is also the first Arab woman to attempt to
scale K2.
Nelly
Attar, a Lebanese mountaineer, raised in Saudi Arabia, began her journey to the
second highest mountain on 20 June and wants to use her climbs as a way to
inspire women in Pakistan and across the Middle East.
“I
am embarking on the most challenging journey to climb K-2…I feel like there’s
so much unknown, there’s so much to this journey that we will be embarking on,
so I’m very excited”, Attar said in an interview to an Arab news channel in
Islamabad. She also said that she had been planning to summit the mountain for
the past three years.
Standing
at 8,610m, K2 is also called the ‘Savage Mountain’ and regarded to be among the
most difficult climbs. Till now, less
than 20 women across the world have submitted K2. Attar summited Mount Everest
in 2019.
The
tourist department of Gilgit Baltistan has already issued over 700 permits to
climbers, according to the secretary of Pakistan’s Alpine Club Karrar Haidri.
Pakistan has a vibrant mountaineering culture, as it is home to five of the
world’s 14 eight-thousander peaks, including K2. Besides K2, which is the
second-highest peak in the world, Pakistan is also home to Nanga Parbat,
Gasherbrum-I, Gasherbrum – II and Broad Peak.
Pakistan
expects to host over 1,400 mountaineers from across the globe. This is a marked
rise from the 550 climbers last year.
The
summer alpine
Haidri
credited this busy mountaineering season to the introduction of online visas
and the peaceful conditions in Pakistan. Speaking to Dawn, home secretary Iqbal
Hussian said that the Gilgit-Baltistan government and army had multiple arrangements
in place in case of an emergency, to rescue climbers.
For
this extremely busy mountaineering season, over 3,000 porters have also been
hired by several expedition teams.
In
the busy mountaineering season, Pakistan’s very own mountaineers will also be
participating, including the likes of Sajid Ali Sadpara, who lost his father
and famous mountaineer Ali Sadpara to K2 last year. Besides Sadpara, there are
about 40 other local mountaineers such as Sheroze Kashif, Samina Baig, Naila
Kiani, Sirbaz Khan and Abdul Joshi.
The
current season is known as the summer alpine, and regarded to be the most
popular season to climb in. Pakistan also made news in the winter climbing
season, when an all Nepalese team of 10 climbers, most of them sherpas,
summited K2 in the winter for the first time, in January 2021.
Source:
The Print
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Iran
Intensifies Social Restrictions, Harassment Of Women For Hijab
6/27/2022
The
government in Iran is intensifying social restrictions, including closing cafés
and detaining women for “improper” hijab, reports on social media indicate.
Latest
news received from the southern historic city of Shiraz say that security
forces and ‘morality police’ shut down several cafés and are pressuring others
to strictly enforce hijab rules. The same process is taking place in other
cities, including Tehran.
The
hijab or morality police have also expanded patrols in streets, stopping women
they believe are not wearing their headscarves properly or for other dress code
violations. These law enforcement units are all accompanied by special vans,
and they push women into these vehicles for further questioning, admonishment,
or arrest.
There
have been many recorded incidents in recent months showing women resisting the
morality police who use force to push them into their patrol vans. One
journalist in Tehran tweeted on Monday that morality police are using new
tactics to convince women to enter the vans without making a bigger scene in
public. Reportedly, authorities while they have decided to harass citizens are
also concerned about a backlash and incidents that could lead to street
protests.
A
video that went viral on June 23 showed dozens of teenage boys and girls in
Shiraz congregating in a park and mingling freely, which is forbidden according
to the Islamic rules in the country. Most of the girls had no headscarves and
the incident turned into a major issue.
The
government immediately announced that the organizers of the gathering were
arrested while many ordinary Iranians on social media expressed satisfaction
that teenagers defy the religious rules.
One
Shiraz resident complained on social media that authorities are taking away
what little exists for relaxation and socializations, by closing down cafés.
Another
viral video on Sunday [June 26] showed a woman screaming profanities at a
cleric who stopped her in a supermarket to admonish her for inadequate hijab.
Some on social media commented that clerics do not object to doubling and
tripling of prices in a matter of weeks but are upset by hijab infringements.
Young
people in Tehran are also complaining about increasing pressure on café owners
not to force clients with loose headscarves to cover their heads properly.
There are also reports about taxi drivers telling women to cover themselves
properly, out of concern that they would be stopped by the police.
In
recent weeks, the economic situation in Iran has deteriorated with prices of
daily necessities doubling and tripling almost overnight and protests breaking
out around the country.
No
one knows if the enforcement of strict religious rules is related to the
authorities trying to show force, but some citizens see the effort as a scheme
to pit people against one another.
Massoud
Jafari, a café owner twitted that he is constantly harassed by morality police
who walk in anytime they want and accuse him of running a business promoting
“prostitution”, insulting him and his customers.
Last
week, 120 people touring a nature reserve were arrested and accused of dancing
and drinking alcohol.
There
is also pressure on female singers who entertain in private wedding parties.
One local prosecutor in Hormozgan province on Sunday announced the arrest of
four female singers. “If these acts continue, both the performers and persons
organizing the wedding party will be arrested,” he announced.
Source:
Iran Intl
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202206271624
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Tributes
to Jordanian Lubna Mansour Pour In Following Her Murder In Sharjah
28
June, 2022
Tributes
have been pouring in for a Jordanian woman of Palestinian origin who was
stabbed to death by her husband in Sharjah on Friday afternoon.
The
woman, identified on social media as Lubna Mansour, was stabbed several times
in a parking lot near her residence in the United Arab Emirates’ city of
Sharjah. Her husband was identified as the suspect and caught by Sharjah Police
within two hours of the murder.
Her
picture was widely shared on social media following the incident, and her name
has been trending since. Hundreds of tributes have poured in for the victim,
who was a graduate from Jordan’s University of Science and Technology.
The
police did not publicly identify the victim or her attacker and have not yet
confirmed Jordanian media reports that claimed her husband was the murderer.
According
to Jordanian media, the woman in her 20s was killed due to a family dispute. A
relative of the victim published a statement about the crime, confirming her
identity.
Lyaz
Mansour, the victim’s sister, shared a picture of Mansour on Instagram with the
caption: “With all my sadness and sorrow, we mourn my dear sister Lubna Waleed
Mansour, asking Allah Almighty to rest her in peace and grant us patience.”
“Lubnah
Mansour was stabbed by her husband 15 times in the UAE. Femicide is horrible
and the death penalty should be used. The days of our silence and suppression
are numbered. Our lives are not as cheap as you make them to be,” a Twitter
user said.
“Going
to sleep now. Wondering whose name we’re hearing on the news tomorrow. Wondering
which girl amongst us is having her last day, today,” said another Twitter
user.
Mansour’s
murder comes within a week after two similar crimes were committed in Jordan
and Egypt.
Jordanian
university student Iman Arsheed was fatally shot at her university campus in
Jordan, and in Egypt, Nayiera Ashraf was slaughtered at the gate of her
university in Mansourah.
The
horrific crimes have sparked uproar on social media, raising awareness on the
increase in violence against women.
Source:
Al Arabiya
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Asian
Taekwondo C'ships: Iran women's team win title in S Korea
28
June 2022
The
Iranian Women’s Taekwondo Team have made History by winning the 25th edition of
the Asian Championships in South Korea.
Having
won three gold medals, two silvers and one bronze, the Iranian Women’s team
concluded the event with 500 points for their 1st title.
Nahid
Kiani won gold in the minus 53 weight class, while Akram Khoda-bandeh, and
Zahra Pour-Esmail also snatched gold.
Mobina
Ne’mat-zadeh and Nastarn Valizadeh settled for Silver in the minus 49 and minus
62 kg categories, and Zahra Sheidaee picked-up Iran’s only bronze.
China
finished second with 379 points, 32 points clear of the host nation South
Korea. In the men’s event, Team Iran finished 5th, with three silver medals and
one bronze.
Source:
Press TV
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/06/28/684713/Iran-women-win-taekwondo-title
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