Zainab, the Green-Eyed Afghan Child Begging Food on Kabul Streets
New
Age Islam News Bureau
30
November 2021
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Egypt Appoints, Moushira Khattab, First Woman President of National Council for
Human Rights
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Cairo World Premiere for Jordanian Film Highlighting Arab Women’s Issues
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Finland’s Secret School for Children of Daesh Fighters in Iraq
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At Death's Door, Turkish Woman Delivers Miracle Baby
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Gwadar Women Protest for Rights, End To ‘Illegal Trawler Fishing’
•
German Court to Rule on Ex-IS Member in Yazidi Girl's Death
•
Spotify Celebrates 1 Year of Women-Focused Program Sawtik
•
Egypt to Launch New Initiative Targeted At Women in December 2021
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Zainab, the Green-Eyed Afghan Child Begging Food on Kabul Streets
Zainab
an 8-year-old Afghan girl
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29
Nov 2021
The
green-eyed Afghan girl whose videos and photos are being widely circulated on
social media these days is a child beggar on Kabul streets in search of food as
well as looking to find her lost addicted father.
Zainab
is an 8-year-old Afghan girl, originally from Parwan province, but has been
internally displaced due to poverty, war and violence and is now living in
Kabul with her mother and 5 siblings.
Firoz
Sidiqy, a Khaama Press journalist and photographer went to visit her on Sunday,
found Zainab’s home through her uncle who works as a cleaner in Kabul municipality.
Zainab’s
uncle initially did not allow the journalist to meet her saying there is an
order by the Taliban that no more journalists shall talk to the girl.
“Taliban
has said that anyone would like to help the family is most welcome, but taking
videos and photographs are not permitted”, Zainaibs uncle told Khaama Press.
After
a continuous request by Firoz, a mobile number was given by Zainab’s uncle to
call the Taliban member and seek his permission, and eventually, the guy
speaking behind the phone permitted taking some photographs only.
Zainab’s
father has been addicted to narcotics for the last 10 years, he has gone away 7
months ago and never returned back home.
The
little girl does not know where her father has gone to or whether he is alive
or dead.
Zainab
wishes to go to school, a dream which now seems impossible for her to fulfill
both due to the poverty she is in and the closure of schools for the girls in
Afghanistan.
The
girls’ schools doors were shut down as the Taliban returned to power again on
August 15, 2021.
Recently,
Afghanistan’s popular cricket star, Rashid Khan pledged to financially help
Zainab’s family financially and help her go to school.
This
comes as many believe Zainab has unique eyes like Sharbat Gula, the famous
National Geographic green-eyed Afghan girl who has recently been given asylum
in Italy.
Sharbat
Gula was photographed by Steve McCurry, a National Geographic photographer in
1984 when she was a refugee in Peshawar, Pakistan.
The
next year in 1985, Shabat Gula’s picture was published on a back-cover of the
National Geographic magazine and that made her famous fo her unique green eyes.
Source:
Khaama Press
https://www.khaama.com/green-eyed-child-begging-food-on-kabul-streets-loses-addicted-father-78785/
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Egypt
Appoints, Moushira Khattab, First Woman President of National Council for Human
Rights
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undated image of Moushira Khattab. - TWITTER
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November
12, 2021
CAIRO — The Egyptian parliament announced Oct. 4
the formation of the National Council for Human Rights headed by Ambassador
Moushira Khattab, according to Law No. 97 of 2017. The new council is expected
to start working once Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approves its new
formation to the council.
Under
the Egyptian Constitution and laws, the National Council for Human Rights is an
independent council that aims to promote human rights and public freedoms in
accordance with constitutional provisions, in light of international
conventions, covenants and charters ratified by Egypt. The council will aim at
consolidating their values, raising awareness of these rights and contributing
to their implementation.
On
Oct. 25, Sisi announced ending the state of emergency that has been in place
for more than four years, considering that Egypt has become “the region’s oasis
of security and stability,” days after he launched the National Human Rights
Strategy on Sept. 11, and after parliament announced the new formation of the
council.
Since
the end of the Muslim Brotherhood’s rule in 2013, the United States, European
Union and human rights organizations have accused the Egyptian authorities of
violating human rights, arresting oppositionists, restricting freedoms and imprisoning
thousands of detainees, which the authorities deny.
Al-Monitor
tried to contact Khattab but to no avail.
George
Isaac, a new member of the National Council for Human Rights, talked to
Al-Monitor by phone about the council's agenda, saying that the formation of
the council will further help the latter assume an oversight role more
effectively in order to enhance the human rights situation in a way that befits
Egypt’s value as a pivotal country in the region.
He
noted that many of the council’s new members support adopting a draft to amend
pretrial detention-related provisions in the Code of Criminal Procedure. It is
unacceptable, according to him, to detain those who express their opinion.
Seminars and conferences in this regard will be held once the council starts
its work, in a bid to explain the importance of these amendments. He added that
there will be significant cooperation with the parliamentary Human Rights
Committee to approve the necessary legislation in order to release pretrial
detainees.
Isaac
said that another priority for the council is to activate the council’s
complaints committee to investigate all external and internal human rights
complaints, and to communicate with the authorities in charge to end any
injustice and counter any violations.
He
added, “We will be open to the world and international organizations, and we
will lead serious investigations into the complaints they send. We will always
communicate with everyone because the goal is to serve the interest of Egypt
and its people.”
Commenting
on selecting Khattab as the first woman to head the council, ending the state
of emergency and the launch of the national strategy for human rights, Isaac
said that these developments are positive and other steps will hopefully follow
suit, mainly the release of pretrial detainees, and wider civil space for the
opposition, freedoms and civil society.
Commenting
on the new prison complex in northern Egypt, which was inaugurated Oct. 29,
Isaac said that the council will include this prison in its first visits
because it is a priority for the council to check whether the law is being
implemented.
Negad
al-Borai, a lawyer and human rights activist, said that the appointment of
Khattab as head of the National Council for Human Rights is appropriate, given
her experience, qualifications and skills, and added that it does not give an
indication about the human rights situation in the future. He noted that one
should wait for the council to start its work before making judgments.
He
told Al-Monitor, “The law and the constitution guarantee the independence of
the council. Although its advisory role is limited to making recommendations,
everything else is in the hands of the Egyptian authorities. Therefore, the way
the authorities cooperate with the council will determine how effective its
role is. We will have to wait and see because we can't predict the future.”
Borai
said, “A number of pretrial detainees were released recently. This is a good
thing. We hope that all pretrial detainees will be released, we hope for wider
civil space for civil society, the opposition and freedoms and tangible
progress in the human rights situation.”
Commenting
on ending the state of emergency and the launch of the national strategy for
human rights, he noted that they are good issues, but they remain mere promises
until they are practically implemented on the ground.
Tariq
Radwan, head of the parliamentary Human Rights Committee, said that choosing
the first woman to head the National Council for Human Rights underscores the
Egyptian state's orientation to empower women, which has been ongoing since
2014. He told Al-Monitor by phone that it is also a continuation of women’s
access to high positions for the first time, whether in the government,
executive agencies and specialized councils. Women make up 27% of the House of
Representatives and the Senate.
He
noted that there is no conflict between the parliamentary Human Rights
Committee and the National Council for Human Rights, but rather they complement
each other in order to promote the culture of human rights in society and
assume a supervisory role over the executive authority to the fullest.
Radwan
added that the launch of the national strategy for human rights, the end of the
state of emergency and the opening of the new prison complex express the
Egyptian state’s desire to promote the human rights situation, including the
right to a house, health care and education, and it is not limited to political
rights.
Source:
Al Monitor
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Cairo
world premiere for Jordanian film highlighting Arab women’s issues
29/11/2021
After
five short films and a long career in TV production, Jordanian director Zaid
Abu Hamdan decided to embark upon his first fictional experience with the long
feature “Daughters of Abdul-Rahman”, which took seven years to produce.
The
film, which mainly addresses Arab women’s issues, stars Saba Mubarak, Hanan
Helou, Farah Bseiso, Maryam Pasha, Khaled Al-Tarifi and the child Yasmina
Al-Abed.
It
has been premiered abroad at the forty-third Cairo International Film Festival,
taking part in the official competition.
The
film tells the story of an older man, Abdul- Rahman, who owns a small library
in the Ashrafieh district of the Jordanian capital, Amman. His late wife gave
birth to four daughters, while he always dreamt of having a boy.
Each
of Abdul-Rahman’s daughters lives a completely different life from the others.
The eldest is Zainab, who dreamed of entering a music institute. Instead,
staying unmarried, she takes care of her father, who has limited means, burying
her talent behind the piles of clothes she sews after she turned herself into a
neighbourhood seamstress.
The
second daughter is Amal, who married young, wears the niqab and has given birth
to a number of children. She is physically abused by her husband who wants to
marry off their youngest daughter at the age of fifteen.
The
third is Samah, who was able to marry a wealthy man who gave her a decent
standard of living, but for years she has failed to have children from him. She
eventually discovers he is gay.
As
for the fourth, Khitam, she caused great heartbreak for her father after she
travelled to Dubai to live with her boyfriend outside marriage, which made the
whole family live with a sense of shame.
When
the four daughters have their first reunion in years at their father’s home,
they discover that he has upped and left leaving no sign of where he has
gone. This compels them to start
searching for him. Their search becomes an opportunity for the daughters to look
back at their lives and make bold adjustments.
The
story raises issues of family life, customs and traditions and specifically the
upbringing of girls in Arab societies. It also deals with thorny issues such as
domestic violence, under-age marriage, gender discrimination and the wearing of
the niqab.
Zaid
Abu Hamdan says that he was inspired by his social environment and the life he
led during his youth in Jordan before living for many years in the United
States.
He
adds that he spent over five years working on the film, while production took two
years before its world premiere at the Cairo Film Festival, which opened last
Friday.
He
points out: “There was no intention to disparage men in the film. This is not
our goal in writing, directing or production, but we tell the story of girls
and if there are negative male role models, perhaps this is an opportunity for
some to reconsider the role of men in society.”
He
adds, “I wish everyone who watches the film to look at himself for a moment and
think of his mother in a different way, not as a loving woman who takes care of
him, but think of her as a human being … and wonder if she was happy, if her dreams came true and if
she loved her life.”
Source:
The Arab Weekly
https://thearabweekly.com/cairo-world-premiere-jordanian-film-highlighting-arab-womens-issues
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Finland’s
secret school for children of Daesh fighters in Iraq
November
29, 2021
HELSINKI:
At home in the Finnish capital, Ilona Taimela scrolls through hundreds of
WhatsApp chats with her former pupils — pictures of animals, maths sums and
simple sentences in English and Finnish.
The
teacher last year gave lessons to Finnish children imprisoned some 3,000
kilometers (1,800 miles) away in Syria’s Al-Hol displacement camp — using only
the messaging app.
Al-Hol
is a sprawling tent
city
housing around 60,000 people, mainly women and children displaced by the
US-backed battle to expel the Daesh group from war-torn Syria.
Among
them are thousands of children of foreign mothers who traveled to Syria to be
the wives of Daesh fighters.
“Some
of the children didn’t know what a building is, what a house is, because
they’ve always been in a tent,” Taimela told AFP.
“There
was so much that they needed to learn.”
Rights
observers warn the camp’s children are under constant threat from violence,
poor sanitation and fires.
“It’s
a miserable place, it’s out of control,” said Jussi Tanner, Finland’s special
envoy charged with ensuring the fundamental rights of the Finnish children in
Al-Hol, including access to health care and schooling, and eventual
repatriation.
Extremist
propaganda “is free to roam with no counter-messaging,” he said.
Tanner
had the idea of offering lessons by phone to Al-Hol’s Finnish children when
schoolchildren everywhere moved to distance learning at the start of the
coronavirus pandemic.
With
the help of Finland’s Lifelong Learning Foundation, officials engaged Taimela,
a specialist in teaching Finnish kids abroad, and another teacher, to design
and teach a curriculum.
With
phones banned in the camp, the lessons would have to be in secret, and the
politically sensitive project was also to be kept hidden from the Finnish
public.
Tanner
forwarded details about the voluntary classes to the mothers.
“That
same day ... we got maybe eight children,” Taimela said.
Soon
23 of around 35 Finnish children in the camp had signed up.
“Good
morning! Today is Thursday May 7, 2020. The first day of distance school!“
Taimela’s
first message to the children included a smiling selfie.
“The
sun is shining here in Finland. What kind of weather is it there?“
Soon
Taimela and her colleague were exchanging hundreds of text and voice messages a
day with the children, who were taught one or two subjects a day.
“The
little ones would always get Finnish, and the older ones would get geography or
history, and some of them also wanted to learn English.”
Sending
photos used too much data, so the teachers relied on emojis, but soon realized
there were no symbols for mathematical fractions or the ubiquitous Finnish
blueberry.
“During
the year the blueberry [emoji] arrived, so we were happy,” Taimela says,
laughing.
Despite
only knowing scant details about the children, Taimela said she and her colleague
were “worried all the time about their welfare.”
“Especially
when we heard that they were sick, or there was a storm and the tent had
collapsed.”
Communication
with some families would periodically stop.
“Some
of them escaped the camp,” special envoy Jussi Tanner says, “so they were
actually taking part in the school while on the run in northwestern Syria in an
active conflict zone.”
Others
were suddenly repatriated and left the group for good.
After
months of lessons, the mother of one six-year-old revealed her daughter could
now read.
“Not
all six-year-olds in Finland can do that,” Taimela says, smiling. “It was a
eureka moment.”
Daesh
fighters declared a “caliphate” in large parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq in
2014, three years into Syria’s civil war.
Taimela
says she feels “sadness rather than anger” toward the mothers who led their
children into the conflict.
Many
were vulnerable and believed the promises of militants that they would live in
some “kind of paradise.”
But
several military offensives whittled away at the brutal Daesh proto-state,
until in 2019 Syrian Kurdish forces declared it defeated.
Reluctant
Western nations have since brought home handfuls of their Daesh-linked
nationals, mostly children.
Taimela
had accepted that she would never know what happened to the repatriated
children she had taught, but one day she was called to a reception center in
Finland.
“It
was an emotional few hours” meeting some of her pupils face to face for the
first time, she said.
They
“came very close” and Taimela read to them.
“I
just wanted to know, ‘How is everything, what can I help with?’,” she said.
Finland’s
foreign ministry has now repatriated 23 children and seven adults.
Tanner
told AFP that only around 15 “harder-to-reach” individuals, of whom 10 are
children, remain in camps in Syria.
The
issue originally proved divisive in Finland, but opposition has “become much
more muted.”
Taimela’s
teaching drew to a natural close in mid-2021 and the ministry later made the
project public.
She
is now looking at how to use the innovative teaching model in other crisis
zones or camps, and has received requests regarding Greece, Myanmar and
Colombia.
“The
Al-Hol teacher, that’s my label now,” Taimela smiles.
“But
I’m proud of what we did.”
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1977841/world
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At
death's door, Turkish woman delivers miracle baby
NOV
29, 2021
Nida
Pelit gave birth to a healthy girl following the efforts of Turkish doctors who
conducted a challenging surgery which is expected to feature in the annals of
rare childbirth.
This
is the first time in Turkey that a pregnant COVID-19 patient connected to an
artificial heart-lung machine delivered a healthy baby through a C-section.
Now
recovering in her hospital bed, she can't wait to be united with her daughter,
Mihra, who is still under medical observation as she was born prematurely.
Pelit
was in the 31st week of her pregnancy when she was infected with the
coronavirus. She was taken to intensive care in her hometown Kocaeli in
northwestern Turkey as the virus had severely affected her lungs.
Surviving
with the assistance of respiratory devices, she spent her days largely
unresponsive to treatment. When her health deteriorated, she was taken to a
hospital in Istanbul which had the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
machine. The ECMO is useful for patients with collapsed lungs. Though doctors'
efforts saved both the mother and daughter, it took the former another 40 days to
leave the intensive care.
Dr.
Mustafa Mert Özgür, who operated on the mother, said she was infected with
coronavirus 11 days after she was administered her first dose of vaccine.
"We were racing against time when we were informed about her condition. We
had minutes to connect her to devices and we made it in time," Özgür told
Demirören News Agency (DHA) on Sunday.
He
lamented the low vaccination rate against coronavirus among the expecting
mothers and warned that the lack of inoculation poses dangers for the mother
and the child.
"When
such patients' health worsens, we opt to terminate the birth. Our hospital is
specialized in the ECMO treatment for patients in advanced stages of the
illness, but it is only applied if the patient is eligible in medical terms. We
had a similar case previously and she recovered but this patient was in worse
condition. She could lose her baby and was not fit for surgery," he said.
After
lengthy consultations, doctors decided to perform a C-section on Pelit while
she was still connected to the ECMO. He said they had to wait for the baby's
lungs to develop in the womb to perform the surgery.
"The
baby briefly stayed in intensive care and the mother was able to live without
the ECMO after a while. This is a rare case, maybe a few in the world. We will
share this with the international medical community," he said.
Mihra's
father, Anıl Pelit, said doctors told him that his wife had only two hours to
live without the ECMO. However, the doctors brought the device to the hospital
in Kocaeli on time, before transferring the mother to the hospital in Istanbul.
"It
was truly a miracle. I am so grateful to all doctors. I will reunite with my
wife and daughter soon when both are well," he said.
Source:
Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/at-deaths-door-turkish-woman-delivers-miracle-baby/news
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Gwadar
Women Protest for Rights, End To ‘Illegal Trawler Fishing’
November
29, 2021
GWADAR:
Hundreds of women Monday took to roads in Balochistan’s Gwadar district and
demanded rights and jobs cut due to curbs on illegal smuggling of petrol and
goods across Pakistan, Iran border.
The
rally commenced from Al Johar Public School and concluded at Marine Drive.
Speaking at the rally, the participants stated that the breadwinners of their
homes were without jobs which had compelled them to step out into the streets.
They
called for an end to illegal fishing by trawlers and for lifting restrictions
on trade with Iran.
Addressing
the rally, Maulana Hidayatur Rehman Baloch, the secretary general of
Jamaat-i-Islami’s (JI) Balochistan chapter and who is leading the movement,
stated that today’s “historic rally” was a testament to the fact that each and
every citizen of Gwadar had mobilised for their basic rights.
Activist
Jibran Nasir, tweeting videos from the rally, said thousands of women marched
on the streets of Gwadar, adding that a rally of youth and children had also
taken place earlier.
“All
have the same demand: to provide the entire Makran area with basic amenities
like potable and clean water,” he said.
On
Sunday, Balochistan Minister for Planning and Development Mir Zahoor Ahmed
Buledi, who is heading the government team for talks with the protesters, said
that the demands made by Baloch had been implemented to a great extent —
something he said Baloch had also acknowledged in his speeches.
The
minister called on him to show more flexibility in negotiations.
Thousands
of people from Gwadar, Turbat, Pishkan, Zamran, Buleda, Ormara and Pasni have
been staging a protest for the past several days. Among their demands is the
removal of additional check-posts at Pushkan, Sarbandan and Gwadar City, the
complete removal of fishing trawlers and the opening of the Pak-Iran border.
Last
week, the Excise, Taxation and Anti-Narcotics Department had ordered the
closure of all wine stores in Gwadar district with immediate effect in view of
the “law and order situation”.
The
notification was shared by Buledi on Twitter, who said the decision was taken
after negotiations with JI’s Baloch.
Source:
Pakistan Today
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German
court to rule on ex-IS member in Yazidi girl's death
NOV.
30, 2021
BERLIN
(AP) — A court in the German city of Frankfurt is expected to issue a verdict
Tuesday in the trial of a former Islamic State member accused of killing a
5-year-old girl he had purchased as a slave by chaining her in the hot sun.
Taha
Al-J., an Iraqi citizen whose full last name wasn’t released due to privacy
rules, is the first person to go on trial in Germany on charges of genocide for
his role in the Islamic State's systematic persecution of the Yazidi religious
minority.
The
defendant could face a life sentence if convicted of the charges, which also
include murder, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Federal
prosecutors have asked the court to additionally determine that he bore
“particular responsibility” for the alleged crime — reducing his chances of
parole after 15 years.
The
defendant’s lawyers have denied the allegations made against their client.
His
German wife was sentenced last month to 10 years in prison over the same
incident.
The
United Nations has called the IS assault on the Yazidis’ ancestral homeland in
northern Iraq in 2014 a genocide, saying the Yazidis’ 400,000-strong community
“had all been displaced, captured or killed.” Of the thousands captured by IS,
boys were forced to fight for the extremists, men were executed if they didn’t
convert to Islam — and often executed in any case — and women and girls were sold
into slavery.
According
to German prosecutors, Al-J. bought a Yazidi woman and her 5-year-old daughter
as slaves at an IS base in Syria in 2015. The two had been taken as prisoners
by the militants in northern Iraq at the beginning of August 2014 and had been
“sold and resold several times as slaves” by the group already.
The
defendant took the woman and her daughter to his household in the Iraqi city of
Fallujah and forced them to “keep house and to live according to strict Islamic
rules,” while giving them insufficient food and beating them regularly to
punish them, according to the indictment.
Prosecutors
allege that toward the end of 2015, Al-J. chained the girl to the bars of a
window in the open sun on a day where it reached 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit)
and she died from the punishment. The punishment was allegedly carried out
because the 5-year-old had wet the bed.
Source:
Spectrum News1
The
girl’s mother, who survived captivity, testified at the Frankfurt trial.
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Spotify
celebrates 1 year of women-focused program SAWTIK
November
29, 2021
DUBAI:
Last year, Spotify launched SAWTIK, an initiative to elevate and champion the
voices of emerging unsigned female artists in the Middle East and North Africa
region.
It
came after esearch uncovered growing underrepresentation of women in the music
industry.
A
year later, Spotify is celebrating the program’s anniversary, reflecting on its
impact and announcing its next steps.
SAWTIK
playlists were heard by listeners in more than 70 markets, with the US,
Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Algeria ranking among the top markets for
streaming playlists from the program. To date, the platform’s music team has
added more than 170 emerging female artists to SAWTIK’s official playlist.
Artists
on the playlist represent the diversity of female talent in the region,
including voices from the Arab diaspora. For example, Egyptian-Moroccan rapper
Perrie is raising her voice and collaborating with famous rappers across the
scene while being recognized by producers. Her recent collaboration with
Abyusif on “Mamlaka” is charting on Spotify’s Top 50 Egypt.
SAWTIK’s
godmother and Arab superstar Latifa is also working with Tunisian SAWTIK artist
Sirine Miled on a new song.
Djouher
from Algeria recently made the cover of Spotify’s global playlist, Ballads
International, a collection of the world’s best emotional songs. She has
established a strong international fan base, attracting listeners in the US,
India and Indonesia.
Emirati
singer-songwriter Almas has seen a 7500 percent increase in her song streams
since joining SAWTIK. She is also one of the voices of the official Dubai Expo
2020 song “This is our Time.”
Almas
said: “SAWTIK is a great platform. I appreciate the idea of bringing together
female talents who share the same passion and challenges. I’ve enjoyed
connecting with other SAWTIK artists; it really gave us a sense of community.”
Rania
Hamadeh, vice president of marketing and promotions for Universal Music Group
MENA, said: “It was inspiring for us to discover such great voices and talents
like the rising Emirati artist Almas who was assigned by Universal Music MENA
to take part in the official anthem of Dubai Expo 2020, representing the female
voice of the young artistic generation of the UAE.”
To
further support emerging female artists in the region, SAWTIK artists will be
given a global platform through the EQUAL program launched earlier this year.
EQUAL is Spotify’s global commitment dedicated to fostering equity for women in
music and celebrating their contributions. The program will highlight female
artists around the world through partnerships, activations and new content
experiences, and will offer support both on and off the platform.
Under
this program, SAWTIK artists will be included in the EQUAL hub, a dedicated
space on the platform to highlight women creators.
Every
month, the hub features a rotating Artist of the Month takeover, alongside a
refreshed track list. SAWTIK artists will have the opportunity to have their
music added to the flagship EQUAL Global playlist, among other benefits.
Spotify
also has other plans to further amplify the voices of women artists in the
region. “As we welcome SAWTIK to our EQUAL program, expect bigger and bolder
plans for our emerging female artists next year,” said Lynn Fattouh, Spotify’s
consumer marketing manager for the MENA region.
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1977686/media
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Egypt
to launch new initiative targeted at women in December 2021
29
Nov 2021
CAIRO
– 29 November 2021: In his meeting with UN Executive Director Sima Bahous
Sunday, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli stated that Egypt will launch in
December the "Egyptian Family Development Initiative."
Madbouli
elaborated that the initiative is targeted at rural and urban women to expand
their participation in the labor market and improve their empowerment.
The
meeting was also attended by Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hala
al-Said highlighted ongoing work aimed at creating one million jobs for women
through small enterprises, and training opportunities. That is in addition to
increasing the number of nurseries and day care centers to reinforce women
participation in the labor market.
Source:
Egypt Today
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