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While pundits and scholars continue to debate the political ramifications of Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) has stepped back to examine another long-term consequence of the occupation—its impact on the health of Kuwaiti nationals who stayed in the country during the invasion...
...study released last week, SPH researchers found that, since the invasion and the subsequent seven-month occupation, mortality rates have proven substantially higher among older Kuwaiti civilians who stayed in the country through the occupation than among Kuwaiti nationals who were outside the country during that period...
...After all, what role do Reform and Conservative rabbis play at a Maimonides memorial? They have jettisoned most if not all of his 13 Articles of Faith. Deny even one, says Maimonides, and you deny Judaism. Are they the ones to wish him a happy birthday? Then there is Kuwaiti Professor Abderrahmane Badawi, who embraces Maimonides as an Arab philosopher. But Maimonides, while not branding Islam as idolatry, was clear in rejecting classical Arab fatalism in favor of Judaism's doctrine of free choice. It was also nice of the U.S.S.R. to send Scholar Vitali Naumkin to Paris, while Soviet...
...Kuwaiti parliament last week, a crowd gathered quickly, noisily, in one of those convulsions of public feeling that impel strangers to converge on a single spot. They were not there to protest. Dancing, singing and launching fireworks, some 300 men and women came to celebrate a breakthrough political victory. After a nine-hour parliamentary debate, and six long years of delay, a bill granting women the right to vote and to run for public office finally passed. "Our hearts are overflowing with joy and happiness," exulted Fayza al-Awadhi, a member of the Kuwaiti Women's Cultural & Social Society. Giving...
...another sign that the push for democracy in the Middle East may finally be reaching women. Hundreds of Kuwaiti protesters last month demanded that women be given the right to vote. Women's suffrage will be granted in Qatar when its new constitution takes effect in June. Women in Iraq are demanding a greater voice in the newly formed government there. And the Saudi government has even raised the possibility of granting women the right to vote in the next elections. Shibley Telhami, a Middle East expert at the University of Maryland at College Park, thinks the Grand Mufti...