mani Al Hosani’s fascination with nuclear energy began at school learning about atoms and chain reactions in science classes. “I loved reading about nuclear energy”, says Ms Al Hosani, who became the UAE’s first female nuclear scientist three years ago. “But I never imagined as a child that the UAE would take the lead...

Ramallah (Ma’an News Agency): On July 29 2015, Palestine saw the appointment of its first woman mazouna, a Muslim official authorized to carry out marriage ceremonies. While being the only one of her kind in the Palestinian Territories, Tahrir Hamad is also one of the few woman mazounas on a global scale, since only Egypt and Abu Dhabi, and now...

By: Reem Al-Botmeh Women and girls face entrenched institutional, legal, and social discrimination in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) as a result not only of the Israeli occupation, but also because of an outdated, un-harmonised legal system. Women’s rights advocates in the oPt have been span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic...