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| Saudi-born expats an asset, not a liability | | Nations have to take certain decisions in the larger interest of their countrymen. But while doing so they tend to ignore those who may not be in the mainstream but play a crucial role in the development of the country's economy. |
| Urgent Call for Help from a Saudi Mother: Saudi Police and Wahhabi Judges deny her Maternal Rights | | A young Saudi woman is appealing for assistance in having her infant child restored to her. In a letter she sent to Aafaq, Shouk Alshammary, said that her life and the life of her infant daughter are in jeopardy, and has asked that her message and appeal be delivered to human rights organizations and defenders of women, motherhood and children, in all quarters of the world, and of all religious faiths. |
| Letter to President Bush on the Annapolis Conference | | The Beirut Secretariat for the Damascus Declaration sent a letter to President Georges W. Bush signed by its secretary, former Syrian MP and member of the National Opposition, and one of the prisoners of conscience Mohamad Mamoun El Homsy, demanding that the Annapolis Peace Conference does not become a place of defeat for the project of freedom and democracy and an incentive for the victory of dictatorship on the ambitions, struggle and hopes of the Syrian people and the peoples in the Middle East region. |
| Women in Iraq are among the Major Users of the Internet | | As soon as the internet came to Iraq, Iraqis seized upon it, and began browsing. In a short time Iraqi women have come to be among its most frequent users in Iraq. And no sooner did the internet come into Iraq homes, than the proportion of users who are women increased even more. In the following, we cover what Aafaq learned from discussions of internet usage with a number of Iraqi women. |
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