United Nations, New York, 14 February, 2011 – In many traditional cultures, women aren’t allowed to own or inherit property. Losing a husband through death or divorce can be a guarantee of poverty.
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About 500 Chinese people are said to live in Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan’s second city. Many work in the new Kawa Mall where Chinese flags, lucky cats and paper lanterns present an incongruous scene on the Kurdish landscape.
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The crew of the STS-134 mission, space shuttle Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot Greg Johnson and Mission Specialists Greg Chamitoff, Mike Fincke, Drew Feustel and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori, trained Feb. 11 in a shuttle simulator at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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Margaret Atwood
(Author),
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master’s degree from Radcliffe College.
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The panel agrees that Egypt was a triumph of non-violence which allowed them to topple a dictator. They make a leap in logic that the protesters were not representative of all the Egyptian people.
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“I feel reborn,” says Egyptian feminist author and activist Nawal El Saadawi. “I am 80, but I feel young, I feel all my energy coming back, I feel my childhood dream coming back.”

The revolution in Egypt has inspired people across the world, and we talk to Nawal today to find out why she thinks the successful removal of the Mubarak regime is the culimation of a movement to change the entire structure of Egyptian capitalist, patriarchal politics.
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“The US has to go back to the drawing board,” says legendary journalist Helen Thomas of US policy in the Middle East and North Africa. As Egypt throws off its regime and protests ripple across the region, she notes that the world is waking up to the fact that people under repressive dictatorships can and will fight back–and use nonviolence to achieve their aims rather than invasion.
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WOLF BLITZER: Mona, the protests in Tunisia led to a revolution there. In Egypt led to a revolution there.
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CNN’s Ivan Watson reports on the musical sounds that accompanied the popular revolt in Egypt. Hussam al Hossainy and Remy Esam are featured
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Mona Eltahawy comments on how Egypt’s peaceful 18-day revolution didn’t just bring down a dictator, it also toppled stereotypes about Arabs, who are often seen as violent and as a people who crave an iron-fisted strongman.
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“Hello, I’m an Arab and I toppled two dictators in one month!
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Dr. Marque has this college freshman’s prescription!
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One of the greatest ever actors, Sir Christopher Lee, is given the highest honour awarded by BAFTA – The Academy Fellowship (ie Lifetime Achievement Award).

Very sad to see how frail he is.
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DemocracyNow.org –
While the Egyptian military has agreed to some of the protesters’ demands, the military has refused to lift the emergency law or to release the thousands of political prisoners jailed by the Mubarak regime. To explore the situation, Democracy Now!
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