{"id":1066,"date":"2009-02-17T03:22:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T08:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2009-02-17T03:22:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T08:22:13","slug":"repostexcellent-news-saudi-arabia-appoints-female-minister-fp-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/17\/repostexcellent-news-saudi-arabia-appoints-female-minister-fp-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:Excellent News! :Saudi Arabia appoints female minister &#124; FP Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 170px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/49123036@N00\/5228480\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Minarets at Dawn - Medina, Saudi Arabia\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/4\/5228480_f141c1299f_m.jpg?resize=160%2C240\" alt=\"Minarets at Dawn - Medina, Saudi Arabia\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/49123036@N00\/5228480\">Shabbir Siraj<\/a> via Flickr<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Saudi Arabia\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=24.65,46.7666666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=24.65,46.7666666667%20%28Saudi%20Arabia%29&amp;t=h\">Saudi Arabia<\/a> appoints female minister<br \/>\n<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mon people\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mon_people\">Mon<\/a>, 02\/16\/2009 &#8211; 9:44am<br \/>\nEncouraging news from the kingdom:<br \/>\nAn expert on girls&#8217; <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Education\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Education\">education<\/a> became Saudi Arabia&#8217;s first woman minister on Saturday as part of a wide-ranging <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cabinet shuffle\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cabinet_shuffle\">cabinet reshuffle<\/a> by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Abdullah of Saudi Arabia\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdullah_of_Saudi_Arabia\">King Abdullah<\/a> that swept aside several <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bastion\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bastion\">bastions<\/a> of ultra-conservatism.<br \/>\nNora bint Abdullah al-Fayez, a US-educated former teacher, was made deputy education minister in charge of a new department for female students, a significant breakthrough in a country where women are not allowed to drive.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2009\/02\/16\/saudi_arabia_appoints_female_minister\">Saudi Arabia appoints female minister | FP Passport<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/386ea6b1-37d8-41f7-9bd2-ca159da38748\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by Shabbir Siraj via Flickr Saudi Arabia appoints female minister Mon, 02\/16\/2009 &#8211; 9:44am Encouraging news from the kingdom: An expert on girls&#8217; education became Saudi Arabia&#8217;s first woman minister on Saturday as part of a wide-ranging cabinet reshuffle by King Abdullah that swept aside several bastions of ultra-conservatism. Nora bint Abdullah al-Fayez, a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/17\/repostexcellent-news-saudi-arabia-appoints-female-minister-fp-passport\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:Excellent News! :Saudi Arabia appoints female minister &#124; FP Passport&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}