Saudi Arabia Girls School Flouts Religious Ban With Basketball

Thursday, May 3, 2012 Saudi Arabia Girls School Flouts Religious Ban With Basketball Flouting a religious ban on female sports, a school in Saudi Arabia has become the first state-run girls' school in the country to openly allow their students to play sports, Reuters reports. Female participation in sports has long been a controversial issue in the conservative Islamic kingdom, where an austere interpretation of Islamic law not only prevents women from playing sports, but also working, opening bank accounts and driving. Read the rest of the story on The Huffington Post. 102-Year-Old Veteran Just Won't Stop Volunteering High School Elects Girl With Down Syndrome As Prom Queen Boy With Leukemia, 5, Uses 'Make-A-Wish' To Serve The Poor Mystery Donor Sends Year Of Free Train Tickets To Teen In Need What Do YOU Want to Do Before You Die? BLOG POSTS Ron Radziner, FAIA and Anna Hill: Expo Excitement and Expectation With the opening of the Expo Line in Los Angeles this past weekend, Southern California might finally be able to shed its image as a place where the car dictates the way we travel, and build. Molly Hahn: Buddha Doodle -- Seek Dean P. Simmer: One Hundred Percent The Class of 2012 at Detroit Cristo Rey High School took a risk by signing up for a Catholic, college-preparatory school that had not even opened, they worked harder than they had before, and 100 percent have been accepted into college. Claire Charness: G(irls)20 Summit-Empowering Girls and Women Is Key to Economic Growth If you help a young girl or woman find the confidence and the belief in her, she will break barriers in the future, both in an economic and political environment and in all areas of her life. Edward Goldman: Medicine for Your Eyes The first time I heard about the importance of having really good works of art displayed in hospitals, I thought to myself, what a strange idea.

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