Showing posts with label Saudi Arabia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saudi Arabia. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Inter-hospital kidney exchange in Saudi

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 Transplant centers .already conduct kidney exchange in the Kingdom, but now an effort is being launched to make exchange between centers fe...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Kidney Exchange in KSA

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  Here's a press release from King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Saudi Arabia: KFSHRC Performs Over 5,000 Successful...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Participating in the Haj through the black market

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 Saudi Arabia is a bit more open to tourism than it used to be, and that may be making it easier for black market operators to bring pilgrim...
Friday, March 15, 2019

Ongoing controversies about same sex marriage

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Relatively recent stories, about the Methodist world and the Arab world remind us that there remains considerable active repugnance to same...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

Repugnance watch: Pokemon in Saudi Arabia

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Reuters has the story: Top Saudi clerical body renews fatwa against Pokemon "The General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Relig...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

Repugnant transactions in Saudi

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The NY Times has an interesting story on Saudi Arabia:  A Saudi Morals Enforcer Called for a More Liberal Islam. Then the Death Threats Beg...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

Chess playing as a repugnant transaction in Saudi Arabia

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The NY Times has the story: Saudi Arabia’s Top Cleric Forbids Chess, but Players Maneuver "Saudi Arabia’s top cleric has declared th...
Saturday, April 5, 2014

List of baby names banned in Saudi Arabia (includes Alice and Elaine)

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Saudi isn't the first country to find some names repugnant...as I recall, there is a Napoleonic list of French names that are ok, with ...
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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Women protest Saudi driving ban, in small numbers

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The WSJ has the story:  Women Accelerate Challenge to Saudi Driving Ban " Three Saudi women drove cars on Saturday in an ongoing cha...
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Sunday, November 17, 2013

Saudi comedians mock the ban on women drivers with a video song

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The NY Times has the story " Their  video , a play on the Bob Marley classic “No Woman, No Cry,” has gone viral, receiving more ...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Repugnant transaction watch: Saudi women drivers

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The NY Times has the latest on a demonstration by Saudi women who wish to be allowed to drive in the Kingdom, and the reaction it has drawn...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Organ donation and Islam: Saudi scholar registers as organ donor

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In Iran there's a monetary market for kidneys, but elsewhere in the Islamic world (and elsewhere) some have questions about organ transp...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Sorcery as a repugnant transaction--and a capital crime

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The Saudi's seriously don't like sorcery: Saudi Woman Beheaded for 'Witchcraft' "A Saudi woman was beheaded after be...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Driving and voting while female in Saudi Arabia

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Find the repugnant transaction in this story... Saudi woman to be lashed for defying driving ban "A court in Saudi Arabia has sent...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Beauty can make for a repugnant transaction...

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At least some Saudi women seem to be objecting to a transaction that might be agreeable to the other parties involved:  Saudi women object ...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Child marriage

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Child marriage by very young children is under discussion again in Saudi Arabia, the Wall Street Journal reports. Part of the issue is just ...
Friday, July 29, 2011

Can new science universities flourish in Saudi Arabia? In Egypt? In China?

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I've written before about the difficulties of breaking into the top ranks of universities , and so it will be very interesting to watch ...
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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Misc. repugnant transactions

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What is it about mercenaries? Deane-Peter Baker explores the Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights view on the repugnance of  m...
Friday, April 2, 2010

Fortune-telling is repugnant in Saudi Arabia (and a capital crime)

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This headline caught my eye this morning: Lebanese Not to Be Beheaded Friday for Witchcraft "A Lebanese man condemned to death for witc...
Saturday, May 9, 2009

Repugnant transactions concerning brides

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From the sale of child brides in Saudi Arabia to the difficulty of enforcing the laws against Suttee (self-immolation on the husband's f...