No matter where I am I keep some reading material around me. When I left New York on my way to Dubai I picked up a special on the middle east; Time Magazine - my way to Kuwait I read an amazing article in Time Special Report: The Divided World Of the Middle East. The magazine was pointing at key social and economic differences within middle east countries like Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates, but one particular article caught my attention.
Araby's Beating Heart was an article they did on how the Sheikh and Sheikha of Qatar. Qatar has made a ridiculous amount of money over the last decade from oil and natural gas, and they are pumping billions back in to the development of the country, making it the second fasting growing economy in the world. So what's the point? What about the Sheikha? Sheikha Mozah is beautiful, educated, strong willed, and is spear heading the social progress within the country single handedly. She has brought respected American universities like Texas A&M to Doha as satellite campuses and is outspoken against critics uninformed about women and Islam.
Bonnie and Clyde of the Middle East...
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