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Saudi Arabia: Double Win

Written byHaitham Sabbah
Posted 30 November 2005 19:20 GMT

Sabbah writes that two Saudi businesswomen swept to an unprecedented victory in elections to the board of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday in the first polls in which women stood as candidates in the conservative Muslim kingdom.

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