In yet another top whatever list, Forbes has rolled out their Word’s 100 Most Powerful Women. The list is quite interesting and has human rights activists from Afghanistan and a pair of business titans from Turkey. The Arab world was somewhat well represented:
#79 Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser al Missned (Qatar)
#82 Queen Rania (Jordan)
#99 Sheikha Lubna al Qasimi (UAE)
For starters I have never understood the media’s infatuation with Queen Rania. Other despot’s wives have started social programs and she is not as attractive as Asma al Assad or even Sheikha Mozah (suck on that Palestine/Jordan!!). I guess it is harder for Asma to get on Oprah.
That being said the other three women are all dynamos who are really shaking things up (and all from the Gulf too). Of course they owe their position at least in part to good old fashioned wasta (connections), but they are becoming icons for their achievements and challenging the status quo. I really believe that the subtle changes and innovations introduced by Sheikha Mozah are going to be seen as very significant when we look back 20 years from now.
I was kind of shocked that Meridith Vieira made the list (at #55 no less!). What other women in the Middle East would you add to this list? Are there really no N. African or E. Mediterranean women who could be included (Queen Rania aside)?
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Where’s CSS on that punk ass list?
Posted by Falastin | September 1, 2007, 9:41 amman moza is fiiine
that is one tasty banana .. ya ya i know LAME
Posted by Jundi | September 1, 2007, 2:14 pmHow you can say that Asma al Assad is better looking then Rania is beyond me..sure Queen Rania has her off days, but when you consider that she is almost 40 and way past her prime, you begin to realise that she’s not doing badly at all…
Unlike the Sheikha Mozah who you also say looks better, Queen rania has not had a complete plastic makeover!
If you could just break free of your hate for the Palestinians then perhaps you would start to say something all together more convincing.
Posted by Anonymous | May 16, 2008, 3:08 amArabs…all same sh88 and different smell
Posted by Anonymous | October 5, 2008, 2:00 pmJewish philosophy: Same Script Different Asshole!!!
Y dnt you guys just get over yourselves and admit tht you are not the best nation in this world or any other world and are infact completely useless … Cause the job you were sent to do on this earth was to introduce Islam and its only prophet Mohammed (S.A.W)to this world which you failed to complete … So stop bithcing about it and leave us and Arabs alone coz you jerks you are Arabs too go and read your history you are our Ugly evil cousins who were srtruck by amnesia on Toor and are still bieng unable to recover from
… Suckerrr!!!!
Posted by A Muslim! | March 25, 2009, 11:17 pmhey u dont u eva say that we r useless cz if u were upset about wat this 1 person said do not talk about all of the nation ok
and do not eva and i mean eva speak about sheikha moza in this way cz u actually do not know her
look i come from Qatar but Queen Rania is 1 of my role models so do not speak about other ppl in that way
ok!!!!!!!!!
Posted by another muslim | July 29, 2009, 8:40 pmhey calm down
do u guyz realize what ur fighting about????
Posted by another muslim | July 29, 2009, 8:32 pmasma how are you
Posted by Mohammed | May 28, 2010, 11:26 am