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Pages in category "Arabic-language feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 217 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Battoulah (Arabic: بطوله, romanized: baṭṭūleh; Persian: بتوله), also called Gulf Burqah (Arabic: البرقع الخليجي), [1] [note 1] is a metallic-looking fashion mask traditionally worn by Khaleeji Arab and Bandari Persian Muslim women in the area around the Persian Gulf. [5] [3]
Miss Arab World (Arabic: مسابقة ملكة جمال العرب) is an annual regional beauty pageant in the Arab World. [1] The contest seeks to select the Arab girl that best represents her country based on traditional Arab customs and traditions.
The Arabic غوازي ghawāzī (singular غازية ghāziya) means "conqueror", as the ghaziya is said to "conquer" the hearts of her audience. They were also known as awālim (singular alma, transliterated almeh in French as almée), but in Egypt, Awalim are the traditional Egyptian dancers and singers of the city, not rural areas, who used to perform in respectable events such as the ...
The Middle East's preference for European white girls over African black girls as sex slaves were noted by the international press, when the slave market was flooded by white girls in the 1850s due to the Circassian genocide, which resulted in the price for white slave girls to become cheaper, and Muslim men, who were not able to buy white ...
Furthermore, Arab First Ladies have called for greater empowerment of women in the Arab World [50] so that females could stand in an approximate equal position as males. The role of women in politics in Arab societies is largely determined by the will of these countries' leaderships to support female representation and cultural attitudes ...
Ibrahim al-Mawsili (742–804 CE) is reported to have claimed that his father was the first to train light-skinned, beautiful girls as qiyān, raising their price, whereas previously qiyān had been drawn from among girls viewed as less beautiful, and with darker skin, although it is not certain that these claims were accurate. [13]
Arab girls dancing Khaleegy. Khaleegy' or Khaliji (from Arabic خليج) is a mixture of modern style and traditional folkloric dance from the Persian Gulf countries of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.