"For the first time in Palestine .. Women judges swimsuits ..."
This is the headline in a Firas Press article. But rather than talking about a beauty contest, it in fact seems to be saying that for the first time, women applied for jobs as judges in the PA.
I have no idea how the "swimsuits" line go in there. Any of my readers who know Arabic, please kindly translate:
المراة قاضياً شرعياً...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Elder of Ziyon
