Me, her, and the others is the title of a recently published novel by Jana al-Hassan. The novel was published by the Arab House for Sciences – Publishers. It sketches an image of the failed social relations that controls its people. The author discusses her own vision of the society that pushed her to write this novel. She believes that society always dumps the responsibility of upbringing the children on the mother while the father is not held accountable. Women are portrayed as the prototype of tenderness at times; and as the provider of education and upbringing at other times. Meanwhile, the father’s role is rarely discussed outside the framework of the “supporter” although our societies do need a larger emotional part to be played by the father in general in order to a better and more effective communication between the fathers and their children.

 

The Minister of Transportation and Public Works, Ghazi al-Aridi, launched the second forum of Arab female engineers at the UNESCO palace under the headline “The Arab female engineer in a decision making position,” with the participation of the committee of the Arab female engineers in Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Palestine, Kuwait, and Egypt.
Al-Aridi noted that there is no difference between a male and a female engineer since we are witnessing a progress of some pioneering Arab female engineers at many instances. He also hoped that, “this forum will be concluded with recommendations and decisions that will provide more incentives for more achievements.”