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bacasper
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 Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:42 pm Post subject: Bahrain has Jewish envoy |
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This is fascinating! Can someone explain how this came about?
Feb 19, 2010
Tweet Reveals Private Meeting
Lubavitch Center in Washington, DC, played host to a private dinner for a visiting foreign dignitary - until the guest tweeted.
By Aryeh Levin, COLlive reporter
One a recent snowy evening, guests arrived at the Lubavitch Center in Washington, DC, home of American Friends of Lubavitch, which played host to a private dinner meeting for a visiting foreign dignitary.
"Heading to dinner with a prominent Jewish Ambassador to the United States - will say more after I see if it's on-the-record," William Daroff, Vice President for Public Policy for the Jewish Federations of North America, tweeted on his account.
He was referring to Houda Nonoo, Bahrain's Ambassador to the U.S. - believed to be the Arab world's first Jewish envoy, who attends services at The Shul of the Nation's Capital at Lubavitch Center.
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:23 pm Post subject: Re: Bahrain has Jewish envoy |
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| bacasper wrote: |
| This is fascinating! Can someone explain how this came about? |
It is interesting, isn't it? And yet again, Wikipedia provides a quick and easy answer to our curiosity:
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Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo (also Hoda Nono; Arabic: هدى عزرا نونو) is the Bahraini Ambassador to the United States. She was appointed to the position by decree of Foreign Affairs Minister Khaled Ben Ahmad Al-Khalifa. Nounou is the first Jewish person, and third woman, to be appointed ambassador of Bahrain. She is also the first Jewish ambassador of any Arab country[1][2][3], and the first female Bahraini ambassador to the United States.[4] Some local media criticized the appointment[5], and Radio Canada reported that her nomination was controversial within Bahrain, with some suggesting that a Jewish person might not be the best choice to defend Bahrain's refusal to recognise Israel. Al-Khalifa rejected these concerns.[1]
Prior to her appointment, she was president of the Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society, and had for three years been a member of parliament (40-member Shura Council), after being appointed by King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah. Her appointment made headlines because Houda is part of the small Jewish community of Bahrain. Bahrain's Jewish community reportedly consists in just thirty-seven people, most of whom are the descendants of immigrants from Iraq and Iran.[1][6] Nonoo is not the first person in her family to enter Bahraini politics, or member of the Jewish community. In 1934, her grandfather Abraham Nonoo served as a member of the Manama Municipality, the first ever elected municipal body in Bahrain.[7] In 2000, a cousin, Ebrahim Daoud Nonoo was appointed to parliament. The Nonoo family is originally from northern Iraq having moved to Bahrain over a century ago[8]. |
It sounds like her political experience was sufficiently distinguished to allow her to overcome the hurdles of both her gender and her religion, especially when the fact that her family is somewhat well connected politically is taken into account.
Every time I use Wikipedia, I find myself boggled at the people who dismiss it as a valuable source. Wikipedia is one of the single best sources of information on the internet, because it combines accessibility with a thorough list of citations. Of course for a proper research paper you'd circumvent Wikipedia and use sources directly, but for something like an internet forum, it really can't be beat. |
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