Published on Al Bawaba (http://www.albawaba.com)

First ever Egyptian female anchor wearing the hijab

Published September 4th, 2012 - 07:45 GMT

A covered woman fills Egyptians in on the latest news and to most outsiders would not know that this is a first for Egypt; Can the Syrian rebels get their act together? A movie review of J-Lo's The Cell; and in support of the Lebanese smoking ban.
Fatima Nabil is the first ever covered new anchor for Egyptian TV.
© 2012 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com [1])
A Discussion on Syrian rebels [2]
Egyptian Chronicles [3]
And Egypt got its first veiled news anchor
Fatima Nabil has entered the history of Egyptian Television as the first veiled news anchor. Nabil is the first among 3 veiled news anchors that will appear in Ch.1 and Nile News of Egyptian TV starting from today. If I am not mistaken Fatima Nabil’s co-news anchor today was a Christian.
Karl reMarks [4]
Radio Discussion: Can Syria's fragmented opposition come together
Listen to a radio discussion about the future of the Syrian uprising that I participated in on The Voice of Russia.
Chasing Pavements [5]
The Cell
An Arab blogger gives her take on the new film by Jennifer Lopez. Is it a must see or a snoozer?
Beirut Sping [6]
Quick Thoughts on The Smoking Ban
As a supporter of the ban, you’ll be hearing a lot of arguments on why what the government is doing is bad, pointless, evil, or ill-timed. There are many good responses to those arguments, and you can find some of them here. But I want to focus in this post on two arguments:
Source URL: http://www.albawaba.com/blog_roundup/hijab-news-anchor-egypt-440676

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[1] http://www.albawaba.com
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-nyKVH3X8U
[3] http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2012/09/and-egypt-got-its-first-veiled-news.html
[4] http://karlremarks.blogspot.com/2012/09/radio-discussion-can-syrias-fragmented.html
[5] http://dafdoo3ah-diary.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-cell.html
[6] http://beirutspring.com/blog/2012/09/03/quick-thoughts-on-the-smoking-ban/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+beirutspring%2Ffb_feed+%28Beirut+Spring%29