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While hai'a makes mistakes, they are the only entity that anyone Muslim or not, Saudi or not, any gender, any race can turn to and still keep his/her affairs private.
arabnews - frontpage 2010
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While hai'a makes mistakes, they are the only entity that anyone Muslim or not, Saudi or not, any gender, any race can turn to and still keep his/her affairs private.
arabnews - frontpage 2010
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` ilm al hai'a, or ` science of the aspects (of the universe). '
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"In a country where the sexes are rigorously separated, where topics like sex and race are rarely discussed openly and where a strict code of public morality is enforced by religious police called hai’a, Ms. Winfrey provides many young Saudi women with new ways of thinking about the way local taboos affect their lives — as well as about a variety of issues including childhood sexual abuse and coping with marital strife — without striking them, or Saudi Arabia’s ruling authorities, as subversive."
The New York Times, Saudi Women Find Unlikely Role Model: Oprah, by Katherine Zoepf, September 18, 2008
September 19, 2008