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Rock the Vote: Media Coverage of Women in Iraqi Elections


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 11 Feb 2009 / 0 Comments
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Last week’s Iraqi elections received lots of media coverage, but at MMW we were mostly fascinated by women candidates, especially since election rules require 30% of the candidates be female. The Huffington Post defines Iraq’s exercise in democracy as rebellious, while the Gulf News qualified it as an act of political maturity. I’ll take a […]

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