Some Arab Women Find New Lives As Flight Attendants In The Gulf

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- Marwa Abdel Aziz Fathi giggled self-consciously as she looked down at the new wing-shaped brooch on the left breast pocket of her crisp gray uniform, then around the room at the dozens of other Etihad flight attendants all chatting and eating canapés around her.

It was graduation day at Etihad Training Academy, where the national airline of the United Arab Emirates holds a seven-week training course for new flight attendants. Downstairs are the cavernous classrooms where Ms. Fathi and other trainees rehearsed meal service plans in life-size mockups of planes and trained in the swimming pool, where they learned how to evacuate passengers in the event of an emergency landing over water.

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Comments

[TrooAmerican]

Its good that another career opportunity is being provided for ladies in the middle east, but cynically, i still believe they will be harassed and possibly assaulted by Arab men as much as they would be in any middle eastern country and be shown just as little respect.
Women world wide are the most bigoted against group over and above racial ethnicity or age, or disability.

[Rightone11]

Good. Much better than the Arab world with dictators....Iraqi young women would have NEVER been permitted to do this under Sadam...

[Suzanne525]

Saddam: Iraq.

This article is about United Arab Emirates. Very, very different.

Does not make the Iraq war justifiable.

[LetMeUnderstandThis]

ummmm, ok