The pioneering Arab women we have forgotten

Edit The National 25 May 2016
'If it isn't written down, it didn't happen," is one of those cliché quotes that could be tweaked today to say. " It is not photographed and posted somewhere, no one will know about it." ... There are heroes such as Nawal El Moutawakel, from Morocco, who was the first Muslim Arab woman to win a gold medal at the Olympics Games in 1984, and Syria's Ghada Shouaa, a heptathlete who won her country's only gold medal at the 1996 Olympics....
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