The appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first African American Supreme Court Judge in 1967 was a mile stone for African American’s everywhere, and today women are experiencing a similar breakthrough in the UAE. On Wednesday the UAE President Sheikh Khalifa appointed Kholoud Ahmad Jouan Al-Dhaheri as a judge in the Emirates. This was a first in the UAE but not in the Arab world after for example Bahrain also appointed a female judge not too long ago.

The UAE has been moving and progressing rapidly and this was only a natural step as they try and ‘involve women in the development drive’. As for this woman who is sure to go down in Arab Modern History, she graduated as a lawyer from UAE University and has been practicing for eight years. This is an excellent achievement not only for Judge Khulood but for all the women in the Arab world. Just goes to show that women in the Arab world are in fact honored, not oppressed.

By Karim