Friday, June 17, 2005

Saudi Personality #2

Hey friends,

Today the Saudi personality is Hanadi Zakaria Al-Hindi, the first Saudi women pilot to graduate. Rest assured, she will not be flying Saudi Airlines, but I am really proud of the fact that there is a Saudi women pilot. "Al-Hindi expressed joy at graduating and said she would return to Saudi Arabia to work on a private plane owned by Prince Al-Waleed ibn Talal who paid the costs of her studies in Jordan." So, while miss Al-Hindi will be flying a private plane, I wonder why women would be allowed to fly a plane, where she is responsible for the lives of the passenger, and not drive a car? Kudos to miss Al-Hindi. I hope she is a sign of hope and aspirations to the women in Saudi.

Mansur

8 comments:

Jo said...

Ya. I read about her too. WICKED WOMAN!!!

Anonymous said...

The sad thing is that a Saudi women like her has to go outside of the country to make her dreams come true!

Jo said...

Well obviously! But Al-waleed did pay for her scholarship and shes gonna be flying his private plane so technically she is in Saudi.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, I guess so! God, I wonder if she will ever live to fly Saudi Airlines?!

Jo said...

LOL don't count on it!

Jo said...

hibb: Ofcourse there's demand! Employment is increasing by the second so the more job opportunities the better. If there was some sort of school for flying, trust me, it'ill be packed and you'd probably need connections to get in!

Mansour said...

Actually there is a flight training school at Saudia City in Jeddah. It's very up-to-date and a state-of-the-art training school....but, a BIG BUT, its off limits to women.

Mansur

Jo said...

M: LOL DUH!!!

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