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New Trend in Ramallah: 'Girls Only' Cyber Cafes |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Yasser Baraka |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2006 |
| Size: 952 Words, 5,776 Characters |
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Reem Abdullah was raised in a conservative family in a village near the city of Ramallah. She is a university student and needs some Internet time to do research for her studies. But Reem had a dilemma; family restrictions made it almost impossible for her to frequent cyber cafes open to both genders.
Reem's case is not uncommon in the West Bank, where many female students need Internet access in order to support their university studies.
According to a 2004 statistical study by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), almost 15 percent of females in the West Bank and 16 percent in the Gaza Strip use the Internet, while the ratio of Palestinian households with Internet connections has reache...
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...hat these projects have arisen to satisfy a specific need--a necessity for conservatives and an option for liberals.
"I don't mind going to any of those cyber cafes," said Fadwa, a high-school student. "I used to go to a girls-only cyber cafe when I lived in Bireh, but since we moved to Ramallah I go to a mixed one, and I have no problem with that whatsoever."
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