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(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of report by Javid Hassan in English headlined "Riyadh professor objects to woman pilot" published by Saudi newspaper Arab News website on 3 July

An associate professor of Imam Muhammad Bin-Saud Islamic University in Riyadh has objected to the hiring of a Muslim woman as a pilot.

In a statement issued in response to a full-page advertisement by Prince Al-Walid Bin-Talal, chairman of Kingdom Holding Co., congratulating Capt Hanadi Zakariya Hindi for becoming the first Saudi woman to get a commercial pilot's license, Shaykh Yousuf Al-Ahmad said the appointment was un-Islamic.

Al-Ahmad, who …

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