Bahrain names Jewish woman as ambassador to US

Source: Associated Press

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Bahrain's king has appointed a woman believed to be the Arab world's first Jewish ambassador as the country's envoy to Washington.

Lawmaker Houda Nonoo said she was proud to serve her country "first of all as a Bahraini," adding she was not chosen for the post because of her religion.

"It is a great honor to have been appointed as the first female ambassador to the United States of America and I am looking forward to meeting this new challenge," Nonoo told The Associated Press by telephone.

The Wednesday decree issued by King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa and reported by the official Bahrain News Agency had not specified where Nonoo, a 43-year-old mother of two boys, would be posted. But her appointment to the U.S. ambassadorship was rumored for months.



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how ignorant

But thats good !

It shares very little in common with the other states.

Bahrain is where Saudis go to drink and party. It's like Las Vegas or Atlantic City to them.

This is a welcome bit of news says I.

Thanks for sharing!

That's a Saudi saying with regard to Bahrain... Sort of like "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas". :)

I greatly enjoyed the 6 months I spent there courtesy of Uncle Sam...

As part of Uncle Sugar's Canoe Club.
USS LaSalle, AGF-3, 1984-85
USS Waddell, DDG-24, 1987 and 1989
USS Elliot, DD-968, 1993
USS Denver, LPD-9, 1998
USS Thach, FFG-43, 2001 and 2002-03

(I didn't spend that much time there... a weekend here and there during the times indicated. Couldn't be more than about 90 days, total.)

A Black president... a Jewish woman as ambassador from an Arab state...

Sometimes I have hope for the world.

The blogs I regularly read for Bahrain haven't updated yet, so I don't know what the local reaction is....but I wonder if she is being put out of the way so she can't cause problems politically... Pure speculation on my part; I don't know how she leans on the various issues confronting the Kingdom, other than to guess she wouldn't be supporting the various pushes for wide-spread implementation of Sharia law...

Or maybe I read too much into things, and His Royal Majesty is merely putting the best person he knows of in for the job.