By Barbara Crossette Thoraya Ahmed Obaid ’66 has been named one of 30 women appointees to Saudi Arabia’s traditionally all-male Shura Council, a government advisory body that serves as a sort of legislature in the kingdom, which has no parliament. Obaid, a former executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) with a strong
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By Pamela Jensen ’89 “The City.” We all hear that term. Our families, friends, even the newspapers use it. But when I use “the City,” I’m not referring to the home of the ’49ers. The only true city for me is our city—Oakland. I have been a resident of Oakland’s political world for four years