Saudi Arabia Appoints its First Female Spokesperson at US Embassy

Fatima Baeshen (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Fatima Baeshen (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Saudi Arabia Appoints its First Female Spokesperson at US Embassy

Fatima Baeshen (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Fatima Baeshen (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Saudi Ambassador to Washington Prince Khalid bin Salman issued an order to assign Fatima Baeshen the embassy's spokeswoman, making her the first female spokesperson for a government institution.

Baeshen is a businesswoman, who has earned her master’s degree with a focus on Islamic finance from the University of Chicago, and has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Baeshen was a director at the Washington based think tank Arabia Foundation. She spent several years working in Riyadh’s Saudi Ministry of Labor and the Saudi Ministry of Economy and Planning before returning to the United States in 2017.

She has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Islamic Development Bank and the Emirates Foundation for Youth Development.

Baeshen was raised in the US and spent most of her childhood in Mississippi.



OIC Chief Offers Condolences to Iraq Following Deadly Fire in Kut City

OIC Chief Offers Condolences to Iraq Following Deadly Fire in Kut City
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OIC Chief Offers Condolences to Iraq Following Deadly Fire in Kut City

OIC Chief Offers Condolences to Iraq Following Deadly Fire in Kut City

Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha extended his sincere condolences and sympathy to the leadership and people of Iraq over the victims of the tragic fire at a commercial center in Kut City, Wasit Governorate, causing numerous deaths and injuries, SPA reported.

He also expressed solidarity with the families of the victims and the injured.