She volunteers with Saudi charities for women and children. She is chair of the Down Syndrome Charity Association and a Founding Board Member of the National Family Safety Programme in Saudi Arabia. She is a founding partner of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative. a non-profit company for women's projects in the Middle East and north Africa.
She is described as a liberal writer who has always praised the decisions of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman as a reformer. In 2015 she was the target of a controversy because of an article she wrote about women's issues for the newspaper "Riyadh". The newspaper was forced to delete the article from its archives, and the issue was referred to interior minister Mohammed bin Nayef for investigation. The article was about the rights of widows and criticized a fatwa of the Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh.
Autumn Reeser
Autumn Reeser (born September 21, 1980) is an American actress. She was born in La Jolla, San Diego, California.
Reeser is best known for her roles as Taylor Townsend on the Fox series "The O.C.", Lizzie Grant on HBO's "Entourage", Katie Andrews on ABC's "No Ordinary Family", Kylie Sinclair on ABC's "Last Resort", Dr. Gabby Asano in CBS's "Hawaii Five-0", and Leslie Bellcamp on E!'s "The Arrangement".
Reeser appeared in Clint Eastwood's movie "Sully" with Tom Hanks.
Rami Malek
Rami Said Malek (born May 12, 1981) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series "Mr. Robot". For his role as Alderson, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2016.
Malek is also known for his roles in the "Night at the Museum" trilogy, "The Pacific" (2010), "" (2012), and "Short Term 12" (2013).
Malek played musician Freddie Mercury in the biographical drama "Bohemian Rhapsody" (2018). He won a Golden Globe Award and an Oscar for this role in 2019.
Sayed Ashraful Islam
Sayed Ashraful Islam (1 January 1952 – 3 January 2019) was a Bangladeshi politician. He was a member of the Awami League. He was a Member of Parliament and Minister of Public Administration of the Government of Bangladesh. Islam was Minister of Local Government and Rural Development. He was born in Mymensingh, East Bengal.
In November 2018, Islam was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer. He died two months later from the disease on 3 January 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand, aged 67.
Karl-Heinz Adler
Karl-Heinz Adler (20 June 1927 – 4 November 2018) was a German abstract painter, graphic artist and conceptual artist. He was described as "one of Germany’s most famous representatives of Concrete Art." He was born in Adorf, Saxony, Germany.
He produced many public monuments and developed, with Friedrich Kracht, modular concrete decoration for hundreds of buildings across East, now eastern, Germany.
Adler died on 4 November 2018 at the age of 91.
Héctor Ferrer
Héctor J. Ferrer Ríos (March 27, 1966 – November 5, 2018) was a Puerto Rican Democratic politician and attorney. He was a legislator in the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico from 2001 to 2012 for three consecutive terms. He was the president of the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico (PPD) from 2017 to October 2018. Ferrer was born in San Juan.
In September 2015, Ferrer was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He died in San Juan on November 5, 2018 from the disease at the age of 52.
Chaghcharan Airport
Chaghcharan Airport () is an airport in Afghanistan located in Chaghcharan city of Ghor Province, in central parts of the country.
Donna Axum
Donna Idelle Axum (January 3, 1942 – November 4, 2018) was an American beauty pageant winner, philanthropist and model. She was newly made Miss Arkansas who was crowned Miss America in 1964. She was born in El Dorado, Arkansas.
From 1969 to 1972, she was married to Texas state politician Gus Franklin Mutscher.
Axum died on November 4, 2018 in Fort Worth, Texas from complications of Parkinson's disease at the age of 76.
Gus Franklin Mutscher
Gus Franklin Mutscher (born November 19, 1932) is an American Democratic politician. He is a former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 1969 to 1972.
Mutscher was one of several Texas politicians indicted in the Sharpstown bank stock fraud scandal. He was convicted and sentenced to five years probation for conspiring to accept a bribe. Mutscher, however, was later cleared on appeal.
Mutscher was born in Brenham, Texas. He married a former Miss America, Donna Axum of El Dorado, Arkansas in 1969, but divorced in 1972.
Brenham, Texas
Brenham is a city in Texas in Washington County, United States, with a population of 15,716 according to the 2010 U.S. census. It is the county seat of Washington County. Brenham is south of College Station.
Feride Rushiti
Dr. Feride Rushiti is the founder and Executive Director of the Kosova Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims (KRCT) since 1999. Ms. Rushiti is graduated and specialized at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tirana, Albania.
Feride Rushiti is one of the pioneering activists of Human Rights in Kosovo. Soon as the war in Kosovo has ended in 1999 she established the KRCT the same year, just in order to treat survivor victims of torture where she was actively involved in providing medical and psycho-social assistance for the first post-war returnees.
Ms. Rushiti began its work in March 1999, when half of Kosovo’s population fled Kosovo, and mainly where deported to Albania; many of them had suffered from the effects of severe mental and somatic torture and other violations of human rights.
She continued in supporting victims of post-war trauma since that time and advocating strongly in promoting and advancing their rights, social inclusion, combating stigmatization, and get recognized by law for this sensitive social group.
In its 20 years of work and activity, the primary importance has been dedicated "to the survivals of wartime sexual violence in Kosovo". After almost two decades of work and uncompromising engagement of Mrs. Rushiti, survivors of sexual violence have been recognized as a civilian victim of war as a legal status. Exactly, in 2017, its advocacy brought an important government decision to fund personal retirement for survivors of wartime sexual violence in Kosovo.
Since 2007, within the Human Rights and Advocacy Sector, she has been very active in lobbying, promoting and protecting human rights for persons deprived of their liberty. In this regard, thanks to the contribution and influence of Mrs. Rushiti, the overall treatment situation and the legal framework for persons deprived of their liberty has been promoted and improved.
Feride Rushiti, as a result of her bold and unremitting commitment in the field of Rehabilitation, Human Rights, Research and Documentation, Advocacy and Lobbying, and Economic Reintegration, in 2018, the US Department of State has awarded the Award International for Courageous Women.
Feride Rushiti is an ethnic Albanian from Gjilan in eastern Kosovo.
Rushiti graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Tirana in 1997. Later she specialized in gastroenterology.
In 1999, Rushiti traveled to Kukës in eastern Kosovo, on the Albanian border. She worked with the UN’s children’s agency and with Doctors Without Borders.
During the 1990s, more than half of the population of Kosovo moved out of the country, mostly to Albania, because of the 1998-1999 war and because of many human rights violations. Rushiti formed a group of 45 health professionals from Kosovo to provide medical and psychological support to the refugees. After the war, the refugees returned to Kosovo. This was a new beginning for protection of human rights, especially from torture and other forms of human degradation. In October 1999, Rushiti started the Kosovo Center for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (KRCT), to provide rehabilitation, health care, and psycho-social help for the survivors of torture and violence.