| Member's News | No.41 June 2004 |

The Sport Association of Arab Woman Prof.Dr. Nabilah Ahmed Abdulrahman, Egypt |
Upon the invitation from Dr. Ahmed Saad Alsherif (President of the School Sport Federation of United Arab Emirates), Prof. Dr. Nabilah Ahmed Abdulrahman (President of The Sport Association of Arab Woman) participated in a Symposium titled ‘Woman Sport- Reality and Ambition’ on June 17th and 18th, 2003. Under the auspices of Sheikh Ahmed Ben Said Aal Maktoom (President of the National Olympic Committee), the aims of the symposium were: Publish the sport culture of woman in Emirate’s society. Establish the role of sport and its relationship with women’s health. Evaluate the sporting reality for women in the Emirates. Organize the international organizations Olympic program of womens sport. The sub-themes of the symposium were: Health and posture. Activities and sports fields of women. Women, sport and society. Women, sport and international organization . Prof. Dr. Nabilah Ahmed Abdulrahman spoke about the position of physical education in general, but especially for women, and asked governments to give attention to physical education because its benefits for children and youth. The recommendations: * Institute an association or sport federation for womens sport. * Set plans and systems for preparing the scientific careers for women in sport. * Ensure the coordination of, and contact between organizations, through instituting a professional administration for womens sport. * Ensure the role of the National Olympic Committee in supporting the United Arab Emirates Womens sport. Another invitation was extended by Dr. Ahmed Saad Alsherif for Prof. Dr. Nabilah Ahmed Abdulrahman to participate in the seminar titled ‘An International Experiment for Women’s Sport’ from February 11th to 12th, 2004. Dr.Nabilah Abdulrahman asked Dr.Hania Alkashef (Dean of the Faculty of Physcal Education for Girls at Alexandria University) to attend on her behalf. Dr.Hania presented Dr.Nabilah `s literature about ‘Human Development and Activation of the Role of Arab Women in The Sport Field" and also submitted a paper on ‘A Sport Culture of Arab Woman under Social conditions’. Copies of ‘Women and Islamic Civilization: Respect-Jude-Equity’, were also distributed at the seminar. The aims of the symposium were: To reconize the different experiments of some Arab countries regarding "Arab Women in Sport" To study the reality of current and future problems which face Arab women in sport. To encourage the participation of Arab women in out door events. The recommendations: To prepare an integrated documentation of women in sport, including statistics, data, and information to follow up the history of women’s sport in Arab countries Encourage women to practice sport for health benefits. Ensure a healthy environment for the participation of women in sport. Endorse the Emirates project for supporting womens sport, which was submitted from the Emirates Sport Federation, and is used as a model of a developmental project for womens sport. Prof. Dr. Nabilah Ahmed Abdulrahman President The Sport Association of Arab Woman 55 Moustafa Kamel Street Flemming Alexandria EGYPT Telephone: +20 3 5465171 Fax: +20 3 5459678 Email: saaw_alex@hotmail.com http://www.icsspe.org/portal/bulletin-June2004.htm The Sport Association of Arab Woman Prof.Dr.Nabilah Ahmed Abdulrahman, Egypt