From the BBC:
Bahrain’s king has appointed a Jewish woman as the country’s envoy to the United States.
Houda Nonoo said she was proud to serve her country “first of all as a Bahraini” and that she was not chosen for the post because of her religion.
She is believed to be the Arab world’s first Jewish ambassador.
Ms Nonoo, 43, has served as a legislator in Bahrain’s 40-member Shura Council for three years and is head of the Bahrain Human Rights Watch.
“It is a great honour 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,” Ms Nonoo told the Associated Press news agency.
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