![]() ![]() He left with her passport and did not return. Upon arrival at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, a man greeted her, not disclosing that he was a Saudi embassy official, and told her that he needed her passport so that he could help her obtain a Thai visa. Her family reportedly filed a missing person report after her escape from Kuwait. A tourist visa had been issued to her that permitted entry into Australia. She intended to continue on another flight to seek asylum in Australia. ![]() While Mohammed was on vacation with her family in Kuwait, she left them and boarded a flight to Bangkok, Thailand. On 11 January 2019 she was granted asylum in Canada and arrived in Toronto the next day. After she appealed for help on Twitter and gained significant attention, Thai authorities abandoned their plans to forcibly return her to Kuwait (from where she would be repatriated to Saudi Arabia), and she was taken under the protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and granted refugee status. She had intended to claim asylum in Australia and escape her family who she says abused her and threatened to kill her for, among other reasons, leaving Islam, an act that is a capital offence under Saudi law. ![]() Rahaf Mohammed (formerly Rahaf Mohammed Mutlaq al-Qunun Al-Shammari Arabic: رهف محمد مطلق القنون الشمري) is a Saudi refugee and author who was detained by Thai authorities on 5 January 2019 while transiting through Bangkok airport, en route from Kuwait to Australia. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Tickets can be purchased on the Hay Festival website This event will be held at Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales It is a catalyst for change and a community that is open and accessible to everyone. Offering innovative platforms to discover new ideas, Hay Festival invites audiences to imagine the world as it is and as it might be. Hay Festival seeks to inspire, examine and entertain with sustainable events and projects around the world. ![]() Russell is director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford and author of Life Time: The New Science of the Body Clock and How It Can Revolutionise Your Sleep and Health, who shares his own studies and insights from an international community of sleep scientists to illustrate the surprising effects the time of day can have on our health. Learn how to live a healthier, sharper life using your body clock with Russell Foster. 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I liked it when we had guys in the group, too, because that’s another perspective. ![]() ![]() ![]() I liked getting different feedback from the viewpoints of all the other writers. We were all mystery writers, but we all wrote very different kinds of mysteries. I attended through all kinds of membership changes until we moved out of Austin. She invited me to a meeting, and I came back time after time. Someone led me to Karen MacInerney, who was still in the AMW group then. I was at an Austin Sisters in Crime Holiday party at someone’s home, and I mentioned wanting a writing group. Welcome to the interview couch, Kaye! Tell us, how did you find Austin Mystery Writers? For today’s interview I’m talking to former AMW member, Kaye George who is a national-bestselling and multiple-award-winning author. ![]() ![]() Rather, we need the rescuing grace of God - grace that has the power to shape how we view everything we do as parents. 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