Wikipedia's first sentence called it “kuwaiti activist advocating democratic reform”. Today it says “kuwaiti economist and business executive and former politician and minister”.
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The opening as it read in 2015
Al-Dashti (born 1964 ) is a Kuwaiti government minister .1She is one of the first female MPs elected in the Kuwaiti parliament.2She is the minister of state planning and development affairs.3 Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree permitting Kuwaiti women to run for parliamentary elections for the first time. She was the first woman to file her papers at the election department, when the registration opened, and she herself was a candidate in the 2006 parliamentary election . In the 2009 parliamentary elections , she and three other women won seats to become the first women to enter the Kuwaiti parliament .4
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree permitting Kuwaiti women to vote and run for parliamentary elections for the first time. She was the first woman to file her papers at the election department, when the registration opened , and she herself was a candidate in the 2006 parliamentary election . In the 2009 parliamentary elections , she and three other women won seats to become the first women to enter the Kuwaiti parliament .
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The opening as it stood in 2020 2 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Rola Abdulla Dashti ( , born 1964 ) is a Kuwaiti economist and business executive and former politician and minister.Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree permitting Kuwaiti women to run for parliamentary elections for the first time and was one of the first female MPs elected to the Kuwaiti parliament .She subsequently served as minister of state planning and development affairs and State Assembly affairs.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Kuwaiti economist, business executive and politician Rola Abdulla Dashti ( , born 1964 ) is a Kuwaiti economist and business executive and former politician and minister. Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree permitting Kuwaiti women to run for parliamentary elections for the first time and was one of the first female MPs elected to the Kuwaiti parliament . She subsequently served as minister of state planning and development affairs and State Assembly affairs.
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Kuwaiti economist, business executive and politician (born 1964) Rola Abdulla Dashti ( Arabic : رولا عبدالله علي حاجيه دشتي ; born 1964) is a Kuwaiti economist and business executive and former politician and minister. Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree permitting Kuwaiti women to run for parliamentary elections for the first time and was one of the first female MPs elected to the Kuwaiti parliament . She subsequently served as minister of state planning and development affairs and State Assembly affairs.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “kuwaiti activist advocating democratic reform”. Today it says “kuwaiti economist and business executive and former politician and minister”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
kuwaiti activist advocating democratic reform
Now
kuwaiti economist and business executive and former politician and minister
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