Article: PEOPLE OF 2007 - GILLIAN GIBBONS

Article: Facing 40 lashes, the British teacher who called a teddy bear ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... for naming a teddy bearMohammed as part of a primary school project. Gillian Gibbons, 54, was being interrogated at a police ... adviser.. She was deputy head at the Dovecot primary school in the city from 2002 untilJuly this year ...

Article: Save my teacher from 40 lashes; (1) Child's play: But a bear has ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... fault.' The pupilspoke as Gillian Gibbons, 54, prepared to spend a ... Peter Gib- bons, head at a primary school inLiverpool, said that he ... about what has happened to Gillian Gibbons,' the PrimeMinister said ...

Article: In Sudan, a blasphemous teddy bear.(WORLD)(Gillian ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  November 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... seats of learning, must have seemed like a paradise to Gillian Gibbons as she arrived in Sudan. After a career teaching in the ... punishable by up to 40 lashes. At issue: she allowed her primary-school students to name a class teddy bear Mohammad - the name ...

Article: It was the best decision I ever made; Despite jail, the threat of ...
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  August 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Byline: Emma Pinch HOME has been a number of places for Gillian Gibbons over the past year. It's been a comfortable house in ... spotlight of the world's media onto the former Dovecot primary school teacher. After being placed at the Unity School, in Sudan ...

Article: Was Gillian Gibbons guilty of insulting Islam?
The Daily Mail (London, England);  December 4, 2007 ;     648 words ... ... against a Westerner, usingthe most ridiculous of charges in an attempt to appease the extremists. Thefact that an English primary school teacher is making a positive contributionto their society by using her skills to benefit the future Sudanese generationhas ...

Article: Foreign Secretary statement on Gillian Gibbons.
M2 Presswire;  December 3, 2007 ;     492 words ... ... Government: Foreign Secretary statement on Gillian Gibbons(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS ... Acting Foreign Minister to be told of Gillian Gibbons' pardon. I welcome President al ... officials have been in constant touch with Gillian Gibbons and her family throughout. Gillian ...

Article: Of Sami al-Haj and Gillian Gibbons.
The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon);  December 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... children. When the British teacher Gillian Gibbons was arrested in Sudan, the Western ... waiting for him just as the family of Gillian Gibbons were waiting for her. No Arab leader ... just as action was taken to release Gillian Gibbons. Bouthaina Shaaban is the Syrian ...