{"id":801,"date":"2006-03-13T12:17:13","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T16:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/03\/13\/good-move-on-the-name\/"},"modified":"2006-03-13T12:17:13","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T16:17:13","slug":"good-move-on-the-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/03\/13\/good-move-on-the-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Move on the Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8137'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/binneice.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"450\" align=\"left\">NEW<br \/>\n        YORK (<a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.excite.com\/\/article\/20060313\/2006-03-13T133404Z_01_N10281478_RTRIDST_0_ODD-LEISURE-BINLADEN-DC.html\">Reuters<\/a>) &#8211; Osama bin Laden&#8217;s niece, an aspiring singer who posed<br \/>\n        for a sexy photo shoot in a men&#8217;s magazine last year, has signed up for<br \/>\n        a reality television show about her life and her as yet unfulfilled &quot;quest<br \/>\n        for stardom.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>      Wafah Dufour Bin Ladin, whose mother was married to the al Qaeda leader&#8217;s<br \/>\n      half brother, was born in California but lived in Saudi Arabia from the<br \/>\n      age of three to 10.<\/p>\n<p>      &quot;I understand that when people hear my last name, they have preconceived<br \/>\n      notions, but I was born an American and I love my country,&quot; Dufour<br \/>\n      said in a statement from ReganMedia announcing the deal to develop a reality<br \/>\n      TV series.<\/p>\n<p>      Dufour has dropped the &quot;Bin Ladin&quot; &#8212; a different spelling of<br \/>\n      the Arabic name from that used by Osama bin Laden &#8212; and now goes by the<br \/>\n      name Wafah Dufour.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.excite.com\/\/article\/20060313\/2006-03-13T133404Z_01_N10281478_RTRIDST_0_ODD-LEISURE-BINLADEN-DC.html\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Osama bin Laden&#8217;s niece, an aspiring singer who posed for a sexy photo shoot in a men&#8217;s magazine last year, has signed up for a reality television show about her life and her as yet unfulfilled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/03\/13\/good-move-on-the-name\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}