Lebanon's Finance Minister Raya Haffar al-Hassan speaks during a news conference in her office in Beirut April 15, 2010. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon has appointed the Arab world's first female interior minister in its new government, prising open a wider foothold for women in its overwhelmingly male political scene.
Raya al-Hassan is one of four women to take cabinet jobs in the new coalition, more than ever before in Lebanon and three more than in the last government, in which even the minister for women was a man.
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