Our Project, The March 18 Movement, Won a ThinkSocial Award!

November 19th, 2009Fatima (Saudi Arabia)

We are happy to share the with you the news that The March 18 Movement (OR318), won a 2009 ThinkSocial Award for “outstanding innovation” and representing a “powerful model for how social media can be used to address global problems”. We would like to express our deep gratitude to all the people who have expressed their support and voted for OR318.

The March 18 Movement was launched after the tragic death of Omid-Reza [...]

Intensified Persecution of Christians in Iran

November 20th, 2009Fatima (Saudi Arabia)

The following was sent to me by an Iranian Christian and posted here with permission:

While attention focuses on the situation of the young French woman “trapped” at the Embassy of France in Iran and the nuclear [...]

Where have all the good movies gone?

November 19th, 2009Reem Shawkat (Sudan)

Most of the time, I leave the cinema hall feeling disappointed, offended and ripped-off. Here I am, after wasting nearly two hours of my precious life, feeling slightly older and bitter that my intellect wasn’t [...]

election law faces new challenges

November 19th, 2009Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq)

niqash | Hayder Najm | fri 13 nov 09
Several political blocs have expressed dissatisfaction with Iraq’s new election law, criticizing various amendments and provoking fears that it could yet be rejected by the Presidency Council, [...]

Imagine

November 19th, 2009Eman Hassan Fadel (Bahrain)

I had to act as everything is ok, as if I’m alright and happy. Imagine yourself having to pretend that you’re living the day just like you did the day before, that life is fair and [...]

Israelis for Palestine: Acknowledge and repair past and current injustices

November 17th, 2009Esra'a (Bahrain)

It’s a great pleasure to introduce to you our latest project: Israelis for Palestine. This has been in the works since the beginning of October and we’re happy to finally be launching it, despite the [...]

A Day in the Contested City of Kirkuk

November 15th, 2009Vahal

At the main Bazzar inside the city of Kirkuk, three languages are heard simultaneously, Kurdish, Arabic and Turkmani, not in that or any order. Here is the alleged site of the tomb of prophet Daniel, [...]

Palestine: Birth Pains of a Nation

November 14th, 2009Nissim Dahan (Israel/USA)

This post includes information drawn from Shlomo Maital who wrote an article entitled The Palestinian (Almost) State.

As politicians busy themselves with endless debates; business people, both Palestinian and Israeli, are creating economic realities on the ground, [...]

Kurdish Political Prisoner Shirkuh Moa’refi to be Executed in Iran

November 13th, 2009Fatima (Saudi Arabia)

A Kurdish political prisoner, Shirkuh (Bahman) Moa’refi, was transferred to solitary confinement yesterday afternoon ahead of his execution, according to his lawyer, Dr. Khalil Bahramian. Shirkuh (also spelled Sherko or Shirko) was held by the Saqqez [...]

“Kill the Children”: The Bestseller Book in Israel

November 12th, 2009Sami, the beduin.

“ There’s time to kill and time to heal” This was what “Dr.” Baruch Goldstein said in an interview with an American newspaper a few days before he perpetrated the massacre of killing 29 [...]

Ehsan Fattahian was Hanged this Morning in Iran

November 11th, 2009Fatima (Saudi Arabia)

According to several reports from Iran, Ehsan Fattahian was executed early this morning in Sanandaj Central Prison.

The mobilization of people to this effort has [...]