What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when hearing the words “the little boy”? Innocence? A new life? White and blue? Or maybe even a toy? 67 years ago, in Japan, “THE LITTLE BOY” didn’t mean innocence; it …
Posted in Arabs, Culture, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Iraq, Literature, Middle East, War | Tagged Iraq | 2 CommentsThis is something I wrote when I was thinking how war/life in middle east stole away my (and many other’s) childhood, and shuttered most of our dreams, but I’m still trying to pick up the pieces of my dreams, and …
Posted in Arabs, Art, Iraq, Literature, Poetry, Youth | 6 CommentsIts amazing how random a chance meeting in Tweed Heads (Northern NSW east coast of Australia) can end you up in a 5 star hotel in Egypt on the banks of the Nile. This’ll be my first departure from Australia …
Posted in Activism, Arabs, Countries/Regions, Creative Media, Culture, Culture and Society, Current Events, Demonstrations, Egypt, Film, Fun and Recreation, Fun Stuff, History, Humor, Interviews, News and Politics, Philosophy, Photos, Politics, Regional Issues, Society, Videos | Leave a commentFeras Baqna, Hussam Al-Drewesh and Khaled Al-Rashed started an online television series based in Saudi Arabia called “We are being cheated.” They posted several episodes on topics that are often not covered by mainstream Saudi television. The last episode was …
Posted in Activism, Arabs, Awareness, Censorship, Civil Rights, Current Events, Education, Freedom of Speech, Media, Saudi Arabia, Society, Youth | Tagged Free Speech, Mal3ob3lena, Saudi Arabia | 2 CommentsWell….now comes the hardest part, building a nation. For the sake of simplicity I will use the example of Libya. With all the diverse demographics how will the Libyans come together to build the ideal democracy? Arabs, by no fault …
Posted in Activism, Arabs, Awareness, Education, Islam, Middle East, Philosophy | Tagged Islam, secular, secularism | 1 CommentGod as an old bearded men: For some devout Muslims, a film accused of blasphemy caused angry protests in Tunisia. The riots were directed against a television station that broadcast to the French-Iranian film “Persepolis.” ,and today they hit the …
Posted in Arabs, Art, Censorship, Comics, Creativity, Education, Entertainment, Film, Iran, Tunisia | Tagged Censorship, Tunisia | 3 CommentsIn the seventies and eighties of last century, militant Islamist opposition appeared, which was the strongest of the opposition movements, which was able to challenge the July militarist regime… This opposition reached its peak on October, 1981, when it assassinated …
Posted in Arabs, Censorship, Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Egypt, Ethics, Freedom of Speech, History, Islam, Israel, Nationalism, Politics, Regional Issues, Religion, Society, Taboos, Terrorism, War | Tagged antimilitarism, Egypt, Israel, Maikel Nabil, pacifism | 1 Comment“Woe for a nation that eats from what it doesn’t plant and wears from what it doesn’t sew” – Chinese wisdom. And this is how in a few decades China turned out from a feudal country into the first industrial …
Posted in Arabs, Censorship, Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Economy, Freedom of Speech, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Politics | Tagged illegal settlements, israel jews palestine tribalism bedouin peace gaza negev zionism nazism, israel zionism settlement shalom palestine west bank peace love jews jew, Palestine, UNRWA, world Bank | Leave a commentPart I – Delineating Differences As queer Arab activists working on the ground in several countries in the Middle East, our initial disagreements with GayMiddleEast.com were political in nature. But rather than respond to them or engage in dialogue with …
Posted in Activism, Arabs, Regional Issues | 9 CommentsAfter Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight in protest at repeated ill-treatment by the police, the whole Arab world echoed his scream of pain and call for justice and many countries were shaken by anti-government demonstrations. Mohamed Bouazizi is a street …
Posted in Activism, Arabs, Art, Civil Rights, Creative Media, Creativity, Culture and Society, Democracy, Film, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Middle East, Youth | 4 Comments