Last week, Norway and other Western countries try to stop reforming the wording of a UN resolution that will protect all people against the killings and executions based on discrimination.they tried to include sexual orientation a part of this resolution …
Posted in Assholes, Bad news, Culture, Culture and Society, Gender, Homosexuality, Human Rights, Middle East, Minorities | 3 CommentsIt was on monday sept 27 around 3am Egypt, Cairo, Downtown, Tahreer Squair, Talat Harb st. We were sitting on a cafe-shop, when we saw a young boy (Kareem he is 16 and he lives in El Salam) beeing offended …
Posted in Civil Rights, Culture and Society, Egypt, Gender, Homosexuality, Minorities, Sexism, Society, Taboos | Tagged homophobia | Leave a commentWhats funny is that despite being into the 21st century for a decade now, some issues prevail which might confuse aliens from Mars to think residents of the Earth (aka us), still belong in the 15th Century or even earlier. …
Posted in Activism, Gender, Saudi Arabia, Sex, Sexism, Society, Women | Tagged Gender, Saudi Arabia, Sexism, women rights | 4 CommentsWasta is what runs this place. It determines how people treat you, if you have electricity in your house and how fast you’ll be served at a restaurant.
Posted in Culture, Gender, Iraq, Kurdistan, Kurds, Media | Tagged clout, family, family ties, Iraq, KRG, Kurdish, Kurdistan, Kurds, Politics, visa, wasta, who you know | 16 CommentsHere’s another piece for my art blog on Mideast Youth. It’s called ‘Blue, Badges, Burka’, oil and acrylic on board and 122 x 174 cm. See more here.
Posted in Art, Awareness, Civil Rights, Creativity, Culture, Entertainment, Gender, General, Humor, Interfaith, Islam, Islamophobia, Media, Photography, Politics, Satire, Sex, Society, Taboos, Women, Youth | 2 CommentsSometimes when I describe my house to my friends, I tell them to get off the Omdurman bridge and go straight after they see “Awadia Fishes” to their right. Awadia has become a landmark in Omdurman, hundreds of people commute from Khartoum and Bahri to eat Awadia’s fish. When you go there, you probably wouldn’t see her sitting at the reception desk, if you look outside the new, fairly-modern restaurant, you will see a woman of significant size dressed in black sitting on a tiny metal chair under the boiling sun.
Posted in Culture, Gender, Interviews, Society, Sudan, Women | 1 CommentDr Opal Palmer Adisa is an award-winning Jamaican-American novelist, editor, teacher, performer, poet, and activist.
Opal Palmer Adisa, who served as the Chair of the Ethnic Studies/Cultural Diversity Program at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland since 1993, fights against oppression throughout her poetry and live performances, and she’s also a feminist and child advocate.
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Creative Media, Culture, Egypt, Gender, Podcasts, Poetry, Women | Tagged Jamaica and The Caribbean, Nanny of the Maroons, Opal Palmer Adisa, Queen Nanny | 2 CommentsAmir-Ata Jokar
Child of “Gholamreza”
Birthday: 2008.11.20
Which is died at one month of age because of circumcision at Fasa Hospital.
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Posted in Art, Creative Media, Culture, Entertainment, Freedom of Speech, Gender, Islam, Islamophobia, Photography, Religion, Satire, Taboos, Women | 3 CommentsAhmadinejad’s government is innovative in every respect and now it comes with sexism in economic! You may wonder as I wondered and pissed off when I saw this new se.xism “no comment” news. Yesterday, separation of male and female in …
Posted in Gender, Iran, Islam, Photos, Sexism, Women | 7 Comments