Photo by Bezav Mahmod I once met Kurdistan. He said to me: I am denied my existence and my identity by heartless oppressors. I am treated as trash by indoctrinated adherents. I am mocked, molested and murdered by those who …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech, Homosexuality, Kurdistan, Kurds | Tagged gay rights, Kurd, LGBT, LGBT rights | 1 CommentBen Lynfield in Jerusalem – As a nine year old slave in Sudan, human rights activist Simon Deng’s masters beat him if he did not answer loudly when they called him. ”They would beat me for not saying yes loudly …
Posted in Civil Rights, Israel, Refugees, Sudan | Tagged Israel, migrant rights | 1 CommentOn the occasion of World Theatre Day, artists from the Tunisian Association of Gradutes of the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts have organized an event on Habib Bourguiba Avenue, in front of the Municipal Theatre, entitled “the People demand theatre.” …
Posted in Activism, Censorship, Culture, Culture and Society, Events, Freedom of Speech, Religion, Society, Tunisia | Tagged Tunisia | Leave a commentAs it becomes clear that one major outcome of the region’s revolutions will be the empowerment of Islamists, the Arab Spring threatens to become a nightmare for the Middle East’s Christian minority. Christians across the Arab world are afraid that …
Posted in Arab Christians, Human Rights, Iraq, Kurdistan, Middle East | Tagged Christians, Iraq, Kurds | Leave a commentMideast Youth commemorates today the third memory of Omid Reza. On this day in 2009, Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian blogger and journalist, died in Evin Prison in Tehran. The December before his death, he was sentenced to two and …
Posted in Freedom of Speech, Iran | Tagged March 18, Omid Reza, OR318 | Leave a commentOn March 15, 2012, the leftist student union, UGET, has won a landslide victory over the Islamist student union, UGTE in the election for the scientific councils at Tunisian universities. This massive win is interesting as it does not reflect …
Posted in Activism, Democracy, Education, Tunisia, Youth | Tagged Tunisia | Leave a commentEvery year, the world commemorates World Day Against Cyber-Censorship on the 12 March. The day was first launched by Reporters Sans Frontières in 2008, and it’s intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet without restrictions and accessible …
Posted in Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Media | Tagged Reporters, Reporters sans frontières, Reporters Without Borders, RSF | Leave a commentIt snowed in Palestine and the heavy rain washed away many things but not human sins. I thought of the huge amount of water running by friends of mine in Al-Auja near Jericho who were prevented from capturing that water …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Civil Rights, Israel, Palestine | Tagged Palestine | 1 Comment“They came to take my son into custody, but he was not home. So they took me instead.” Although this incident happened in 1995, Hayat Altinkaynak remembers it as if it were yesterday, for it was the last time she …
Posted in Awareness, Bad news, Civil Rights, Current Events, Human Rights, Kurdistan, Kurds, Politics, Racism, Turkey, War | Leave a commentJournalist and blogger Hamza Kashgari faces the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, because he had written a fictional dialogue on Twitter, in which he addressed the Prophet of Islam as a human equal. Soon after Hamza received death threats from …
Posted in Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech, Saudi Arabia | Tagged Saudi Arabia | 1 Comment