Hamza Kashgari, a young journalist has caused a wide anger among Saudis when tweeting on the Mawlid (the Holy Prophet’s birthday). His tweets included his opinions about the prophet, how he’s equal to him and how he hated some of …
Posted in Activism, Atheism, Censorship, Current Events, Freedom of Speech, Islam, Media, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Society, Taboos | Tagged blasphemy, hamza, prophet, Saudi, Twitter | 8 CommentsFor the last few days, hundreds of diplomats and politicians of various importance have gathered in New York to Talk About Syria. News media has been abuzz with the back and forth like high schoolers passing notes. Russia did what? …
Posted in Current Events, Demonstrations, Foreign Affairs, Syria | Tagged Syria | Leave a commentDear Friends of Kurdistan, I have set up an e-petition urging the British Government to recognize the Genocide inflicted upon the Kurdish population by the former regime of Saddam Hussein. If we get 100,000 signatures than they will debate this …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Iran, Iraq, Kurds, Middle East | Tagged Alliance for Kurdish Rights, Arab, Arabs, Barack Obama, Egypt, Environment, Green Prophet, help, Human Rights, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Jews, Jordan, Kurdish Human Rights, kurdish rights, Kurdish Youth, kurdish youth festival, Kurdistan, Kurds, Lebanon, Maikel Nabil, Maikel Nabil trial, Palestine, peace, petition, Politics, Religion, revolution, Saudi Arabia, Women | 1 CommentFor the third day now, protesters in Egypt have been subjected to another round of horrifying violence by the counterrevolutionary forces of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces. Protester have staged a completely peaceful sit-in in front of Egyptian cabinet …
Posted in Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Demonstrations, Egypt | Tagged Egypt | Leave a commentThere are at least 120,000 Bidun jinsiyya (without nationality) in Kuwait today suffering from the lack of human rights. They cannot legally obtain birth, death, marriage or divorce certificates. The same applies to driving licenses, identification cards, and passports. They …
Posted in Civil Rights, Current Events, Demonstrations, Kuwait | Tagged Kuwait | 3 CommentsA new stage of the Syrian revolution has begun. After nine months of brutality and a conservative death toll at 5,000, Syrians are still congregating and protesting in the usual manner, but the local coordinating committees have brought out a new tool …
Posted in Civil Rights, Current Events, Demonstrations, Syria | Tagged Syria | Leave a commentTunisians are keeping an eye on the representatives they elected on October 23. Occupy Bardo is a open sit-in held in front of the National Constituent Assembly premises, seat of the former Camber of Deputies to demand transparency of the …
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Demonstrations, Education, Freedom of Speech, Politics, Tunisia, Youth | Tagged Tunisia | 1 CommentLast week, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered an apology for the killings of 13.806 in the southeastern town of Dersim, Tunceli, between 1936 and 1939. The apology came after quarrel or a war of words between Erdogan …
Posted in Civil Rights, Current Events, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | Tagged erdogan, Kurds, Turkey | Leave a commentSome of the strongmen of the Middle East are no longer in the picture, but who, and what, will come to replace them? Yesterday’s parliamentary elections in Egypt is a case in point. Certainly, there was a sense of hope …
Posted in Activism, Current Events, Democracy, Demonstrations, Economy, Freedom of Speech, Middle East, Politics, Regional Issues | Tagged Egypt, Middle East | 2 CommentsMilitarists told me that my case differs from the case of Alaa Abd El Fattah, because Alaa isn’t tried as being a political activist… I look in their eyes and ask them, …“Is it a confession that I am being …
Posted in Bad news, Censorship, Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, News and Politics | Tagged Maikel Nabil | 5 Comments