Satire

This story happened more than 70 or 80 years ago, in the Galilee Heights, during the British occupation “Mandate” to Palestine, a long time before we had the “honor” to host our “cousins’ the jews. There, in one of the Galilee villages, there was a Palestinian peasant who had a stubborn donkey. Both, the peasant [...]

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 stimulated in any way.
The question we need to ask here is not why such pathetic attempts at film-making are still being made, it’s simply: why is the public still interested in such films?

A few months ago, we wrote about the Bitfilm Festival, whom we are a partner with, to give attention to some digital mash-ups that we have done in the past few years. This morning, they just started accepting votes. Four of our videos are currently competing for an award for the “Politicool” category.
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In recent months, Iran has escalated its campaign of arrests against Baha’is. Dozens of Baha’is currently languish in prisons, with no hope of being accorded a fair trial. Those reportedly arrested weren’t criminals, thieves or murderers but were in fact community leaders, social activists and educators who strove to serve their communities.
The Iranian regime has [...]

This one-gloved thriller star is being sued by a local prince here for going against some “contract” and not recording songs about peace or something. Not that anyone cares what he does. But sometimes I do, because I grew up obsessing with him. Then I wasn’t sure if he was white or black or if [...]

The kingdom is advancing greatly in the integration of computers into the government, and also aims to better it’s e-governmental presence.. Aiming to improve the various services offered to the citizens of Saudi Arabia. However, it may seem like great news, but it’s only in few parts of the government services.
The Legal procedure of marriage [...]

In 1925, Egypt became the first Muslim-majority country to recognize the Baha’i faith as an independent religion. However, almost 80 years later, Baha’is in Egypt continue to face heinous discrimination, due to their failure to obtain identity cards. Identity cards are the key towards gaining access to education, health care, and economic opportunities. Without them, [...]

A wise person once said “Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine”. And it is with that spirit that president Ahmadinejad announced his new reform policies, in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of the Middle East.
Recognizing that no society can possibly be built [...]

A little rusty after 18 years of censorship. The interview with Ahmad Mansour on بلا حدود was ostensibly about the regulations recently drawn up by Arab Information Ministers to regulate, censor and otherwise muzzle unruly satellite channels which often wound the feelings and sensibilities of Arab dictators and their extended literal and metaphorical families.
This explains [...]

(Chicago) — Well, I’m off this morning on a 10-day tour of selected campuses in the United States for the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour to see if the experiment works in the US as well as it has in Israel and Palestine.
The reality is that Israelis and Palestinians in Israel and Palestine are not as extremist [...]