Tag Archives: Arabs

Can you help Kurds to have a remembrance day for the Genocide?

Posted on by Laween Atroshi

Dear 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 …

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The Family of Mohammad, the Refugee.

Posted on by Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestine)

I met the family of Mohammed by accident as I offered them a ride back to their home in Dheisheh refugee camp from Gush Etzion colonial offices where they were seeking (unsuccessfully) a permit to enter Jerusalem for medical treatments …

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Hamas and Fateh: Hatred Manufacturing

Posted on by Sami, the beduin.

He held my head in his hand and said smiling: “Are you ready to sell your head?”, and knowing the trick and who he was, I said “No, never!!” But he added: “We need people like you who speak and …

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Viva, Viva Negotiations Forever

Posted on by Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestine)

Returning from the Friday demonstration in Al-Walaja in unbearable heat. The talks about the talks about the peace talks are to resume in Washington September2nd. The Obama administration decided not to spend any political capital challenging the Israeli lobby. In …

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Dr. Salmi: The Hazy Lines of the Desert

Posted on by Sami, the beduin.

Reading between the lines is a special art that needs the sixth sense to guess of what is untold, what is hidden deep behind the words, but the more important is to reconstruct (after deconstructing the elements into its basic …

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Gilad Shalit and Hamid the bedouin

Posted on by Sami, the beduin.

This is not the first time I write of Shalit, but it is the first time I would ever write of Hamid (the bedouin) my own uncle. No one would understand the Shalits’ sorrow and pain (specially the mother) but …

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Death Cry- Part Five !!!

Posted on by Sami, the beduin.

Six days of continuous interrogation, about what? Only about you Sonia. I lost conscious hundreds times, the blood bruised hot out of my head, cold out of my limbs. I saw God and the Messengers, I saw death. Why? It …

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Death Cry- Part Two !!!

Posted on by Sami, the beduin.

Oh Almighty God! Oh merciful God! Who’s that god you extend your hands to Sheikh Buddha? Can he hear you? Does he see? … God forgive! Oh Great God of the celestial throne, where are you now?? I looked up …

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DIY Damascus: Interview with Syrian Punk Band, Mazhott

Posted on by Marwan (Al Thawra)

This is Damascus… If you want to play punk, you need to really want to. The hand of politics is everywhere. Both US foreign policy and domestic law can make or break your band: trade embargoes determine whether or not you can get equipment and censors make it difficult to speak about any real issues. While the suffocating restrictions and obstacles are annoying, the fact that the punks exist is a testament to their perseverance.

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Existentialist In The Zionist Jail !!!

Posted on by Sami, the beduin.

One day I was standing by the window gazing vacantly and smoking at the lunch break at work, when a colleague came and stood by me without me noticing her. I was looking out blankly and she was, probably, looking …

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