Tag Archives: Middle East

First time in History the invisible nation: Iraqi Kurdistan nominated for UN Public Service Award

Posted on by Laween Atroshi

Throughout history the kurds have been forgotten and stigmatized as having a high record of unemployment, lack of human rights and primitive education. To treat this misperception as Kurdish professionals we have a ethical & moral duty to represent Kurdistan …

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The Tunisian Revolution: Brought to you by the Salafists

Posted on by Meriem Dha (Tunisia)

The University of Manouba is still closing its doors to students until further notice. Some female students with niqab were not allowed to sit for the exams last week so they staged an open sit- in with the help of …

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Gandhi, King and Mandela

Posted on by Nissim Dahan

Some 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 …

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Sexphobia and Islam

Posted on by M. Mohamed (Iraq/Palestine)

I recently found myself interested in the roles of women in Islamic (Arab) societies. There is no doubt that women are extremely oppressed with everything that makes them human being shunned away and buried by overuling men. I even found …

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Yes to Peace for Egypt

Posted on by Maikel Nabil Sanad (Egypt)

Yes to Peace for Egypt Before it is for Israel When Ismail Sidqi pasha refused that Egypt would get-in the war of 1948, he wasn’t a traitor to Egypt or loving Israel. All about it is that Ismail Sidqi was …

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Music – Connecting Worlds

Posted on by Sarah Elgindy

There comes a time when you get so entrenched in something that the technicalities overwhelm you.  You’re laboring to the point where it no longer brings you joy like it once did.  It’s no longer fresh or exciting.  The moment …

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Fragments, I’m Going Crazy in El-Marg Prison – 1

Posted on by Maikel Nabil Sanad (Egypt)

Letter from Egyptian prisoner Maikel Nabil: Prison is about deprivation. Deprivation from everything: traveling, working, friends, love, sex, emotions, alcohols, computers, internet, cellphones.. I hate prisons, give me my freedom back.

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Statement by Maikel Nabil – Declaration of hunger strike

Posted on by Maikel Nabil Sanad (Egypt)

“The oppressed is more unjust to himself than his oppressor when he allows oppression to be committed against him.” (Martin Luther King) Dear Director of El-Marg Public Prison, Due to the severe injustice committed against me by the Military Justice …

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An Important Letter from “Maikel Nabil” to Lieutenant General “Sami Anan”

Posted on by Maikel Nabil Sanad (Egypt)

      Lieutenant General/Sami Anan      Chief of Staff of the armed forces             Greetings,       In a press interview with me to a European newspaper, the following day of Mubarak’s …

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How to Help Maikel Nabil in Prison?

Posted on by Maikel Nabil Sanad (Egypt)

The best thing at crisis times is that they make you clearly see your loyal friends. Every crisis I passed through in my life exposed to me the core of people around me… I can say that I’m very happy …

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