Tag Archives: Middle East
Posted on January 19, 2012 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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Activism,
Afghanistan,
Awareness,
Civil Rights,
Foreign Affairs,
Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Kurds,
Middle East,
Youth |
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clean technology,
Education,
Green Prophet,
Human Rights,
Iran,
Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Kurds,
Middle East |
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Posted on December 11, 2011 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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Tunisia |
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Education,
Freedom,
Middle East,
salafism,
Tunisian revolution,
wahhabism |
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Posted on November 29, 2011 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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Activism,
Current Events,
Democracy,
Demonstrations,
Economy,
Freedom of Speech,
Middle East,
Politics,
Regional Issues |
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Egypt,
Middle East |
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Posted on November 7, 2011 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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Islam,
Sex,
Society,
Taboos |
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Arab,
Egpyt,
Islam,
Lebanon,
Middle East,
Religion,
Saudi,
Sex,
Syria |
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Posted on September 27, 2011 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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Censorship,
Civil Rights,
Democracy,
Egypt,
Freedom of Speech,
History,
Middle East,
Nationalism,
Philosophy,
Politics,
Regional Issues,
Society,
Taboos,
Terrorism,
War |
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antimilitarism,
corruption,
Egypt,
Human Rights,
Israel,
Maikel Nabil,
Middle East,
pacifism,
peace,
Politics,
prison,
revolution,
SCAF |
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Posted on September 18, 2011 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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Creativity,
Culture and Society,
Middle East,
Music |
Tagged
blood or love,
Middle East,
Mideast Tunes,
mideastunes,
Music |
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Posted on August 27, 2011 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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Democracy,
Egypt,
Freedom of Speech,
Human Rights |
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Egypt,
Human Rights,
Maikel Nabil,
Middle East,
Politics,
prison,
revolution,
SCAF |
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Posted on August 26, 2011 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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Civil Rights,
Current Events,
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Egypt,
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Middle East,
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corruption,
Egypt,
Human Rights,
Maikel Nabil,
Middle East,
Politics,
revolution,
Sami Anan,
SCAF |
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Posted on August 19, 2011 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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Youth |
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Posted on July 12, 2011 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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Human Rights,
Middle East,
Politics |
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