Tag Archives: Politics

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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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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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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Imran Khan: The Influential Hero of Pakistani Youth

Posted on by Junaid (Pakistani)

“Imran Khan is indisputably the greatest cricketer to emerge from Pakistan … He took a mediocre side and transformed them into world-beaters, leading them to the World Cup title in 1992” ESPN Cricinfo Imran Khan was born in Lahore, Pakistan, …

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Pakistan 2011- Democracy or Dictatorship

Posted on by Junaid (Pakistani)

It is very unfortunate that after 63 years of creation of Pakistan added to the 200 years of struggle against foreign intruders, we are still debating over Democracy and Dictatorship is Pakistan. We were able to get an independent state …

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Why I Say No to Revolution – Pakistan?

Posted on by Syed Abdul Wahab Gilani (Pakistan)

Revolution, on the brink of revolution and revolution; the only panacea. Probably you have tired and badly fed up of listening to these revolutionary statements. On top of these statements one would heard “There will be a lot of bloodshed …

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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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