Herstory
Important role played by Christians, Jews and women in establishing drama Industry in Arab World. Very little is known by the western societies about the interlocking mosaics of the Arab societies from different backgrounds and faiths. The... Read more
Art and Culture
{jcomments on}Tweet Syria is famous for producing soap operas during Ramadan. But this year’s uprising in the face of a brutal crackdown by Bashar al-Assad’s regime is all too real. Now famous actresses play supportive roles and... Read more
Art and Culture
{jcomments on}Tweet The Palestinian Trio musicians Adnan, Wissam and Samir Joubran, arrived at the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s temple 40 days after his death. The memories of their last days together, while performing in... Read more
News
{jcomments on}Tweet Tunisia has led the Middle East on women’s rights and toppling autocracy. Now women are in line to run for office in equal numbers as men in the first elections. The threat of rollbacks and reversals also lurks
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News
{jcomments on}Tweet Mansoor al-Jamri, former editor-in-chief of Al Wasat, says board has voted to give him his job back The top editor of a Bahraini opposition newspaper who was forced to resign and was prosecuted after anti-government... Read more
News
{jcomments on}Tweet Foreign office says deaths of Britons in Gulf state up by a third, but drug offences down FCO figures showed 75 Britons had died, 41 had been hospitalized and one raped during the 12-month period The number of Britons... Read more
News
Tweet {jcomments on} Interior minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz al Saud will give ‘substantial’ sum to charity A top Saudi Arabia official has won “substantial” libel damages against a UK newspaper after it printed... Read more
{jcomments on}Tweet 13 British people were stopped at Tel Aviv airport in July 2011. Five hours later they and 120 other people were in a high security prison in Israel. Hidden video camera inside Israeli prison
Read moreTweet {jcomments on} The regime’s campaign of brutality in Hama could push Syria towards civil war. But how will the international community react?
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Photography
Tweet {jcomments on} With the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, a national project has been launched to preserve the roots of the Palestinian family and its identity. It is an international competition in photography, entitled... Read more