Herstory
Zimbabwe’s independent media was coming under sustained attacks. The government attempted to legalize its repression by introducing the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) in March 2002, aiming to limit media... Read more
Opinion
Israel’s nightmare is of a demographic scale. Israel is worried about being outnumbered. For that reason, the answer to such fears was to starve the Palestinians to death and to deprive them of receiving medications hoping that they would die... Read more
Herstory
Palestinian women started taking photographs of families and holy places, ceremonies and weddings, but ended up taking pictures of bodies of killed young children, shelled schools, and ruined homes. Photojournalism in Palestine was... Read more
Opinion
Published: 2009-02-11 Since the first minute the Zionists arrived in Palestine during the first half of the 1900s their policy was clear, it was to empty the land of its indigenous people and house immigrant Jews in their place. Almost 6... Read more
News
First Published: 2009-02-09 One wonders what is legal and what is not when it comes to Gaza. It seems the law in Egypt is extremely elastic and can accommodate all manipulations and tailoring of the law to fit different sizes of growing... Read more
Opinion
First Published: 2009-02-03 Since when has Al Arabiya worried about the emotions of women in Gaza or has been concerned that the children can’t sleep? How else would people around the world know the scale of cruelty and destruction caused by... Read more
Herstory
Kulthum Odeh was the first woman in the Arab world to carry the title of a Professor and to establish an institute in Russia
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Poetry & Literature
First Published: 2008-08-13 ‘Send me an embarrassed tune written with your silent eyes’, recites Iqbal Tamimi in dedication to Palestinian national poet Mahmud Darwish
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Opinion
‘Decline to comment’ is the most versatile expression that can be used when policies were knitted in the dark.
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Opinion
First Published: 2008-07-19 The Israeli soldiers were described as ‘boys’ even though they were on a military mission by the ages of 27 and 32. While Kuntar, who was 16 when he went for his own individual mission, was... Read more