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Lebanese Parliament Member, Bahia Hariri, received at her office in Majdelyoun a delegation from the Palestinian Association for Human Rights (Witness), including the Director of the Association Mahmoud Hanafi, Public Relations and Media... Read more
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Gathered together in Istanbul from June 28 to July 1st, the Advisory Council of the Anna Lindh Foundation and representatives from the Euro-Mediterranean Youth leaders from 35 countries have confirmed and defined the agenda of the Anna... Read more
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By Iqbal Tamimi A Facebook campaign has been created to search for Timothy MacColl who went missing in Dubai for five weeks. The online campaign that attracted more than 117,000 followers is called Bring Timmy Home. MacColl, a member of HMS... Read more
Opinion
By Iqbal Tamimi A shocking human rights report revealed that more than 82 per cent of Moroccan women are victims of domestic violence, and 52 per cent of recorded incidents of violence against unmarried women are sexual assault. ... Read more
Herstory
By Iqbal Tamimi The Egypt Independent published an article on Sat, 30/06/2012 accusing Sawfat Hegazy, the pro-Muslim Brotherhood preacher who gave the sermon at Friday’s gathering in Tahrir Square, of physically and verbally attacking two... Read more
Herstory
After much dispute and heated argument, with e-petitions to and fro and demonstrations, the NTC finally chose not to impose a quota for female representation. However, the High National Election Commission did decide that for the 80 seats... Read more
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New Study reveals the critical importance of translation as an instrument to combat ‘the clash of ignorance’ between societies on the two shores of the Mediterranean. Brussels, 27th June 2012 – Policies in favour of increasing translation of... Read more
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By Iqbal Tamimi The National Union of Algerian journalists announced Tuesday, 26 June 2012, that the court of Annaba (600 km east of Algiers) sentenced a female journalist working at the regional newspaper (Akher Saa) “The last... Read more
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The unnamed man, alongside a 19-year old Syrian, was caught by an undercover CID officer in the UAE capital attempting to sell 20g of the illegal drug
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By Iqbal Tamimi Baker Atyani, a Jordanian reporter working for the television channel al-Arabiya, is being held captive by the militant leader Radullan Saheron on an island in the southern Philippines
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