This Sheikh Al-Kalbani’s pathetic fatwa is most degrading and most dishonest and unfair way to treat women and most certainly contradicts Islamic teachings that are based on honesty and justice by giving Saudi overseas students and travelling... Read more
News
AMMAN — April 18, 2011 — HE Senator Talal Abu Ghazaleh, chairman and CEO of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org), will deliver a lecture entitled “Politics, Economy or Knowledge” at 6 p.m. on April 19, 2011 at Al Asriyya... Read more
News
Security forces fired on anti-government protesters in Yemen’s capital Sunday as women protested during what is called the “honor and dignity” march, to denounce president’s remarks, he made against women taking part in... Read more
Art and Culture
Jake Bowers the Editor of Gypsy Roma Traveller: I’m not lazy and I do not live at the back of a Wagon By Iqbal Tamimi Travelling the 1000 years journey His life is always on the move like a movie star or a celebrity, if his luck was different... Read more
Women are always secretaries and men are businessmen and bosses, women are always playing assistance not managerial roles. Such ads enforce a wrong stereotypic image of women as underachievers who can’t be in the lead, says Iqbal Tamimi. The... Read more
First Published: 2010-05-11 Even though I have never thought the Borqa or the Niqab is a good idea, and I am against it but I never declared my views because I do respect other people’s choices, says Iqbal Tamimi. Actor/ presenter Robert... Read more
First Published: 2010-05-03 The first of Maktoob’s sites that should have been shut down first is ‘Helwa’. I have been monitoring the website for academic research for a long time, one thing I am sure of; there is hardly any education of women... Read more
Palestinian journalists are injured, kicked, punched, dragged, beaten up or left to bleed until death? Some journalists reporting from conflict zones employed by ginormous media establishments, yet they are not even provided with a crash... Read more
Poetry & Literature
By Iqbal Tamimi Written for the memory of my Iraqi colleague Atwar Bahjat who was killed while reporting from Iraq. The bed of defeat has always been feminine. Ever since the sky was within reach a woman fluffing a wombless vanilla pillow... Read more
By Iqbal Tamimi The Libyan television has aired an interview with one of the top magicians aiding Gaddafi. He warns that the ‘Jinn’, who are supposedly a supernatural creatures occupying a parallel world to that of mankind, and who are claimed... Read more