15 March 2011SIX failed asylum seekers are starving themselves to death outside Lunar House in protest at human rights abuses in Iran.For the past eleven days the men have been on hunger strike outside the headquarters of the UK Border Agency... Read more
Opinion
First Published: 2009-03-21 I would like to remind Google on Mother’s Day that Mary the Mother of Christ, who happens to be the most important icon of motherhood in history, is a Palestinian Mother, notes Iqbal Tamimi. On the 21st of March... Read more
Poetry & Literature
Once upon a time, here was a mother, a child, and there was a green green Palestine, recites Iqbal Tamimi. Once upon a time There was a home for every mother And neighbours used to love each other Once upon a time There was a green... Read more
The Rory Peck Awards 2011, sponsored by Sony Professional, are now OPEN FOR ENTRIES The only competition in the world dedicated to the work freelance cameramen and women in news and current affairs has three competitive categories: The Rory... Read more
Poetry & Literature
by Iqbal Tamimi for Ismael Shammout I bridge two points with hesitation It’s a step back The shoulders of memories That used to jostle me in a crowd Evade me I slip in the bosom of surprise Your eyes undressed Exposing … silent cries... Read more
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