Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ZENATI Hassen
ALGIERS: The young woman’s smile is sad, her greeting weary. Assaulted by her half brother, Farida took refuge in one of 30 safe houses throughout the Algerian capital that shelter abused women.
“After she was assaulted, Farida practically lost her mind,” recalled Myriam Belala, president of a (…)
, by AL-FADHILY Ali, JAMAIL Dahr
BAGHDAD, Dec. 7 (IPS) - Hundreds of thousands of widows are becoming the silent tragedy of a country sliding deeper into chaos by the day.
Widows are the flip side of violence that has meant more than a million men dead, detained or disabled, Iraqi NGOs estimate. These men’s wives or mothers (…)
, by EHSANI Kaveh
The August 31 UN Security Council deadline for Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program passed with the Islamic Republic, not unexpectedly, refusing to acquiesce. In the summer of 2005, the newly inaugurated President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reversed his predecessor Mohammad Khatami’s (…)
, by INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN SUPPORT OF THE RESISTANCE
In order to transform the historic victory achieved by the Lebanese resistance against the Israeli aggression which targeted the Lebanese population on the 12th of July 2006, into an incentive for reinvigorating the struggle for comprehensive Arab liberation and to direct it against the Zionist (…)
, by PILGER John
In a show trial whose theatrical climax was clearly timed to promote George W Bush in the American midterm elections, Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced to hang. Drivel about “end of an era” and “a new start for Iraq” was promoted by the usual false moral accountants, who uttered not a (…)
, by DEARDEN Nick
In March 2004, four American guards were attacked and killed in the Iraqi town of Fallujah. Their charred bodies were beaten and dragged through the streets in front of television cameras, and two of the corpses were hung from a bridge over the river Euphrates.
The following month, eight (…)
, by HAJJI Lufti
The 18 October Coalition for Rights and Freedoms was born in 2005 when a consensus was reached among a group of Tunisian political parties and civil associations of diverse, or even contradictory, ideological orientations. It was formed on the basis of common goals rather than on ideological (…)
, by FISK Robert
So America’s one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington’s best friend in the Arab world. America knew all about his atrocities and even supplied the gas - along with the British, of course - yet there we were yesterday declaring it to be, in the (…)
, by MIFTAH
The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH) urges the international community to take immediate action to end Israel’s military aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. In particular, we call upon members of civil society (…)
, by NASSER Nicola
Avigdor Lieberman’s ascent to a strategic executive role in Israel has unmasked the artificial divide between left and right and revealed the mainstream ruling elite as still in consensus on the Zionist goals, a fact that rules out any credible peace process in the foreseeable future and dooms (…)
, by MERRIMAN Rima
The terrible imbalance of power between the Israelis and Palestinians makes it impossible for Israel, regardless of which government is in power, to deal with the Palestinians in any way except through a lens of assumed moral, cultural, and racial superiority, as though military prowess equates (…)
, by OWEN Roger
Fifty years on, four main lessons may be learned from the events surrounding the Suez crisis, writes Roger Owen*
The Suez crisis of October 1956 was one of those seminal twentieth-century events which connected the emerging Cold War with the early period of post- colonial independence. (…)
, by ISSA Salah
Salah Issa* reviews the July Revolution’s achievement in the years separating the 1956 victory at Suez from the 1967 Suez defeat
I saw my first theatre performance during the first week of November 1956, on the National Theatre stage. It was a day-time performance, 2pm-5pm, scheduled to (…)
, by AMIN Galal
Galal Amin* charts the course of history from the Canal nationalisation of 1956 to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and reveals some startling similarities
I was 21 when Nasser announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company and I still remember, as if it were yesterday, the great joy and (…)
, by NAFAA Hassan
The 50th anniversary of the Suez aggression falls only months after Israel’s recent attacks on Lebanon. What connections can be drawn between the two events, asks Hassan Nafaa*
At sunset on Monday, 29 October 1956, Israel launched a massive offensive across the Sinai Desert as the French and (…)
, by FARAG Fatimah
Labour, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Left and the State; the mix could be explosive, reports Fatemah Farag
“The Muslim Brotherhood is contending these elections openly, and under their own banner, for the first time; economic and social pressures are squeezing the working class; contentious (…)
, by BISHARA Azmi
Avigdor Lieberman’s arrival in the Israeli cabinet is symptomatic of the degradation of the country’s political system, writes Azmi Bishara
Israel will probably not adopt a presidential system now that Avigdor Lieberman’s party has joined the government coalition though the acceptance of his (…)
, by BULLIMORE Kim
Israeli cabinet minister Jacob Edery admitted on October 22 that Israel had used white phosphorus, a substance that burns when it comes into contact with air, during its 34-day July-August war on Lebanon.
Associated Press reported that Edery, speaking on behalf of defence minister Amir (…)
, by QUALANDER Nicolas
“Islam is no more incapable than any other ideology of adapting, or of being adapted to, new realities. The Muslim peoples, with or without Islam, can progress or go backwards, their governments can be totalitarian or liberal, their masses can be open to multiple currents of thought or (…)
, by AND Network
“Thousands of Iraqi women are being taken advantage of by unscrupulous sex worker traffickers seeking to exploit young girls’ desperate socio-economic situation for profit, United Nations agencies have reported.” (AND Network).
Mariam, 16, relives the day her father in Baghdad sold her off as (…)
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