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Bay Ridge Lving: A Personal Tour
In a city still shaken from the attacks on September 11, 2001, Arab Muslims find themselves in a cosntant struggle of identity, security, and acceptance. However, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn has served as a hub for the immigrant population and gives them a local place that reminds them of the home country In a city still shaken from the attacks on September 11, 2001, Arab Muslims find themselves in a cosntant struggle of identity, securi... more
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Salaam Shalom Educational Foundation Good News for Peace
* EDUCATING FOR PEACE ON THE WEST BANK
Our work with the Palestinian Kindergarten Teachers in the West Bank has been most fruitful and gratifying. These dedicated women understand the potential impact this education can have on themselves, their students and their community. Plans are being made for these teachers to journey in May to C...
* JEWISH AND ARAB STUDENTS PERFORM GRIMMS FAIRY TALES IN ENGLAND
As you read these words our tenth grade Jewish and Arab students are busy working hard - far from their home in Israel. In the bucolic Cotswalds of Gloucestershire, England our students are rehearsing scenes and practicing the lines of Grimm’s Tales written by England’s esteemed poet Carol Ann D...
* A BREATHROUGH EXPERIMENT
The Goal of Salaam Shalom is to develop a generation of youth in the Middle East who can think outside the box, who are open to new ideas and experiences in order to generate new solutions to the old, entrenched problems troubling the Middle East. Ours is a cutting edge program whose purpose is to b...
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Israeli Rabbi proposes to "pain Palestinians until they scream"
The harsh words were written in a newsletter which is distributed to synagogues all over the country and have sparked a fierce response from the The Musawa Center for Arab Rights who want he chief rabbi of Safed, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu punished "at the fullest severity of the law."
In the newsletter planned for release this weekend the Rabbi wrote, "It's time to call the child by its name: Revenge, revenge, revenge. We mustn't forget. We have to take horrible revenge for the terrorist attack at Mercaz Harav yeshiva," referring to the incident in which eight students were killed earlier this month.
"I'm not talking about individual people in particular, I'm talking about the state," Eliyahu wrote. "[The state] has to pain them to the point where they scream 'Enough,' to the point where they fall flat on their face and scream 'help.' Not for the sake of satisfying the need for revenge but for the purposes of deterrence."
He even suggested "hanging the children of the terrorist who carried out the attack in the Mercaz Harav yeshiva from a tree."
The Rabbi then went on to criticise the reaction to the attack from the Israeli government, "Something is amiss among the decision makers at the top. At one time, this [revenge] was a basic component of Israel's policy."
Shouldn't the religious leaders be trying to bridge gaps between the religions instead of incitement to hate? The harsh words were written in a newsletter which is distributed to synagogues all over the country and have sparked a fierce respons... more -
Saudi woman jailed for having coffee with a man
A Saudi businesswoman was detained and strip-searched by Saudi Arabia's religious police for sitting in a Starbucks coffee shop with an unrelated man, taboo in the country, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. A Saudi businesswoman was detained and strip-searched by Saudi Arabia's religious police for sitting in a Starbucks coffee shop w... more
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Ramadan in London
We follow Haidar and his young British Muslim friends as they finish 30 days of fasting from sunrise to sunset. We observe them talking about their experience of fasting over the previous month and about what its like to be an observant young Muslim in British society. We follow Haidar and his young British Muslim friends as they finish 30 days of fasting from sunrise to sunset. We observe them talkin... more
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As Iraqis Vie for Kirkuks Oil, Kurds Become Pawns
KIRKUK, Iraq Even by the skewed standards of a country where millions are homeless or in exile, the squalor of the Kirkuk soccer stadium is a startling sight.
What rankles the stadiums impoverished Kurds most is that while they remain in a foul-smelling limbo, on the other side of town some of the Arabs who were forcibly moved here by Saddam Hussein still live in comfortable suburbs, a legacy of the dictators notorious 1980s Anfal campaign to depopulate Kurdish areas and Arabize Tamim.
NTY Video: http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=614730b662625877a... KIRKUK, Iraq Even by the skewed standards of a country where millions are homeless or in exile, the squalor of the Kirkuk soccer sta... more -
Reel Bad Arabs
Reel Bad Arabs is a groundbreaking book that dissects a slanderous cinematic history. The films examined here date from cinema's earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature machine-gun wielding, bomb-exploding "evil" Arabs. Reel Bad Arabs is a groundbreaking book that dissects a slanderous cinematic history. The films examined here date from cinema's ... more
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MTV Moves to Middle East
MTV Arabia was launched over the weekend, giving young Arabs a tailored and sanitized taste of the hip-hop-pop-reality tv channel. MTV Arabia is to feature 60% international music and local adaptations of the popular non-music shows (The Real World, Dubai?)
"But MTV, which is known for airing provocative videos featuring scantily clad women, says the Arab version of the pop-culture channel will show less bare skin and profanity."
MTV is moving in as big competition for a market dominated by locally produced music video channels. Do you think MTV should be expanding its world domination? Or do you think this is going to have a negative effect on Arab music culture? MTV Arabia was launched over the weekend, giving young Arabs a tailored and sanitized taste of the hip-hop-pop-reality tv channel. MTV... more -
The Dubizzle in Dubai
Dubai rocks -- you just don't know it yet. Check out the richest city in the world and the surging hip, progressive youth faction that inhabits it. Dubai rocks -- you just don't know it yet. Check out the richest city in the world and the surging hip, progressive youth faction... more
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