If it hadn’t been for the attentiveness of Dr. Lina El Houssein in the Netherlands, we might never have known – but Doc Jazz’s song ‘HUNGRY’ was played at the end of the Dubai TV program ‘Qabil linniqaash’ (‘Up for Discussion’), which had a special feature about the courageous hunger strike protests of Palestinians in Israeli ‘administrative detention’. A...
Palestinians for Dignity is a group of youth who have taken issue with the Palestinian Authority’s return to negotiations, before their own previously stated conditions were met. The youth group have expressed their disapproval of the fact that Palestinian negotiators have returned to the negotiating table in the beginning of this year, in Amman. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat met with...
This morning we received news through Facebook that Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, formerly of the faculty of Duke and Yale University, and now teaching at Bethlehem University, was arrested yesterday for objecting to an expanding settlement in a Palestinian town. Today, he and two others were released again. Five people from Walaja remained imprisoned by the Israeli army at the publishing...
The end of 2010 is nearing, quite shortly after the start of the Islamic new year 1432. It is obvious that the rhythm of day and night, moon cycles and earth rotations around the sun can be counted and numbered in different ways according to ones culture or religion. At work however, I am accustomed to entering the Gregorian date...
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