Farid al a trash biography of mahatma
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‘Palestinian Gandhi’ Issa Amro Charged with ‘Hurting a Soldier’s Dignity’
NONVIOLENCE, 5 Dec 2016
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service
24 Nov 2016
Issa Amro, founder of Youth Against Settlements, says he was inspired bygd Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Photo bygd Oren Ziv/ ActiveStills
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Hebron activist’s trial opens amid calls to drop “baseless and politically motivated charges”
By Andrea Valentino, Palestine Monitor
November 23, 2016
Issa Amro, a well-known Palestinian activist, is in court today [Thursday 23rd] as his long-awaited rättegång begins.
Amro, co-founder of the Hebron-based campaign group ungdom Against Settlements, is charged on eighteen counts, the earliest relating to an incident from 2010. According to the court deposition, Amro’s charges include “obstructing a soldier” and “insulting a soldier.”
This second charge, dating from July 2013, specifies that “th
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The Fool Sings a Hero’s Song: Shaaban Abdel Rahim, Egyptian Shaabi, and the Video Clip Phenomenon
“If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.”
-- Mahatma Gandhi
When twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad were published in Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005, few foresaw the violent backlash that transpired as a result of their reissue in several European newspapers at the start of 2006. Beyond Danish Muslims, who soon mobilized protests in response, the cartoons at first garnered little international attention. By early February 2006, however, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen was describing the situation as Denmark’s worst international crisis since World War II, a statement brought home by the 139 demonstrators dead and 823 wounded in chaotic protests in Afghanistan, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Somalia. The initial violent backlashes occurred after the cartoons were reprint
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Between Yemen, Sudan, and Beyond: An Interview with Dr. Nizar Ghanem
Interview E I EE E E S ER IE I R I R E O E GABRIEL LAVIN I a l a ll h fi plexities of life and living into the two-dimensional medium of writing. It only takes interviewing someone like Nizar Ghanem, a poet, musician, and physician with the family history, life experience, and encyclopaedic knowledge to be reminded of this fact. Born in Crater, Aden in 1958 as the youngest child of Munira Luqman, daughter of Muhama l a a h w a a M ha a h ha N a wa a in a home that was an apex of Aden’s intellectual and artistic life. Although Munira Luqman did not have a formal education due to the absence of women’s education during the early twentieth century, being the daughh fig h a l gh vided an alternative sort of schooling. While growing up she met everyone from Mahatma Gandhi to Arab political reformers who were greeted by her father when passing through Aden, then one of the busiest ports in the world, that brought in as