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Mapping Palestinian Expulsions in Hebrew
- Inter Press Service
TEL AVIV, Apr 18 (IPS) - Fireworks went off over the Tel Aviv skyline this week as thousands of flag-waving Israelis marked the 65th anniversary of their country's founding. At the same time, a smaller group of Israeli activists explored the other, most often ignored, side to their country's creation: the forced displaced of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Time to Decolonise the World Social Forum
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Apr 17 (IPS) - When participants at the 2011 World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal, received word that former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had stepped down, swept away by a wave of popular resistance that brought millions of Egyptians into the streets, few could contain their joy.
Missing Christian Girls Leave Trail of Tears
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Apr 16 (IPS) - When a young Christian girl goes missing in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, her family will call on a certain Muslim sheikh in the nearby town of El-Ameriya.
Culture Is the New Resistance
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Apr 14 (IPS) - Ela, a young Tunisian woman whose face is barely visible behind her niqab, says she has spent five months protesting a university ban against the religious garment in the classroom "to no avail". On the other side of the capital Tunis, a group of students decked out in djellabas and keffiyehs (traditional Tunisian costumes) with the Tunisian flag wrapped around their shoulders, perform the Harlem Shake: a dance form that originated in the United States in the early 1980s but has recently gone viral online as a popular meme.
Tents Take on Settlements
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Apr 13 (IPS) - Tent cities are being set up by Palestinians all over the West Bank to protest against Israeli settlements, building on a protest during the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama last month.
High Stakes for Engaging Morsi's Egypt
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 13 (IPS) - Women and minorities should be a top priority in U.S. policy toward Egypt and its Muslim Brotherhood government leaders, experts here said on Friday, despite increasingly unfavourable public views towards Egypt.
Oil Flows Beneath the Battlefield
- Inter Press Service
DERIK, Syria, Apr 11 (IPS) - At seven o'clock in the morning on Mar. 1, Kurdish militias took over the only operational oil refinery in Syria, located about 800 kilometres northwest of Damascus.
OP-ED: Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood and Democracy: A Sputtering Start
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 09 (IPS) - The governing programme of Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood has been disappointing. His commitment to genuine democracy has been faltering, and his efforts at inclusion and political tolerance have been wanting.
Tunisia Now Exporting “Jihadis”
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Apr 06 (IPS) - Tunisian families have begun to dread knocks on their doors, or late-night phone calls, fearing that the messenger will bear the news that their son has been smuggled out of the country to join the "jihad" in Syria.
Free Ticket to 'Apartheid'
- Inter Press Service
AZZUN ATME, Occupied West Bank, Apr 06 (IPS) - "At least we are not treated like dogs and made to feel so uncomfortable," Amjad Samara, 30, a labourer from Nablus in the northern West Bank told IPS as he and a group of Palestinians waited at the checkpoint near Qalqilia to cross into Israel for their day job.
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