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Young girl injured by Israeli fire inspires calls for freedom from Israeli oppression

October 26, 2014October 26, 2014 Mohammed Asad No Comments

Young girl injured by Israeli fire inspires calls for freedom from Israeli oppression By Mohammed Asad Dalia Khalifa, a 9-year old Palestinian girl, was seriously injured during the Israeli offensive on Gaza Strip, at Zaytoon neighborhood. Khalifa came out of her family’s house was hit randomly by Israeli shelling of the town. With her injures and blood…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Features, Israel, Mohammed Asad, Palestine & Jordan, Spotlight

A Day at the Syrian-Turkish Border, refugees and relief

October 25, 2014August 20, 2019 Abdennour Toumi 1 Comment

A Day at the Syrian-Turkish Border, refugees and relief By Abdennour Toumi Nusaybin-Turkey — The Nusaybin gate stands in Qamishli, a city controlled by the PYD, in a self-proclaimed administrative territory in northeastern Syria. At this border gate the Assad regime still controls the administrative process (paper work). A giant smiling portrait of President Assad hangs on a…

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Tunisian elections: Youngest female candidate poised to make history

October 25, 2014October 26, 2014 Ali Younes No Comments

Tunisian elections: Youngest female candidate poised to make history By: Ali Younes The Tunisian Parliamentary elections are entering its last day before Tunisians go to the polls to cast their votes in highly contested and very polarized elections. But for Dhauha Cherif, this election is a special one because she might be making history…

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Leader: Tunisian National Unity is more important than Sharia, Jihad

October 25, 2014October 27, 2014 Ali Younes No Comments

Leader: Tunisian National Unity is more important than Islamic law, Jihad. By: Ali Younes Speaking to Sheikh Farid al Baji on the eve of the Parliamentary elections in Tunisia due to take place this coming Sunday was full of surprises. Al Baji, 46, who spoke to me at his office in the Tunisian capital, Tunis,…

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Life Run Releases Wireless Technology Designed for Round-the-Clock Senior Safety

October 24, 2014October 24, 2014 rayhanania No Comments

Life Run Releases Wireless Technology Designed for Round-The-Clock Senior Safety LifeRun Releases a Wireless Technology Medical Alert System that allows the user to speak and listen through a pendant, giving way for round-the-clock senior safety and supervision. LifeRun’s new, innovative technology has come to light just in time for the vastly growing senior citizen population….

Activism, American Arabs, Features, Health, Press Releases

Holy Christian Ecumenical Foundation forges coalition to Help Holy Land Christians

October 24, 2014October 24, 2014 rayhanania No Comments

Holy Christian Ecumenical Foundation forges coalition to Help Holy Land Christians (WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/23/14) – A group of American Muslim and Christian organizations today announced the formation of an interfaith coalition to protect Christians and other religious minorities in Arab countries and to promote peaceful coexistence. Leaders of major Muslim and Christian organizations, religious leaders…

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A Great Book

October 23, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

A Great Book_Invisible Cities by Yousef Khatib “In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote ‘Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and…

Arabs of Chicagoland to celebrate Arab Heritage Month in November

October 23, 2014October 2, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Arabs of Chicagoland to celebrate Arab Heritage Month in November By Ray Hanania Although Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel gutted the involvement of American Arabs in Chicago government, the world is bigger than his pettiness and anti-Arab racism. Emanuel eliminated the Advisory Commission on Arab Affairs after his election in 2011. He used the consolidation of…

American Arabs, Bloggers, Commentary, Features, Ray Hanania

Let’s Kill The Demons Of Geography & Politics

October 21, 2014October 21, 2014 rayhanania No Comments

Let’s Kill The Demons Of Geography & Politics The New World/Map By Yousef Khatib War embeds architecture into the mode of genesis and renders it into metamorphosis. War is patriarch and architecture is fecund. Urbanism and city are their progeny Warchitecture is their metis. Man is their author and martyr. Earth is their house. Past…

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Israel/Palestine Conflict: Time now to change to a human rights approach

October 21, 2014October 21, 2014 rayhanania No Comments

Israel/Palestine Conflict: Time now to change to a human rights approach By Edith Garwood The same day Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General, visited the Gaza Strip saying, “a restrictive occupation that has lasted almost half a century, the continued denial of Palestinian rights and the lack of tangible progress in peace negotiations” was the…

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Farouk Shami urges diaspora to build industry and jobs in Palestine

October 19, 2014October 19, 2014 rayhanania 1 Comment

Farouk Shami urges diaspora to build industry and jobs in Palestine By Ray Hanania Palestinian American businessman Farouk Shami, who has used his entrepreneurial success and his high public profile activism to strengthen a more positive image of Palestinians, urged the attendees at the 16th Annual Convention of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation to build…

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Thesis1 by y o u s e f

October 19, 2014October 19, 2014 rayhanania No Comments

Acknowledgements I would like to thank my supervisor Professor Mark Dorrian for his support, guidance, and intellectual direction throughout my work, so as Aikaterini Antonopoulou and Tijana Stevanovic who have provided me with exceptionally useful advice on the various stages of my design research. Feedback from various reviewers has been truly invaluable and highly enriched…

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Ashrawi warns Israel destroying Christian presence in the Holy Land at Middle East Christian confab

October 19, 2014October 19, 2014 rayhanania 1 Comment

Ashrawi warns Israel destroying Christian presence in the Holy Land at Middle East Christian confab By Ray Hanania Last September, Middle East Christians were thrust into a spotlight they have long deserved when U.S. Senator Ted Cruz told a questionable Washington D.C. group ostensibly organized to “defend them” that if they didn’t support Israel then…

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My Imaginary Friend Is American

October 18, 2014October 18, 2014 rayhanania No Comments

My Imaginary Friend Is American By Yousef Khatib I met my American imaginary friend long time ago in Palestine. We have had mutual interests since childhood: music, movies, food, theatre, cartoon and crayons. Few years later, I started to think that he was just being orientalist so I started hanging out with British imaginary friends….

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Jordan King says he is committed to protecting Christian Arabs

October 17, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Jordan King says he is committed to protecting Christian Arabs AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday said that co-existence and fraternity among Muslims and Christians living in Jordan stand as a distinct model in the Middle East. He made his remarks at a meeting with a number of leaders of Christian denominations from…

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Notes of a dirty not-too-old man

October 17, 2014October 17, 2014 rayhanania No Comments

Notes of a dirty not-too-old man by Yousef Khatib Here I am, once again, ditching a pile of unfinished projects, texts, drawings and models and creating a new file and folder to overwhelm my morning with a random concept. Let’s hope I finish this one. Notes of a Dirty Not-Too-Man as opposed to Bukowski ‘s…

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Silly

October 16, 2014October 16, 2014 rayhanania No Comments

Silly By Yousef khatib It’s a silly thing how only drag queens smoke shisha in America. I mean, drag queen in Palestine smoke it too with other non drag queens. By the end of the day, no one wonders why their phones’ covers are crystalloids. He smokes it too and Alice does as well. So…

Being a Palestinian in America and Chicago?

October 16, 2014October 18, 2014 rayhanania No Comments

Being a Palestinian in America and Chicago By Yousef khatib Being a Palestinian in America and Chicago Being a Palestinian in America and Chicago? Being a Palestinian in America Being a Palestinian in Chicago Being a Palestinian in America Being a Palestinian in Chicago Being a Palestinian in America Being a Palestinian in Chicago Being…

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