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Open Letter to Jared Kushner and all Americans who ‘drive drunk’

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 Eileen Fleming No Comments

Responding to Jared Kushner’s “Peace to Prosperity Economic Plan” is Sam Bahour’s “Open Letter To My Fellow American, Civil Servant Jared Kushner: From one American to another: Get out of the car. Go home” that follows this reminder from Jonathan Ben Artzi, a nephew to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who went to prison for 18 months for refusing to serve…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan

Census and (lack of) Sensibility in the way nation’s manipulate population data

June 19, 2019June 19, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Census and (lack of) Sensibility in the way nation’s manipulate population data Governments around the world manipulate their Census data on populations in order to undermine minority rights and strengthen government abuses against minorities. In the United States, the government has used the Census for decades as a means of suppressing the actual numbers of…

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Algeria: Hirak Act II

June 16, 2019June 16, 2019 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

Algeria: Hirak Act II The Hirakists persist in their demands for regime change, while the Military are pushing for the Constitutional order. By Abdennour Toumi Algeria’s “triangle of hope” could lead to the question the street, the Generals, and the Presidential Palace are asking: Will democracy in Algeria really be workable? According to classic political…

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UIC student goes to Morocco on State Department scholarship

May 29, 2019May 29, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

UIC student goes to Morocco on State Department scholarship University of Illinois at Chicago sophomore Luana Davila of Joliet has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic in Morocco this summer. Davila, who is a classics major and Arabic minor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and…

American Arabs, Features, mainstream, News, North Africa

Historical Fiction and Nakba

May 12, 2019June 12, 2019 Eileen Fleming No Comments

The 1948 Palestinian exodus, known as the Nakba (Arabic: النكبة‎, al-Nakbah, literally “disaster”, “catastrophe”, or “cataclysm”),occurred when more than half of the indigenous Palestinian population were driven from their homes between December 1947 through January 1949, resulting in the destruction of 600 Palestinian villages in the Holy Land. Historical fiction is a literary genre in which…

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Algeria: Freedom and Shakespeare

April 4, 2019April 4, 2019 Abdennour Toumi 2 Comments

Algeria: Freedom and Shakespeare The Street should be attentive in its exigent demands and comportment with the Army, usually the Military don’t like disorder or to be ordered. By Abdennour Toumi Former President Bouteflika and his siblings are finished finally, a political drama ending with the political death of its main character, a Machiavellian figure…

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Is the French Mass Media Democratizing the Press?

September 26, 2018September 26, 2018 Abdennour Toumi 1 Comment

Is the French Mass Media Democratizing the Press? The coverage of Mr. Zemmour vs. Ms. Hapsatou Sy has let victimization and guilty prevail over freedom of the press in France By Abdennour Toumi Burton Rascoe said, “A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life,…

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Christians should honor their close ties to Muslims this Ramadan

May 17, 2018April 13, 2019 rayhanania 2 Comments

Christians should honor their close ties to Muslims this Ramadan Sadly, tensions have increased between Christians and Muslims but the truth is the two peoples and their religions could not be closer. Muslims and Christians have always gotten along and defended each other. And these days both need to stand together in the face of…

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Inscribed in a Tablet Preserved

May 17, 2018May 17, 2018 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

Inscribed in a Tablet Preserved The voices of intolerance are interpreting the U.S. and French Constitutions like the fanatics and the dystopians are interpreting the Koran. By Abdennour Toumi The dreadful on-going geopolitical events in the Middle East coincide with the debut of Ramadhan (Ramadan), a month-long observance of fasting, doing good deeds, acting generously…

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Video: el-Sisi defends re-election in face of international criticism

April 5, 2018April 5, 2018 rayhanania 1 Comment

Video: el-Sisi defends re-election in face of international criticism Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi was re-elected to a second term as President of Egypt. The 6th elected President of Egypt, el-Sisi was elected to office in 2014 following a military coup he led that removed President Mohamed Morsi from office the previous year…

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Arab News launches 2020 vision, new identity at Arab Media Forum

April 4, 2018April 4, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Arab News launches 2020 vision, new identity at Arab Media Forum Newspaper and website to be “The Voice of a Changing Region”; Former editor Khaled Almaeena honored by chairman of SRMG. Middle East’s largest English Language newspaper launches ambitious plan to expand its audience reach Arab News has unveiled on April 4, 2018 a new identity…

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Dubai Press Club announces agenda for 17th Arab Media Forum

March 30, 2018March 30, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Dubai Press Club announces agenda for 17th Arab Media Forum Dubai Press Club (DPC) today (March 27, 2018) announced the agenda for the 17th edition of the Arab Media Forum (AMF), which will be held under the patronage of Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin…

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Mohammed bin Rashid breaks ground on world’s biggest Solar Power project

March 21, 2018September 25, 2018 rayhanania 1 Comment

Mohammed bin Rashid breaks ground on world’s biggest Solar Power project Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum broke ground on the 700MW fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, the biggest Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project in the…

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Sadeem launches largest digital competition in Arab World

March 14, 2018March 14, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Sadeem launches largest digital competition in Arab World The biggest digital competition and series in the Arab world, ‘Sadeem’ is now live. Sadeem’s audience will get to watch their 20 contestants from across the region go from zero to hero, through an exciting online reality series that will culminate in the crowning of the Arab…

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Arabs should suspend contacts with Israel until Israel recognizes Palestine

March 7, 2018March 7, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Arabs should suspend contacts with Israel until Israel recognizes Palestine The primary stumbling block to the establishment of a Palestine State and achieving Middle East peace is the weak leadership of the Arab World and their fear of standing up to Israel’s government extremism. Despite the Arab World’s public rhetoric and criticism of Israel’s government…

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Jordanian hate speech law could further stifle press freedoms

February 20, 2018August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Jordanian hate speech law could further stifle press freedoms By Ignacio Miguel Delgado Culebras CPJ Middle East and North Africa Correspondent Recently proposed amendments to Jordan’s 2015 cybercrime law, including a vague and broad definition of hate speech, will further stifle press freedom on the pretext of protecting the country’s citizens, and could result in further…

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Sudan targets newspapers, journalists with confiscations and draconian legislation

December 6, 2017December 6, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

Sudan targets newspapers, journalists with confiscations and draconian legislation New York, December 6, 2017—Sudanese authorities should stop confiscating newspapers and drop draft laws that would further curtail press freedom, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Over the past nine days, agents from Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) have confiscated all copies of…

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Algeria: Something Is Not Right Happened in Raïs

September 19, 2017September 19, 2017 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

Algeria: Something Is Not Right Happened in Raïs In Algeria politics is not local, but vocal, therefore the nights of horror of August and September, 1997, still haunt the dreams of the population. By Abdennour Toumi About 18 miles south of Algiers located in the countryside of the Municipality of Sidi-Moussa, a massacre took place…

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