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Chris Barwick joins Majority World
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Magnum Photos Sales Director joins MAJORITY WORLD™ London: (June 2011) MAJORITY WORLD™ today announced the appointment of Chris Barwick as Business Development Director. Chris previously held senior roles with industry heavyweights Getty Images and Corbis. Most recently … Continue reading
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Rahnuma asks: Who is foreign agent, Anu Muhammad or Tawfiq Elahi?
Subscribe to ShahidulNews DHAKA: Renowned writer, researcher and activist Rahnuma Ahmed asks who is a ‘foreign agent’, Anu Muhammad, member-secretary of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports, or Dr. Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, advisor to the … Continue reading
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THE END OF AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE ARAB WORLD?
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Mubarak’s Ignominious Departure and the Fear Factor by rahnuma ahmed Mubarak is gone! Egypt is free! Equally true is the fact that power has been assumed by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. That the 30 … Continue reading
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Tagged Arabs, dictatorship, Egypt revolution, Egypt-Israel peace treaty, Egyptian military, middle east, Mohammad El-Sayed Said, Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood, people's revolt, resistance, secularism in Egypt, state repression, USA
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Power from the barrel of a lens
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Satish Sharma Forget about the power that, according to Mao, flows from the Barrels of Guns! A lot more power actually flows through the matte black barrels of lenses. Camera lenses! And this is a power … Continue reading
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Pakistan Flood Appeal
Subscribe to ShahidulNews The floods raging through Pakistan at the moment have affected more people than the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, the 2006 Asian tsunami, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined. An urgent mail from Kanak Mani Dixit of Himal Magazine. … Continue reading
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Salt Water Tears
photography by Munem Wasif text by Francis Hodgson plus an exclusive audio interview about this project, plus another short interviewabout his evolving style as a photographer. Every ecosystem has its fragile balance. That much we have already learnt. Scientists routinely now seek … Continue reading
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The Other Shaheed Minar
By Saydia Gulrukh Sodork or Totteleng As our bus entered Khagrachari Sadar, the graffiti on the wall caught my eye. I don’t remember exactly the name of the school. It was a government high school. The main gate almost broken, … Continue reading
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The Mandela moment that changed South Africa
Nelson Mandela’s release from prison 20 years ago opened negotiations which finally ended the racist segregation of the apartheid system. The BBC’s diplomatic editor James Robbins, who was in Cape Town to report on the release, has been back to … Continue reading
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Horror and grief: a nation besieged
Text by Rahnuma Ahmed Photos by DrikNews BODIES of army officers had been found, they had been dumped in the sewage canals that lay underneath the BDR headquarters in Pilkhana. Two dead bodies had been the first ones to surface, … Continue reading
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Tagged Army, BDR, Border Defence Rifles, corruption, Dal Bhat, Home Ministry, killing, Military, mourning, Mutiny, uprising, vigil
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