Tag Archives: Israel

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 20, 2012

Selective Outrage Media Lens, London, 18 January 2012 News that a fourth scientist in two years, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, had been assassinated in Iran by an unknown agency generated minimal outrage in the press. Patrick Cockburn notedin the Independent: ‘While … Continue reading →

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West Bank 2011: One year of Humiliation in a Two Minutes Video

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 14, 2012

It is a new year in the West Bank And on Christmas, a rainy and great wind swept over the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Trees bent and roofs rattled but the wind couldn’t carry away the suffering, vulnerability and the … Continue reading →

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Taking Beitar to task: Mohammed Ghadir

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 22, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Striker Mohammed Ghadir puts Israeli anti-racism to the test By James M. Dorsey Maccabi Haifa striker Mohammed Ghadir believes that he and Beitar Jerusalem, the bad boy of Israeli soccer, are a perfect match. “I am well … Continue reading →

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Children’s Art and Children’s Rights

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 29, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Published on Saturday, September 24, 2011 by CommonDreams.org by Claudia Lefko We’ve been here before, confronting this question of children’s art, and why it creates such a stir. I wrote about it in May 2006 when Brandeis … Continue reading →

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Tedx Ramallah

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 14, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Given the recent deaths of film makers Tareque Masud and Mishuk Munier, this powerful affirmation of the power of film can be an inspiration to us all And hip hop used as never before: Believe me this … Continue reading →

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Poems of war, peace, women, power

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 8, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Suheir Hammad I will not dance to your war drum. I will not lend my soul nor my bones to your war drum. I will not dance to your beating. I know that beat. It is … Continue reading →

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PART I THE END OF AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE ARAB WORLD?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 7, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews `Go, Mubarak go!’  USA’s tottering user-friendly tyrants… By Rahnuma Ahmed Having grown up amidst popular uprisings, such as the Civil Disobedience movement in 1969, and much later, having participated in mass uprisings, foremost among them, the one … Continue reading →

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Is there more to WikiLeaks than meets the eye?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 5, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed The release of US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks on 29 November—dubbed the “9/11 of world diplomacy” —was immediately criticised by America’s political and military leadership. WikiLeaks will cost (American) lives, said Bill Clinton.  Sarah … Continue reading →

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IDF soldier belly dancing

by Shahidul Alam Posted on October 5, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews YouTube clip shows IDF soldier belly-dancing beside bound Palestinian woman IDF orders immediate probe after Channel 10 airs clip on national TV. By Haaretz Service A video uploaded to YouTube shows an Israel Defense Forces soldier wriggling in … Continue reading →

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Flotilla Fabrication

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 27, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews “The average person believes implicitly that the photograph cannot falsify. Of course, you and I know that this unbounded faith in the integrity of the photograph is often rudely shaken, for, while photographs may not lie, liars … Continue reading →

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