Zahir Ebrahim – Response to John Kaminski’s ‘Why no Jewish writer can be believed’
Monday, March 1st, 2010In Ref To: John Kaminsiki "Why no Jewish Writer Can Be Believed" Hello John Kaminski, I read your article 'Why no Jewish writer can be believed' with much interest. You know, sometimes I feel like that about the Anglo Saxons. Often times, as history is evidence, especially vis a vis the East ...
Zahra Carla Pilavdzic – Personal Problems in a Privileged Society
Monday, March 1st, 2010WRITTEN BY ZAHRA CARLA PILAVDZIC (artwork by Carlos Latuff) So and so thinks she's too fat. She not only wants some liposuction but a nose job while she's at it. And if she could afford it, maybe some new boobs. She thinks then she'll be famous and people will love her. Another ...
Tariq Shadid – Palestine is full of heroes
Monday, March 1st, 2010Although people in our modern times have been educated to believe that having the 'right' ideas, methods or ideologies is what causes revolutions, history teaches us that drastic changes usually happen when the majority of the people rally behind a certain leader, more than behind an ideology. While Palestinian society ...
"UM-D Student government approves divestment resolution"
Saturday, February 27th, 2010Yusif Barakat, who was displaced from his Palestinian home as a child after Israel was established in the 1940s, speaks at a U-M Dearborn event Tuesday about a recent visit to Gaza, currently under siege by the Israeli military. As Barakat spoke, Student Government members in an adjacent room voted ...
Khalid Amayreh – No light ahead
Friday, February 26th, 2010Ghassan Khatib While the Palestinian Authority (PA) seems prone to agree to "indirect talks" with Israel without the latter undertaking any meaningful freeze of Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank, the Israeli government is making only provocations, rendering the resumption — let alone success — of peace talks more unlikely, ...
Doc Jazz: "Independence cannot be given to you"
Monday, February 22nd, 2010An interview with a Palestinian songwriter of political music Doc Jazz In December 2000, Doc Jazz released his first political song 'Intifada', which was listened to widely on the world wide web, and started his internet project 'The Musical Intifada'. Since that time, the collection of his self-written and -produced songs has ...
Al Haq vs The UK Secretary of State – BE THERE!
Saturday, February 20th, 2010WRITTEN BY MOHAMMED FEHMIDA This is an appeal to all those supporters of humanity, justice, equal rights and freedom. On the 25th February 2010, at the Court of Appeal, Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London, a hearing is going to take place of Al Haq vs The Secretary of state for ...
Fawaz A. Gerges – The Transformation of Hamas
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010From The Nation – WRITTEN BY FAWAZ A GERGES Something is stirring within the Hamas body politic, a moderating trend that, if nourished and engaged, could transform Palestinian politics and the Arab-Israeli peace process. There are unmistakable signs that the religiously based radical movement has subtly changed its uncompromising posture on ...
Sami Awad – Non-Violent Resistance
Monday, February 15th, 2010“Non-Violence is a powerful weapon that can and will weaken the iron fist of the Occupation” WRITTEN BY Sami Awad, Director of the Holy Land Trust What is Non-Violent Resistance? Non-Violence is an alternative to either armed resistance or passive acceptance of the status quo. It is both a strategy and a philosophy ...
