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Egyptian Jews docu finally allowed for exhibition in Cairo. Many will...
“Let’s be honest, national security in Egypt has a paranoia…they themselves have this notion that I’m trying to fight in the movie, where every Jew is an Israeli Zionist spy who’s working against the...
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Our heritage… our cultural human DNA, being destroyed: Was Afghanistan, Iraq…...
The holiest Jewish site in Syria – the 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue in Damascus – has been looted and burned, and its roof blown off. The Syrian army and rebel forces have both blamed each other for...
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The day any beardie bans Belly Dancing in Cairo, I’ll be 150% sure that they...
“Belly dancing is one of the most fascinating styles of dance in Egypt. Cairo is known as the global capital of belly dancing. Following the increasing appearance of foreign belly dancers in Egypt’s...
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5 Arabic Books to Read ‘Before You Die’
tonosanchezreig:THERE ARE SOOOO MANY I HAVEN’T READ…. and I’m sure same applies to you, ppl out there!. At least I’m sure of smthg: If we, westerns had read a bit more of these books, there would be...
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The Art of Civil War – By Fernande van Tets | Foreign Policy
“What period it’s from is not important. I just care how much it’s worth,” says Abu Khader, a smuggler in Majdal Anjar, a small Lebanese town on the Lebanon-Syria border. Smuggling everything from...
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Educated anger: Egyptian Intellectuals are fairly protesting but their...
Secular intellectuals have to face Egypt’s new political reality. The ideological service intellectuals used to offer previous regimes is no longer needed. Consequently, the support previous...
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‘We Can Matter': Young Israeli Addresses Arab Idol Winner (I hope he could...
You are 23. I am turning 25 in two weeks. We are young, but we are no longer children. When I was fifteen, I read in an American book that “the mark of the immature man is that he wants to die for a...
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Eyes don’t see it…. heart does not feel it!
I’m shocked and supprised. I thought we were in a relatively safe place, where one could express one’s self. We wanted to raise questions about visual culture, between obedience and resistance. I had...
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21st Century Islamic (?) Inculture.
The cultural devastation of Mecca has radically transformed the city. Unlike Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, Mecca was never a great intellectual and cultural center of Islam. But it was always a...
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A young women’s call “To Our Countries”
A new occasion to let us all remember that change in Middle East will come invariably from women. Let them be these women singing in exile from Sweden or the brave fighting women of Kobane. Let this be...
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Mosul Eye: Straight from inside hell.
Destroying Mosul’s Heritage: We apologize for not updating the page. Like most Iraqis, we have been mourning the unbearable loss of our precious relics. Once again, many unrealistic voices have been...
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More Free Middle East historical images and data, anyone?
And what can you find here? * Audio collection materials including 200 shellac discs recorded in Bahrain, Kuwait and Iraq between 1920 and 1940. * 500 maps, charts and plans of the Persian Gulf and...
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A movie to remember why people dies crossing the Mediterranean to reach...
This road movie portrays the perilous journey of well-known intellectual Yassin al-Haj Saleh and young photographer Ziad Homsi through Syria, at a time when the country edges towards the brink. Yassin...
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From Diyarbikkir to Lalish: Walking in the Footsteps of Genocide
tonosanchezreig:“That evening, I found myself exhausted both physically and mentally. But there was one place I still had to visit, an old pedestrian bridge that I describe in my novel. I thought I...
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