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Child Detention Figures Remain High

By Iqbal Tamimi • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Documents, Education, Iqbal's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

the average number of Palestinian children held in Israeli detention in 2009 remains high, at 375 per month



Helping Palestinian Children Confront their Trauma of the Occupation

By Iqbal Tamimi • Sep 13th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Children's Corner, Culture and Heritage, Education, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

Child psychologists have found that art therapy works to enable children to show in nonverbal ways what they have experienced and to deal with traumatic events in their lives.



Iqbal Tamimi – Why would Rupert Murdoch want to buy a stake in Saudi Media?

By Iqbal Tamimi • Sep 5th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Internet and Communication, Iqbal's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

It seems that the Western media is after Arab media platforms, or are they only after the deep Arab pockets? People in the Middle East are still in a state of shock after last week’s Yahoo business venture of buying Maktoob.com, the only Arab internet portal based in Jordan.
Now the latest news is that Rupert [...]



Yahoo has to acknowledge Palestine should it want to flirt with our pockets

By Iqbal Tamimi • Sep 2nd, 2009 • Category: Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY IQBAL TAMIMI
One can't help but see malignant projects of gigantic companies committing forgery to steal the history of some nations in broad daylight.
As an example I would say Yahoo. For many years yahoo published pages on its websites and created online services where it has deleted Palestine from its charts, not just Palestine [...]



Palestinians and Tony Blair’s WAR-nings

By Iqbal Tamimi • Aug 28th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine

WRITTEN BY Iqbal Tamimi
 
Since Tony Blair was appointed as the international community’s Middle East envoy, he’s done nothing solid about Israel’s breaching of Palestinians’ human rights, all he has been doing is WARNING. I remember he used to be able to do more than that, he was even credited with having started a war on [...]



Video interview of Swedish Journalist who wrote about Israeli organ theft

By Iqbal Tamimi • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Video, Zionism

This video interview, in two parts, made by Morris Herman for the Palestinian Mothers Network (also viewable on http://www.palestinianmothers.com/video/2-palestinian-mothers and You Tube) asks the Swedish journalist about the article that currently is in the news, reporting on the claims made to the journalist from Palestinians about the belated return of their sons, maimed, killed and their organs [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Journalism in the dumps

By Iqbal Tamimi • Aug 17th, 2009 • Category: Arabian Coffee House, Ideas and Projects, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Mostafa, an unemployed Palestinian refugee from Albaqaa camp in Jordan, unfolds a crumbled page of an old magazine in an attempt to read the stale news dated three years ago. This routine ritual comes usually after eating his falafel meal that was wrapped with the page. This is the only way someone suffering from poverty like [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Abraham bought a cave, he did not buy Palestine

By Iqbal Tamimi • Aug 12th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Culture and Heritage, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

I have been reading an article by Robin-Yassin Kassab, entitled ‘A visit to Hebron’. Yassin Kassab is the author of ‘The Road from Damascus’. This time he was not writing about Damascus, he was writing about my home town Al-Khaleel, known to the Western world by the name of Hebron. In his article he describes [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Duraid Laham drinks the toast of his homeland in Gaza, but how drunk Palestinians should become?

By Iqbal Tamimi • Jul 26th, 2009 • Category: Arabian Coffee House, Culture and Heritage, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

To those who do not know what it means to welcome the Syrian - Lebanese – Arab icon Duraid Laham in Gaza, I will try to come as close as can be to the shadows of this gigantic human figure. Duraid was chosen as a Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations but long before that he was [...]



Bristol – Gaza Twinning Initiative

By Iqbal Tamimi • Jun 24th, 2009 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Newswire, Palestine

WRITTEN BY IQBAL TAMIMI
During my quest to help my journalist colleagues working in Gaza who are suffering all kinds of pressures, and in an attempt to twin between the media in Gaza and our city of Bristol I have found out few things that I want to share with other colleagues who want to offer [...]