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مقابلة خاصة مع رئيس حزب الليبراليين والديمقراطيين في البرلمان الأوروبي غرانهام واتسون – إقبال التميمي

By Iqbal Tamimi • May 20th, 2009 • Category: Human Rights, Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

سنضع حداً لانتهاكات إسرائيل بوقف جميع الاتفاقات التقنية والعلمية معها
وعلينا تطوير سياسة خاصة بنا كاتحاد دول أوروبية منفصلة عن سياسات أمريكا فيما يتعلق بإسرائيل وفلسطين
تشلتنهام – إقبال التميمي

قال غرانهام واتسون رئيس حزب الديمقراطيين والليبراليين في الاتحاد الأوروبي يوم أمس أن مجموعته في البرلمان الأوروبي نجحت بالمطالبة بضرورة وقف أي اتفاقات علمية أو بحثية أو تقنية [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Joseph, the fifteen-month-old Palestinian Prisoner

By Iqbal Tamimi • May 10th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

The Palestinian prisoner Fatima Alziq is a mother of nine children one of them is baby Joseph. Her children are deprived of their right of meeting their mother and their baby brother Joseph who was born fifteen months ago inside the prison. Her children suffer a collective punishment like most Palestinian children. All children need [...]



An open letter to Caryl Churchill from a Palestinian Mother

By Iqbal Tamimi • May 3rd, 2009 • Category: Children's Corner, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Palestinian Mothers are thanking you for your great contributions to peace and understanding. We support your calls for common sense and reminding everybody of what we have in common of unconditional love for our children, we support your mission; your words healed some of our wounds. http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/video/2009/apr/25/seven-jewish-children-caryl-churchill
Allow me to join you.. And tell her that….

 

 
Tell [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Gaza artists deliver hope out of the womb of destruction

By Iqbal Tamimi • Apr 21st, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Culture and Heritage, Internet and Communication, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

Israel should realize by now that the Palestinian nation is indestructible. A nation that was born from the womb of a great civilization is hard to defeat regardless of the methods or the variety of arms used to attack them. Nothing ever will break their spirit. Israel keeps destroying and Palestinians keep rising up from [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – From a Saudi girl to USA President Obama ..please help

By Iqbal Tamimi • Apr 14th, 2009 • Category: Children's Corner, Education, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

One might think that the young girls in Saudi Arabia are not affected by what is happening in Gaza and other parts of Palestine, but this is not true, children in every part of the world are feeling the despair and pain of their peers. This lead 12 years old Judy Lu’ay Khashokji to write [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Women in Sport and Journalism: the first women's football team in Gaza played against the odds

By Iqbal Tamimi • Apr 8th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Children's Corner, Culture and Heritage, Ideas and Projects, Internet and Communication, Interviews, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Gaza is full of stories of brave women, under the Israeli caused rubble there are many stories of women with hopes and great expectations, pioneers in every field.
Being a Palestinian journalist in exile, there was no other way to interview my people and interact with my colleagues in Palestine but through the internet. I have [...]



Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan addresses the European Community in Oxford: Everyone should be aware that we are part of Europe, but we are Muslims as well

By Iqbal Tamimi • Apr 4th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY IQBAL TAMIMI Yesterday evening the Centre for Islamic Studies in Oxford hosted Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accompanied by his wife Amina, whom I consider as an icon of a Muslim woman that deserves all the respect and admiration for her continuous support for the Palestinian women and her courage and dedication to [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Google does not know that Arab and Palestinian Mothers Exist

By Iqbal Tamimi • Mar 19th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Children's Corner, Features, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

On the 21st of March the Arab world celebrates Mother’s Day. On this day also the length of the day becomes equal to the length of the night. Nature is sending us a hint of optimism that everything is possible and as much as we feel despair, there is an equal chance of hope.
I thought of researching [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Palestinian Women are Israel's Demographic Nightmare

By Iqbal Tamimi • Mar 5th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Children's Corner, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

 

No condolences to apartheid Israel….yes, it has killed 1,300 Palestinians in Gaza because its fears are of a demographic nature, its army never cared what age or gender it killed, Israel’s machine was harvesting Palestinians of all ages and sizes…young and old, disabled and healthy, pregnant women and young girls, the ones resisting the occupation [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Palestinian Women Photojournalists

By Iqbal Tamimi • Feb 23rd, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Biography, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, War, Zionism

Palestinian women photojournalists: from taking photos of holy places to documenting burned babies
 
The first woman photojournalist in the Arab world was the Palestinian Karimeh Abbud (1896-1955)  
 
Palestinian women started taking photographs of families and holy places, ceremonies and weddings, but ended up taking pictures of bodies of killed young children, shelled schools ruined homes, and [...]