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Posts Tagged ‘Syria’

Iqbal Tamimi – Arabic Drama, politics and Palestine at Ramadan

By Mary Rizzo • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Features, Iqbal's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies

Ramadan in the Arab World is connected with many things in my memory, but most of all the relationship that is growing even stronger between the people and their television sets.
As we used to fast when we were young, we did not think a great deal of the deep meanings of fasting, we only felt [...]

Sami Jamil Jadallah – Sabra and Shatilla, Time to Bring the Guilty to Trial

By Sami Jamil Jadallah • Nov 16th, 2008 • Category: Middle East Issues, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, War

Perhaps it it time to bring criminal and civil charges against the PLO, USA, Syria and Lebanese Forces for the massacres in Lebanon.
By Sami Jamil Jadallah
As was expected, the Palestinian leadership sitting in Ramallah and around the world did not make a mention of or remembers the massacre of some 5,000 Palestinians civilians massacred in [...]

UN Incites Israel and Europe Against Syria

By Kawther Salam • Jun 19th, 2008 • Category: Middle East Issues, Newswire

Is it permissible for UN officials to express their partiality with Israel against Syria, or to incite one side of the Arab-Israeli conflict against the other? Was Terje Rød-Larsen expressing his personal opinion on this, or was he stating the official position of the UN ?
Terje Rød-Larsen, a.k.a. "Terry Larson", the special envoy of the [...]