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Posts Tagged ‘women’

Iqbal Tamimi – Alarabiya TV and its USA agenda of media manipulations

By Iqbal Tamimi • Feb 2nd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

The latest of Al Arabiya TV series of betrayals to the ethics of journalism and another move of manipulations of the media came today with a report it has published on its news website.

Al Arabiya claims that Palestinian Mothers are requesting NOT to broadcast images of children killed in Gaza because it causes fear and [...]

falastin quote

By Mary Rizzo • Sep 14th, 2008 • Category: Falastin, Photos

Given the gendered socio-economic structure, house demolitions inordinately impacts women, for the home is where women most acutely invest their time, build their safety nets, advance their talents and hobbies, carry on their work of looking after the family, and carrying on with their life responsibilities. Once the home is destroyed, women are left with [...]

Falastin quote

By Mary Rizzo • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Falastin, Quotes

I cannot completely understand Palestinian women or their suffering. I don't know how I would have survived such humiliation, such disrespect from the whole world. All I know is that the voice of mothers has been suffocated for too long in this war-stricken planet. . . . This I know and it [...]

Iqbal Tamimi – "Get-the-BLOG outta here." Obstacles facing women journalists

By Iqbal Tamimi • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Internet and Communication, Opinions and Letters, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

I have been asked many times why I switched to blogging after slaving for many years in journalism in the Middle East.
Many obstacles face women journalists in the Middle East, but on top of the list comes dedicated male efforts to exclude females from acquiring serious decision-making positions like that of Editor-in-Chief. Some still can’t [...]