A powerful photographic exhibition took place recently at La Boca del Lobo, a cultural center in the Lavapies neighborhood of Madrid. Titled Mirando a Palestina: Proyecciones Fotograficas (Looking towards Palestine: Photographic Projections), the one-week exhibit brought together a diverse group of photographers from Spain, Finland, U.S., Canada, and last but not least, Palestine.The exhibition provided […]
The other day I read a post written by our friend Hind Sabanekh about her need to buy a new Trumpet. After exchanging some comments, I was shocked to realize the fact that music students in Jordan are required to buy instruments (professional ones) and are expected to simply get these instruments no matter how […]
Verspätungen, Überbuchungen, Annullierungen. Was Fluggäste schon immer ärgert, wird jetzt kundenfreundlicher geregelt. Künftig müssen die EU-Airlines für selbst verschuldete Probleme pauschale Entschädigungen zahlen. Die Neuregelung der Fluggastrechte innerhalb der EU tritt am 17. Februar in Kraft.“Es ist eine erhebliche Verbesserung für die Verbraucher, die jetzt keinen konkreten wirtschaftlichen Schaden mehr nachweisen müssen, sondern pauschal entschädigt […]
As if the illegal separation wall is not enough, as if sniper towers that are given the green light to kill any Palestinian no matter how old they were and what they’re doing are not enough, as if Israeli checkpoints implanted everywhere are not already enough, Israel still needs more security procedures to protect their […]
After years of delays, the Kyoto global warming pact is now in effect, requiring dozens of industrial nations to reduce emissions of “greenhouse” gases believed linked to climate change.The agreement, negotiated in the Japanese city of Kyoto in 1997 and ratified by 140 nations, calls on 35 industrialized countries to rein in the release of […]
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The weather has been really “unfriendly” this winter. It’s been so cold and the wind seems to be pretty strong to blow a whole ship into the beaches of Hergla (a place close to Sousse), as the picture of the stranded ship above shows. I got the picture from our friend […]
Israeli occupation soldiers have shot and killed a Palestinian boy in downtown Hebron, alleging that he tried to attack soldiers with a sharp object.Palestinian witnesses dispute the claim, testifying that soldiers stationed outside al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron’s Old Quarter murdered 13-year-old Sabri Fayiz Rajub in cold blood.“The soldiers were shouting at the boy, and then […]
Christian Henderson wrote: Analysts were reluctant to point fingers after the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri in Beirut, saying there were many parties who had an interest in killing him and stirring tensions in Lebanon.Commentators said Syria would most likely be blamed for the killing, but many of them wondered what Damascus stood […]
It’s so damn cold outside, extremely windy, raining like crazy, and the great part is: I DON’T HAVE MY UMBRELLA, neither a hat, nor a big scarf to protect myself from turning into a water-sponge! How would I know! The weather was amazingly beautiful in the weekend! AH! I don’t want to get sick […]
A massive car bomb killed Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri on Beirut’s waterfront Monday, witnesses and security sources said. At least eight others, some of them his bodyguards, also died. Hariri’s motorcade was blown up as it passed along an exclusive section of the city’s waterfront Corniche. It appeared to be the biggest bomb […]
