What Jews fail to understand is that Arabs don’t deny the fact that Jews suffered and were discriminated against, we don’t claim they’re making up the terrible Holocaust, and we certainly don’t feel pleased or happy that they had to go through what they went through, we just want them to know that Arabs had [...]
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter. Going to bed at night having done something wonderful – that matters.” -Steve Jobs Goodbye to the designer of future, the irreplaceable mind that created nothing but genius change. Goodbye Steve Jobs. All about Steve Jobs.com
“My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.” – Edward Said Yesterday marked the 8th anniversary of the passing of Edward Said, the Palestinian literary theorist, the esteemed University Professor [...]
Today history was made, today a new lesson was taught, a lesson to all humanity about the value of freedom of speech, the fulfillment of justice, and the right to oppose ‘the other’: no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, no matter how peaceful you’re doing it, if you ever protest [...]
Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan on how Americans and Middle Easterners can move past a decade scarred by 9/11 and the subsequent “war on terror” to embrace the new spirit of cooperation embodied by the Arab Spring: “Over the past ten years, much has been written in an attempt to make sense of [...]
Ok ladies and gents, mark your calendars and get ready for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF), it’s going to take place between Sept.30- Oct.7, 2011. The festival program for 2011 is now live! The TPFF is a non-profit organization which started back in 2008 as a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba. Dedicated [...]
Freedom OneWorld… Freedom For Palestine
القصة القصيرة “تجاعيد زهرة” للكاتبة منية أبو خضرا، تفوز بالمركز الأوّل
As all of us have seen, how TV channels have been showing Pro-Mubarak protests through the whole country, trying to show an opposite stand to the anti-Mubarak protests. What the world needs to know, is that those are stupid thugs who are paid to do this nonsense, just to manipulate media and to win more [...]
اقشعرّ بدني حين شاهدت الشعب المصري يُدهَس بسيارات الشرطة، ويُرَشّ برشّاشات المياه وهو يؤدي الصلاة، ويُقذَف بالقنابل المسيلة للدموع جوّا، وكأنّه استعمار، احتلال يهاجم ضحيّته، وليس شرطة تتعامل مع شعب هي منه وفيه، من المفروض أن تكون حاميته وحافظة أمنه. والله دمعت عيني حين رأيت الرجال وهي تجري لتقف بجانب بعضها لتنضم إلى صفوف المصلّين [...]
