Arab women living in diaspora have hard questions to answer. Should they marry non-Arabs, non-Muslims or converts to Islam? Palestinian blogger Mona, who lives in Canada and blogs at Rebellious Arab Girl, opens a can of worms when she asks these questions in a post, which has attracted 162 comments so far. Mona writes: There […]
Syria’s Language Move Irks Businesses
Shop owners say requirement for Arabic signs called costly, unfair and pointless. By an IWPR-trained reporter (SB No. 71, 10-Aug-09) Twelve years after opening an electronics shop in Damascus, Khaled has been forced to change its name. In place of Roussil, a Kurdish word which means sun disc, he was made to pick an Arabic […]
Seraphine Film Captures An Artist’s Life In A Time Of Turmoil
Seraphine, a new in USA 2008 French film by Martin Provost, explores the brief moment in the spotlight and the long, troubled life of "naive" artist Seraphine Louis (1862-1942), known as Seraphine de Senlis. Seraphine lived and worked in the northern French town of Senlis as a housekeeper. She was devout and uneducated. Her materials were largely […]
Obama’s Ghana Speech Underwhelms
Congolese blogger Alex Engwete posts a French translation ofObama’s address to the Ghanaian parliament, given this Saturday during his first-ever visit as President. Two readers respond, each unimpressed by Obama’s speech. Wavre thinks Obama’s failure to recognize America’s past misdeeds in Africa or Africa’s contribution to the West’s success places his speech just a little above Sarkozy’s infamous […]
The silence of the Obama administration on the Bagua massacre in Peru helps impunity for Alan Garcia
It’s been a month since the June 5 massacre in Bagua where hundreds of Indigenous peoples were killed in the northern Amazon region of Peru. Let me repeat in case you didn’t read well: a month ago hundreds of Native peoples were massacred by the Peruvian government led by Alan Garcia, and part of the […]
“Picture Me” Sheds Light on the Dark Side of the Modeling World
American model Sara Ziff spent five years filming “Picture Me,” a documentary about the underbelly of the modeling world and the damage it can do to its young participants. From Film Project to Pioneering Exposé Sara Ziff began modeling at 14, before she had even reached puberty. But that didn’t stop the photographers she […]
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