Adalah: Palestinians Protests Brutally Repressed
While protests erupt across the Middle East and North Africa (see the latest Tahrir Mothership and Liveblog for full details as well as weasel’s country by country roundup) protesters are meeting with...
View ArticleAdalah: Libya, Syria and Bahrain: Different responses to crisis.
The Arab uprisings of 2011 started out with a great deal of hope that old structures and institutions and mindsets were being cleared away and the revolutionaries have continued to struggle to ensure...
View ArticleAdalah: "They can never shut us up"
PalestineI’ve written before about the thousands of Palestinians who are held as political prisoners or prisoners of conscience in Israeli jails. On April 21st, Ahmad Qatamsheh joined the approximately...
View ArticleArab Protests: Repressing Uprisings in Yemen, Syria and Morocco
YemenPresident Saleh has left Yemen and is currently being treated in a Saudi hospital. Many observers feel that this is the end for Salih but all that is certain is that a power vacuum remains. The...
View ArticleReading Palestine
As an advocate of Palestinian rights, I read a lot of books about Palestine. The problem is, I rarely finish reading them. (It's not just when the topic is Palestine but right now my focus in terms of...
View ArticleMiddle East Roundup: Updated with shock Yemen Election results.
Below is a country-by-country round-up of events in the MENA regionBahrainBahrain has continued to repress protests in the capital Manama. Bahraini protesters requested international activists to help...
View ArticleEgypt: President Morsi killing the revolution to save the revolution?
Egypt’s President Morsi, flushed from international praise after brokering a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, granted himself and bodies dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood sweeping powers...
View ArticleLetters to Obama from Palestine
During Obama’s visit to Israel/Palestine, the President spent a very little time in Palestine, going to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and meeting with Palestinian President Abbas in...
View ArticleSyria – the armed opposition gets a little help from Israel
On Saturday, Israel bombed a Syrian military installation outside Damascus called Jamraya in Mt Qassioun, about 15 kms (10 miles) east of the border with Lebanon, in the mountains near Damascus. In...
View ArticleMohammed Assaf from Palestine - the next winner of Arab Idol?
The news out of the Middle East has been uniformly depressing recently so I'm giving myself a break with some news about the Arab Idol sensation Mohammed Assaf. He has become an instant star and...
View ArticleIdiotic Sen. McCain goes to Syria and meets with kidnappers
Lebanese television station Al-Jadeed has broken the story (in Arabic) that Senator McCain, in his recent jaunt to Syria, has met with rebels who were involved in the kidnapping of Lebanese Shiite...
View ArticleMohammad Assaf wins Arab Idol
Mohammad Assaf has won Arab Idol.I wrote about the Palestinian refugee from Gaza in an earlier diary.I think what makes him so special, and why he has galvanized the Arab world into supporting him, is,...
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