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‘Real Lives’ and Symbolic Identities: some stories from rural Ghana

March 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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This montage gives hints of local stories, situations and symbolisms that I picked up during my time at a community radio station in a town called Ada, Ghana. The audio montage includes a range of voices, from University lecturer, midwife and the local [...]

 
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Tags: Agriculture · Community Development · Education · Gender · Health · Human Rights · Society

Egyptian women survive community hazards!

March 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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“Bedour, did you have to die for some light to shine in the dark minds? Did you have to pay with your dear life a price … for doctors and clerics to learn that the right religion doesn’t cut children’s organs.”  Nawal El-Saadawi
Lives saved [...]

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Tags: Community Development · Education · Gender · Health · Human Rights · Politics · Religion · Sexuality · Society · Youth · women

Fierté féminine…

March 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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Médecins, Architectes, journalistes, écrivaines, Artistes, enseignantes, juges, ministres et même ambassadrices… La femme tunisienne à bel est bien réussi à s’intégrer dans la société en tant qu’un partenaire actif à l’homme sur le plan social, économique et politique.
Un Cas presque unique dans le monde [...]

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Tags: Community Development · Education · History · Human Rights · Politics · Religion

They called it “the aparthate” video

February 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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In South Africa shock and repugnance has sparked a video of white university students feeding black campus cleaners a soup, in which they had first urinated.
The video shows one student urinating into a container of soup, placed on a toilet seat at the University of [...]

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Tags: Education · Gender · Human Rights · Society · Video

Des arbres centenaires massacres… a 100 m. de chez moi

February 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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J’ecris ce poste pour dire que les Libanais deviennent de moins en moins civilises, de plus en plus inconscients des ressources de leur pays, de plus en plus indifferents par rapport a leur patrimoine, a leur histoire.
Dans la rue qui mene vers chez moi, il [...]

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Tags: Education · Environment · Personal · Photo

Amour et Sexe de nos aïeules !!

February 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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Il ne vient pas de paraître mais je viens de le découvrir. C’est un recueil d’un ensemble d’articles de femmes de la méditerranée réunies lors d’un colloque à Tabarka en 1992….
Ça date de plus de 15 ans, et vous vous êtes certainement poser la question, [...]

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Tags: Community Development · Education · History · Human Rights · Religion · Sexuality · Society

Le saint valentin!?

February 9th, 2008 · 6 Comments

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                                        (dessin de Chaunu)
 Je suis en voiture et j’ai branché mon poste radio sur les ondes d’une radio tunisienne. Une annonce d’offre de dédicaces sur les ondes de cette chaîne est transmise…jusque là les choses se passent normalement. Mais ces dédicaces sont bien spéciales, les [...]

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Tags: Education · Religion · Society · Youth

Cet autre visage du voile.

January 4th, 2008 · 11 Comments

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Nora Hassan et Nessma Herki, deux jeunes égyptiennes âgées respectivement de 26 et 23 ans, portent fièrement leur voile. Un voile qui les encourage à contribuer positivement dans leur société en lançant leur projet culturel « Zen ».
Reportage.
Il est 11 heures du matin, il fait [...]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Community Development · Education · Fashion · Gender · Human Rights · Photo · Religion · Society

A Year in Photos

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

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Amongst all the ‘2007 in Photos’ features around at this time of year, and since looking at the Unicef photos posted by MP, I’ve been reading about an organisation called Kids With Cameras. What interests me with this and the British organisation Photovoice is that [...]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Community Development · Education · Environment · Health · Human Rights · Photo · Society · Travel · Youth

From the streets to the classroom

December 13th, 2007 · No Comments

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A group of egyptian girls during gym time and with their arts project teacher in a shelter. The girls that are taken in to the shelter are often children of Egypt’s rural poor or from families living in shantytowns on the outskirts of Cairo. They may sleep on [...]

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Tags: Community Development · Education · Gender · Human Rights · Society