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News and stories from the Arab world, the Mediterranean and Europe, from the point of view of 20 women who met for the first time in November 2007, in Alexandria, Egypt

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Aîd el fitr de ines

October 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Ma petite fille le jour de l’Aid el fitr.

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Personal · Photo · Religion · Society

Aid el fitr moubarek

October 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Bonjour,
je présente mes voeux de l’aid el fitr a tous et a toutes
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Celebrating Eid

October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Eid Ul-Fitr marks the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan. It is celebrated by the happiness of everyone and family gatherings, but some cultural or traditional aspects turn it into a disaster.
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Tags: Religion · Society · traditions

Un rituel qui tue…

October 3rd, 2008 · 7 Comments

Un coup de balai et le tour est joué vous cesserez de fumer voire même de respirer ….Un couple de Malaisiens été battu à mort par ses proches dans le cadre d’un rituel censé les faire renoncer au tabagisme et soulager leurs maux.  Au cours de la conversation, la famille a évoqué les tentatives […]

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Tags: Religion · Society

Theatre exhibit for the Palestinian people

October 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Pictures I took at the Sunflower theatre in Beirut. This exhbit is based on true stories that were told to the author of the exhibit, so each one represents a real person, a true story while they were running away from Palestine, or stories they heard…

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Human Rights · Personal · Photo · Politics · Society · War & Conflict

Lebanon Jews Tap Diaspora to Rebuild Beirut’s Shelled Synagogue

September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Sept. 18 (Bloomberg.com)
In 1983, Isaac Arazi and his wife were caught in sectarian fighting during Lebanon’s warA Shiite Muslim militiaman helped the couple escape. Arazi, a leader of Lebanon’s tiny Jewish community, sees the incident as a lesson in the Arab country’s tradition of tolerance. Now he is trying to make use of that […]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · History · Human Rights · Photo · Politics · Religion · Society · War & Conflict

She is not Denise Pipitone

September 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Dna tests showed that the 30 year old Albanian woman was after all the mother of the 8 year old child in Kos.

On 24th of August, one little girl approached an Italian woman who was on holidays in the Aegean island of Kos.

The girl, who spoke Italian, tried to sell her a bracelet. When […]

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Tags: Society

Trains and Penises

September 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I have been made aware of two penises on trains recently. One on a train in England, and one on a train in Italy. I read about some of the experiences of women in Egypt on the BBC news site posted by SM last week, who had all been assaulted in the street. And it made […]

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Tags: Gender · Personal · Sexuality · Society · women

Leishmaniose à Zagora!

September 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments

La route est longue de rabat vers cette contrée aux frontières algériennes. Zagora, c’est pratiquement l’agora du temple saharien!! La bas, l’éden de la survie, c’est l’oasis et le tourisme des dunes de sables dorées aux éclats du rouge ocre du soleil couchant!!!
La population est très active dans la région. Plus de trois cent associations […]

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Tags: Society

2009, c’est parti !!!

September 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments

C’est la fin des vacances, les bourses des tunisiens sont presque vides et les pères de familles attrapent la fièvre d’inquiétude à la veille du mois de Ramadan (le mois de jeûne des Musulmans), un mois qui demande selon certaines familles des dépenses particulières suivie par la rentrée scolaire et universitaire et l’Aïd…. […]

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Tags: Economics · Politics · Religion · Society