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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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Quelques secondes de glamour

May 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

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Cannes, quelques secondes de glamour
en direct de cannesUploaded by LeliaLeb. – Watch original web videos.
Meme les vitrines s’y mettent (ici celle de Valentino)
cannes vitrineUploaded by LeliaLeb. – Independent web videos.

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Personal · Travel · Uncategorized · cinema

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

Video de l’explosion, Beyrouth

January 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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Le lien pour la video disponible sur MSNBC
Les photos de Associated Press

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Tags: Photo · Politics · Video · War & Conflict

Macho, macho man

January 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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I don’t know if you watch Current TV, but I recommend you this ‘reportage’ from the portuguese journalist Mariana Van Zeller about the machismo (macho attitude) in Spain. Unfortunately, the situation is not very different in Portugal…

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Tags: Gender · Society · Video

“It’s about time, Lebanon…”

December 26th, 2007 · 4 Comments

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I couldn’t help it. I just had to post this video. I’m really sorry to permanently bring back the lebanese issues on this blog. But i guess it must be in my blood?
Anyway, i found this “chef-d’oeuvre” on Dailymotion. It’s already subtitled in [...]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Politics · Video · War & Conflict