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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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A great popular american song 4 Gaza: We will not go down. Listen to it!

January 20th, 2009 · 4 Comments

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Michael Heart, an american singer and songwriter has resently didacated a very distinguished song for Gaza: We will not go down.

He wrote in his website that his “original intention to donate proceeds from the sale of the MP3 to charity has been complicated [...]

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Tags: Human Rights · Mediterranean · Politics · War & Conflict · music

the link to vote 4 GazavsIsrael is functionning…but censure exists on comments!

January 8th, 2009 · 9 Comments

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Thank you for being so many to respond to the call to vote for GAZA. The CNN website is functionning, you just have to press on the flag you choose to vote for, then enter ur email, then a code, and finally submit. You can [...]

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Tags: War & Conflict

Palestinian factions fire rockets from south Lebanon, Israel fires back

January 8th, 2009 · No Comments

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Early this morning, a palestinian faction known as FPLP-CG, and whose commandment is based in Damascus, fired three rockets from a southern village in Lebanon, between Naquoura and Bint Jbeil. Israel didn’t wait long before firing back.
The government in Lebanon as well as Hezbollah agree [...]

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Tags: War & Conflict

Is Gilad Shalit alive?

December 29th, 2008 · 8 Comments

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According to a Hamas website cited by the Naharnet lebanese website, “Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who is held captive by Hamas, was injured during Israeli raids on Gaza”
This could mean that the kidnapped israeli soldier is still alive, and that Hamas will probably use him [...]

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Tags: Politics · War & Conflict

Trapped for 30 seconds among the fragmentation bombs

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments

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The morning of the 12th of August, I had spoken with my friend Filios Stangos, a journalist in the Greek ERT. He was heading to Gori, to cover the war in Georgia. A few minutes later, he called me, terrified, shouting that he and his TV crew were under attack. I felt [...]

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Tags: War & Conflict

Blind Attack on Georgian city of Gori

August 12th, 2008 · No Comments

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Filios Stangos, Greek ERT’s journalist in Georgia, was the eye-witness of a Russian attack in the centre of Gory. This is his testimony. «We were in the centre of Gori, in the central square, near the town hall. The city was completely empty when Russian [...]

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Tags: War & Conflict