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Statement of the Arab and Middle East Journalists Association in Reference to Newseum Scandal
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The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA) condemns in the strongest possible terms, the decision of the Newseum to exclude Palestinian journalists Mahmoud al-Kumi and Hussam Salama from its memorial of journalists killed in the line of duty. Israeli missiles fired at a car clearly marked “TV” during Israel’s attack on Gaza in November, 2012, killing Messieurs Al-Kumi and Salama as they returned from covering a story for TV station Al-Aqsa at Al-Shifaa ...
Keep Reading »From Yarmouk to Sabra-Shatila: The Guardian's Martin Chulov on Palestinian Refugees Fleeing Syria
![[Children enter Lebanon with their families at the Masnaa border crossing. Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AP]](/content_images/3/sm_Children-cross-into-Leban-008.jpg "[Children enter Lebanon with their families at the Masnaa border crossing. Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AP]")
Following the recent bombing of Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, over 2000 Palestinian residents of the camp have arrived in Lebanon, and the figures are expected to grow in the coming days. The Guardian’s Middle East correspondent, Martin Chulov, spoke with Malihe Razazan about the plight of the Palestinian refugees who have made it to Lebanon. Chulov talked to many of the Palestinas who fled Syria and are now taking refuge in the Sabra-Shatila refugee camp in ...
Keep Reading »Regional and International Players in Syria's Civil War, The Protest Movement In Bahrain: Interviews with Bassam Haddad and Toby Jones
![[Anti-government protesters in Bahrain chant against the police on April 19, 2012. Hasan Jamali/AP]](/content_images/3/sm_Bahrain_Protests_April.jpg "[Anti-government protesters in Bahrain chant against the police on April 19, 2012. Hasan Jamali/AP]")
On Monday, 17 December, during a mass protest in Bahrain, twenty-five people were arrested, among them prominent human rights activist Yousef al-Muhafedha, who is the acting head of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights. 17 December is recognized unofficially as Martyrs' Day in Bahrain. On that fateful day, in 1994, two young men, Hani Khamis and Hani Al Wasti, were shot and killed during protests demanding the re-instatement of the 1973 Constitution and the release of ...
Keep Reading »On Gaza: Interviews with Sherine Tadros and Mouin Rabbani, and A Reading by Sinan Antoon
![[Joint Hamas and Islamic Jihad press conference after announcement of cease-fire. Seated left to right: Ramadan Shallah of Islamic Jihad and Khalid Mish'al of Hamas. Image by lodgaard via Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_8207769783_67c64cb489.jpg "[Joint Hamas and Islamic Jihad press conference after announcement of cease-fire. Seated left to right: Ramadan Shallah of Islamic Jihad and Khalid Mish'al of Hamas. Image by lodgaard via Flickr]")
The latest Israeli assault on Gaza has received ample coverage during the past week in the international media. In a special edition of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, three guests deepen our understanding of the recent onslaught beyond the reality of Israel's brutal aggression. First, whose narrative does this media convey and why? Malihe Razazan poses this question to Al Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros, who was one of a handful of journalists covering the ...
Keep Reading »Currency Crisis in Iran; Copts in Egypt
![Iran Currency [photo posted on flickr by Dieter Zernig]](/content_images/3/sm_6266145994_c8f0ab67e2.jpg "Iran Currency [photo posted on flickr by Dieter Zernig]")
It is no secret that the lives of ordinary Iranians, the wage earners and the poor, have been adversely affected in recent months by the soaring prices of staple goods. The country is now facing a currency crisis, as the Rial has plunged by nearly 60 percent over the past three months. Popular disaffection with the worsening economic conditions has even led to a rare eruption of protests and merchant strikes in the capital. What are the reasons for the collapse of the Rial ...
Keep Reading »Labor Strikes in Egypt; Iran Tribunal in London
![[Families visiting unmarked graves in Khavaran]](/content_images/3/sm_Khavaran-cemetery.jpg "[Families visiting unmarked graves in Khavaran]")
For the past week, the world's attention has been focused on the protests in front of US embassies in Muslim majority countries. There has been special attention devoted to the protests in front of the American embassy in Cairo. However, Egyptians were gearing up for a different kinds of protest! Egyptian journalist and activist Hossam El-Hamalawy speaks about the recent wave of labour strikes in Egypt. Nancy Hormeshea, a human rights lawyer, discusses the Iran ...
Keep Reading »About the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Tehran: An Interview with Mansour Farhang
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Iran was host to the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) on 26-31 August 2012. In order to hold this gathering, the Iranian government spent a reported sum of six hundred million dollars. Tehran, a mega city of twelve million, was practically shut down for five days; a massive force of 110,000 people took over the security of the conference; 360 checkpoints were established in the city; and residents were encouraged to leave the city. The state propaganda ...
Keep Reading »Crisis in the Gulf and Oriental Architecture in the U.S.: Interviews with Toby Jones and Phil Pasquini
![[image from the book, Domes, Arches and Minarets by photographer Phil Pasquini]](/content_images/3/sm_shapeimage_6.png "[image from the book, Domes, Arches and Minarets by photographer Phil Pasquini]")
In the fall issue of Middle East Report, Professor Toby Jones discusses the impact of revolutionary fervor in the Middle East and North Africa on the Persian Gulf Monarchies. In his article, "Embracing Crisis in the Gulf," he notes, “Typically concerned to hide unrest from view, out of fear of seeming weak or unpopular, the Gulf monarchies now seem disinterested in masking their violent response. In part, the states have lost control; activists can broadcast ...
Keep Reading »Mona El-Ghobashy on Egyptian Election and its Aftermath; Sinan Antoon Reads Mahmoud Darwish
![[Presidential standoff continues in Egypt. Image from Egypt Independent]](/content_images/3/sm_untitled-1_copy.jpg.crop_display.jpg "[Presidential standoff continues in Egypt. Image from Egypt Independent]")
Last Sunday, soon after polls closed in Egypt’s presidential run off election, the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF) issued a set of constitutional amendments, which has been met with nationwide protests. The Egyptian daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm captured the essence of the SCAF’s latest decree with the headline “The military hands power to the military,” so what’s in store for the future of Egypt? And how can different political and social forces ...
Keep Reading »The Guardian's Martin Chulov Discusses Reporting on Syria
![[Lebanese activists and journalists at a protest on April 11, 2011 against the killing of Lebanese Al-Jadeed TV's cameraman Ali Shaaban at he hands of Syrian troops. Image from The Daily Star]](/content_images/3/sm_63311_mainimg.jpg "[Lebanese activists and journalists at a protest on April 11, 2011 against the killing of Lebanese Al-Jadeed TV's cameraman Ali Shaaban at he hands of Syrian troops. Image from The Daily Star]")
With Syria grabbing all the news attention, and journalists being virtually barred from entering the country, how can we decipher fact from propaganda? There is no shortage of information and analysis about what is unfolding in Syria. With foreign journalists shut out, much of the news comes from citizen journalists' accounts, YouTube videos sent to media channels or websites in addition to various official narratives from governments across the world, in favor or against ...
Keep Reading »Bio
Malihe Razazan is producer and cohost of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on KPFA Radio in Berkeley. She is also a producer and guest host of Your Call, a daily public affairs program on KALW, local public radio station in San Francisco and a member of The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA). Malihe is the Co-Editor for Jadaliyya's Media page and host of weekly program "Media on the Margins."
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