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Faculty Petition on NYPD Failure of Leadership
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Updated: Over Four Hundred Faculty Nationwide Call for NYPD Commissioner’s Resignation Today, more than four hundred faculty from across the country wrote to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, adding theirs to a multitude of voices calling for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Deputy Commissioner Paul Brown to step down. A response to the NYPD’s over-reaching and indiscriminate surveillance of Muslim student associations along the Northeast seaboard, this is the ...
Keep Reading »"Why Don't We Dialogue?" Walk Out on IDF Presentation at UCLA (Video)
![[Image from UCLA Palestine Awareness Week Flier]](/content_images/3/sm_pawwalkout13.jpg "[Image from UCLA Palestine Awareness Week Flier]")
On Tuesday, 28 February 2012, Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA organized a Gaza memorial as part of its annual Palestine Awareness Week. In response, Bruins for Israel and StandWithUs invited IDF soldiers to campus to present a whitewashed version of the IDF's actions in Operation Cast Lead, the 2008-2009 assault on the Gaza Strip which resulted in over 1,400 casualties and, to date, no accountability for documented war crimes and possible crimes against humanity. ...
Keep Reading »House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East
![[Left: Cover of Shadid's new book. Right: Anthony Shadid. Image composite by Nada Bakri]](/content_images/3/sm_shadidbookthumbnail.jpg "[Left: Cover of Shadid's new book. Right: Anthony Shadid. Image composite by Nada Bakri]")
Anthony Shadid has been widely hailed as the best foreign correspondent of his generation. For Arab Americans, he was much more than that. How many times did we send one of Anthony's dispatches from Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, Libya or Syria to our friends so that they might ...
Keep Reading »Lecture on Arab Uprisings by Fawwaz Traboulsi at AUB's Issam Fares Institute
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As part of its Arab Uprisings Lecture Series, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs recently hosted Fawwaz Trabulsi. In his presentation, entitled: “Revolutions Also Topple Ideas: How the Uprisings Shattered the Prevailing Political Constructs of the Arab world,” Traboulsi critically reviewed how the uprisings have called into question the main concepts that have dominated intellectual production and public practices in the Arab ...
Keep Reading »In a Different Light (Nazareth, 16 February - 6 March 2012)
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The opening of ‘In a Different Light’, a photography exhibition by Katie Ramadan, will be at the Sudfeh Gallery-Restaurant in Nazareth on Thursday, February 16 2012, from 8-11pm. The exhibition includes thirty photographs broken into eight separate series. The aesthetic flow of the series, meaningful and exciting to the eye, includes explorations of the home, public spaces and individuality. Curated by Walid Mawed, the exhibition is sponsored by Sudfeh ...
Keep Reading »The Arab Uprisings One Year On: Voices from the Ground (Oxford, 29 February 2012)
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Oxford University and the Weidenfeld Scholars would like to invite you to the 2012 Weidenfeld Debates Conference. This year’s event will commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of the Arab Spring and will present 7 unique voices from the streets who witnessed and took part in the popular uprisings. Who? Tunisia - Yassine Ayari, cyber activist, Yemen - Atiaf AlWazir, Researcher, NGO consultant & blogger Syria - Joseph Daher, activist and author ...
Keep Reading »Bedoon Rights: An Online Reference on Statelessness in Kuwait
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Bedoon Rights is a network founded by stateless Kuwaiti advocate Mona Kareem putting together contributions by a number of stateless volunteers mostly based in Kuwait. The network is the only online reference in English devoted for the case of statelessness in Kuwai. It provides relevant official documents translated, reports made by international organizations, daily reporting, videos, photos, and it offers help to journalists, correspondents, and bloggers ...
Keep Reading »Palestine and the Uprisings: SOAS Palestine Society Annual Conference (London, 17 March 2012)
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Palestine and the Uprisings: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Palestine Society 8th Annual Conference 17 March | Brunei Gallery | SOAS – London Hosted by London Middle East Institute and the Centre for Palestine Studies (SOAS) Program 9:00 – 9:30: REGISTRATION 9:30 – 9:45: OPENING REMARKS Hassan Hakimian – London Middle East Institute 9:45 – 11:45: MAPPING FORCES CONFRONTING THE UPRISINGS Chair: Laleh Khalili ...
Keep Reading »Palestine Awareness Week at UCLA (Los Angeles, 27 February - 1 March, 2012)
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On Monday 27 February through Thursday 1 March, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) will be hosting a series of activites as part of the 2012 UCLA Palestine Awareness Week. For full program details, see flier below.
Keep Reading »Statement on Hunger Strike of Khader Adnan by Palestinian Human Rights Organizations
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[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organizations on 15 February 2011.] To: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights CC: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Khader Adnan at Risk of Death on 60th Day of Hunger Strike Urgent Call for Action 15 February 2012 As Palestinian organizations dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), we reiterate our ...
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