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Women's Lens: Throw Away That Rusty Key
by Lyn Julius
Dear Maysoon,I was moved to read your piece commemorating the flight of your husband from a village near Jerusalem in 1948. He has kept the rusty iron key to his home. Yours was one of hundreds of articles in the global media, toge...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 9:36am -07:00T (188 words)
 
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Women's Lens: Seth Frantzman,"Zionism: Of the Jews, or For the Jews?"
*Zionism: Of the Jews, or For the Jews?* By: Seth J. Frantzman In February of last year, the president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, Rabbi Donniel Hartman, wrote, "In truth, we have no desire to share our country with them [the...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 9:36am -07:00T (1963 words)
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Women's Lens: Fwd: Le harcèlement sexuel, la onzième plaie d'Egypte
Image extraite du film «Les Femmes du bus 678», de Mohamed Diab. | © 2010 - New Century Production
Pharmacienne et romancière, Ghada Abdel Aal habite à Mahalla Al-Qobra, ville industrielle du delta égyptien. Pour se rendre au Caire, elle em...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 9:36am -07:00T (198 words)
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Women's Lens: The Grand Deception Excerpts
An extended sequence of excerpts from the 70-minute film produced by The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), "Jihad in America: The Grand Deception". This particular set of clips (almost 8 minutes in length, total) reflects key moments from the ...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 8:21am -07:00T (49 words)
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Women's Lens: Tel Aviv's mayoral race: Time for a Mizrahi candidate
The Mizrahi Jewish community is Israel’s largest ethnic group, and its historic links to the Middle East, along with its class position make it a critical component in any revolutionary coalition. Thus, running a Mizrahi candidate will be a clear sign t...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 7:51pm -07:00T (267 words)
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Women's Lens: Both Massad, and ‘Open Zion’, ignore the experience of Middle Eastern Jews
by David Shasha
The pro-Palestine blogosphere has been abuzz with the deletion of an article on Zionism by Columbia University professor Joseph Massad from the Al-Jazeerawebsite (you can read the Massad article here). What is interesting about the ...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 7:51pm -07:00T (253 words)
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Women's Lens: Time has stood still in the workshops of old Cairo
Mohamed Zaki sits behind the machine that he has been using for the past 50 years(Photo by Abdel-Rahman Sherief)
The winding, narrow streets of Old Cairo behind Khan El-Khalili have traditionally been bustling with an array of economic activi...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 7:51pm -07:00T (249 words)
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Women's Lens: The age-old tradition of West Bank soap-making
For the past millennium the Palestinian women had used the remains of olive oil for soap production. The local soaps of Nablus were already famous in the Middle East already in the 17 century. Today the local manufacturers hope that this excellent oli...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 6:36pm -07:00T (48 words)
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Women's Lens: Itzhak Perlman plays a tango by Carlos Gardel
sent by Jack Levi...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 6:36pm -07:00T (4 words)
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Women's Lens: Witness - Democracy Camp
In the summer of 2011, rebellion is in the air at a children's camp in Egypt. The film Democracy Camp centres on four teenagers in exploring the political and social awakening being experienced by millions of children across the Arab world....
Dateline: 2013-05-21 6:36pm -07:00T (41 words)
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Women's Lens: Israel to return settlement's land to Palestinian owners
JERUSALEM, May 19 (Xinhua) -- The state of Israel announced on court last week that it would return the lands of a settlement evacuated in 2005 back to its original Palestinian owners, local media reported on Sunday.
The announcement came after a p...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 7:21am -07:00T (133 words)
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Women's Lens: Russian Jews in Israel: Racist and War Mongers
By Uri AvneryThe Russians Came
WHEN THE huge immigration wave from the Soviet Union arrived in 1990, we were glad.First of all, because we believe that all immigration is a good thing for the country. This, I believe, is generally the case.Second, beca...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 8:06pm -07:00T (245 words)
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Women's Lens: Cartographie: quels sont les pays les plus racistes?
Deux chercheurs suédois ont mené une enquête pour mesurer le niveau de tolérance raciale de 80 pays dans le monde, en demandant aux habitants si cela les ennuierait qu’une personne d’une autre « race » ne devienne leur voisine. Max Fischer...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 8:06pm -07:00T (162 words)
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Women's Lens: Sectarian clashes in Alexandria leave one dead
People walk through debris outside a building that was burnt down during a night of sectarian clashes between Christians and Muslims in Al-Khusus, a poor area in Qalyubia governorate, north of Cairo on April 6, 2013(AFP File Photo)
A fight ...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 8:06pm -07:00T (123 words)
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Women's Lens: In ancient Egypt, summer was baby-making season
Courtesy of Lana Williams
Here, the burial site of a child found in an 1,800-year-old cemetery at the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt.
By Owen Jarus
The peak period for baby-making sex in ancient Egypt was in July and August, when the weather ...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 2:36pm -07:00T (116 words)
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