March 2011 Blog Posts (101)

March is Women's History Month. It traces its history to International Women's Day celebrated on March 8 in the

 industrialized world since the 1900s. During the entire month -- and specifically on this day -- women are honored and their achievements are noted. It is also a time when issues of gender equality and…

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم …

LONDON - Libya's Moamer Gathafi suffered another blow Wednesday when his foreign minister flew into Britain telling

The bag of Gathafi's secrets

Libyan foreign minister, former spy chief, arrives in Britain and quits post.

 officials he no longer wanted to represent the…

The Syndicate of Journalists in Egypt, or EJS, a trade union with 7,000 or so members, recently announced on its

Egyptian journalists protesting on the steps of their Syndicate

By Iqbal…

The lighting rebel advance which drove back Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces over the weekend has stalled sixty miles from his birthplace of Sirte as it ran into stiffer opposition and fought chaotic organisation.

Rebel fighters…

The award-winning film chronicles the story of Dr. Al-Arian and his family during and after his Florida…

Mississippi was not exactly the graveyard of the human rights struggle between the successful implementation of the

By Earnest McBride

 “Mississippi Plan” in 1885 and Brown versus Board of Education in 1954, but it had become the world-wide symbol of racial segregation at its worst.Then came the Tougaloo Nine on March 27, 1961, followed two months later by the first…

Denial is supposedly the first sign of a problem. Swimming against the revolutionary current overtaking the Muslim

By James Gundun – Washington, D.C.

world, President Barack Obama has fought a dogged perception that U.S. foreign policy cannot focus on multiple areas, that he should have visited Cairo and sent his Secretary of State to Latin America. That his administration is simply overloaded.

The criticism echoed so…

'Now it is time to naturalize the flow of history,' wrote Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs (British

There must be a break with the past. (Aljazeera)…

Any act of violence, especially one against civilians, marks a profound failure of human imagination and causes a deep

 and abiding trauma for all involved. In mourning the nine lives lost in Gaza and the one life lost in Jerusalem this week, we reject the pattern of condemning the deaths of Israelis while ignoring the deaths of Palestinians. We do not discriminate. One life lost is one life too many--whether Palestinian or…