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Why I Love Al Jazeera - 0 views

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Media Media War politics Aljazeerah

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  • mjumaia on 15 Apr 15
     
    The writer of this article loves Aljazeerah and explaining in this long article why he loves Aljazeerah. He thinks that Aljazeerah is stunning, exudes hustle, and covers the globe like no one else.
micklethwait

You Can't Understand How Beleaguered Kobani Is Until You See These Maps - 0 views

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maps Kobani Kobane ISIS Syria

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  • micklethwait on 07 Oct 14
     
    You guys know I love maps, right?
alarsso

Uncovering Syria (II): We Are All Baathists | Al Akhbar English - 0 views

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civil war Ba'ath middle east syria political party

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  • alarsso on 21 Apr 15
     
    This article discusses the influential role the Ba'ath Party has played in Syria's history. It also dives into how greatly integrated the ideology of this party is with everyday life of a Syrian - How children grow learning the ways of the party and "to love their leader"
nfyffe

Helly Luv- Risk it All - 1 views

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  • nfyffe on 21 Oct 14
     
    In the Risk it All music video's description box Helly Luv dedicates the song to Kurdistan: FINALLY AFTER SO MANY MONTHS CREATING THIS VIDEO IT'S FINALLY DONE TODAY!!!!! I COULD NOT BE MORE IN LOVE AND PROUD OF THIS VIDEO. FIGHTING FOR YOUR DREAMS AND RISKING EVERYTHING FOR WHAT YOU LOVE IS WHAT I BELIEVE IN. THIS VIDEO WAS INSPIRED BY MY STRONG BEAUTIFUL KURDISH PEOPLE. WHO NEVER STOP FIGHTING FOR OUR COUNTRY AND INDEPENDENCE. TOGETHER WE CAN FIGHT FOR THIS DREAM. TOGETHER WE CAN BECOME ONE. TOGETHER WE CAN RISK IT ALL. THANK U EVERYONE WHO WAS PART OF THIS FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, ESPECIALLY ALL THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE AND THE SYRIAN CAMP THAT MADE THIS VIDEO COME ALIVE. ALSO, GOLDEN SCREEN THAT CREATED THIS ART PIECE WITH ME. I AM TRULY CRYING TEARS OF JOY TODAY! LONG LIVE KURDISTAN!!!
agomez117

Censorship - 1 views

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  • agomez117 on 21 Nov 14
     
    I hate censorship. But I also love my life. My freedom, and my physical safety. These are the contradictions that any non-commercially minded artist has to carry with them into the boxing ring, if they find themselves wanting to create controversial taboo-busting work in the Arab world.
nicolet1189

Twitter, terror and free speech: Should Twitter block Islamic snuff videos? | The Econo... - 0 views

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ISIS free speech Social Media twitter censorship

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  • YouTube removed one version of the video, citing a violation of their policy on violent content. On Tuesday, Twitter announced a new policy that it would remove images and video of the deceased at the request of family member
  • g #ISISMediaBlackout
  • The logical incoherence of this statement aside, is disseminating offensive material the same thing as promoting it? It is conceivable that the video could incite potential terrorists and others harboring anti-American sentiments to copycat acts of violence. But it is equally true that content of this kind wakes people up t
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  • Should platforms like YouTube and Twitter really have the power to censor what content we can or cannot see? At least in America, the suppression of disturbing or offensive content, if it does not incite violence, is a direct violation of our principles of free speech. Especially in this instance, it seems deeply inappropriate to respond to authoritarianism with authoritarian action.
  • Others have argued that the video shouldn’t be shared because that’s what ISIS wants.
  • Does it matter what ISIS wants?
  • Part of ISIS’s aim is presumably to terrorise us remotely, but most people are just getting angry.
  • intentionality does not factor into censorship decisions anyway. 
  • Twitter is not television. No one is being forced to view the footage.
  • It’s completely understandable that family members don’t want footage of a loved one’s death to spread, but it’s not clear that that’s their decision to make.
  • It’s really not Twitter’s decision either—unless we want to grant tech giants the power to control public knowledge and discourse, a dangerous precedent indeed.
  • Its democratic power derives from the fact that it’s unedited; for better or for worse,
  • nicolet1189 on 10 Nov 14
     
    The author of this article strongly opposes Social Media companies, specifically Twitter censoring ISIS related materials on their website. The author argues it violates free speech and the democratic principles associated with the website, arguing censoring a beheading video would be a slippery slope for future content.
aromo0

Egypt's Trouble With Women - The New York Times - 2 views

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  • The first plane to cross the finish line was piloted by a 26-year-old woman named Lotfia El Nadi, Egypt’s first female aviator.
  • father had rejected the idea, but she did not despa
  • “I learned to fly because I love to be free.”
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  • hero and a national treasure in the eyes of Egyptians.
  • Women saw her as an inspiration in their struggle for equal rights
  • women followed her exam
  • Egyptian women made advances in equality throughout the period of the monarchy
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser, women continued to advance, achieving positions in universities, Parliament and the senior judiciary.
  • 22 Arab countries for discrimination in law, sexual harassment and the paucity of female political representation
  • women
  • Egypt’s tradition of moderate Islam recognized women’s rights and encouraged women to study and work.
  • woman’s job is to please her husband and provide offspring.
  • promote female genital mutilation
  • cover her body completely and may not study,
  • women started to wear the
  • cannot even leave the house without her husband’s permission.
  • control women’s sexuality.
  • Wahhabism has influenced all Islamic societies and movements, including Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.
  • until 2005 that sexual harassment became an organized form of retribution against Egyptian women
  • hijab
  • 83 percent of women interviewed had been subjected to sexual harassment at least once, and that 50 percent experienced it on a daily basis.
  • When ultraconservative doctrine dehumanizes women, reducing them to objects, it legitimizes acts of sexual aggression against them.
  • many Egyptian women still went without head scarves, wearing modern Western-style dress, yet incidents of sexual harassment were rare. Now, with the spread of the hijab, harassm
  • The security apparatus paid thugs, known as “beltagiya,” to gang up on a woman attending a demonstration, tear off her clothes and molest her.
  • Dec. 17, 201
  • Tahrir Square in Cairo, soldiers pulled a female protester’s clothes off and dragged her along the ground, stomping on her with their boots
  • victim of the attack became an icon for Egyptian women
  • mocked the victim, blaming her for not staying
  • in the home
  • During the revolution, millions of Egyptian women went out and bravely faced snipers’ bullets
  • rity.
  • President Mohamed Morsi’s later attempt to rewrite the Egyptian Constitution would also have removed the only female judge on the Supreme Constitutional Court.
  • They tried to overturn the law punishing doctors who carried out female genital mutilation, and refused to consider the marriage of minors as a form of human trafficking by claiming that Islam permitted a girl as young as 10 years old to be married.
  • The revolutionaries are fighting for equality
  • trying to strip women of their political and social rights and make them subject to men’s autho
  • 10 female members of Parliament out of a total of 508
  • epresents a future that no one can prevent.
  • diamond03 on 06 Oct 14
     
    This article discusses how women have been treated differently since the beginning of time. Things began to change once women began to stand up for themselves in protests. 
  • aromo0 on 05 Mar 16
     
    Egypt's tradition of was not initially oppressive. The 1973 war in the Middle East introduced Egyptians to Wahhabis values.
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