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ysenia

Demands - Tahrir Documents - 0 views

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Egypt revolution tahrir documents

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  • ysenia on 21 Jan 16
     
    "Tahrir Documents is an ongoing effort to archive and translate activist papers from the 2011 Egyptian uprising and its aftermath. Materials are collected from demonstrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square and published in complete English translation alongside scans of the original documents."
mharcour

The Arab Summit's Two State Peace Plan - 1 views

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Israel Israeli-Palestinian conflict Palestine Two State Solution 1967 Lines

shared by mharcour on 28 Feb 15 - Cached
  • mharcour on 28 Feb 15
     
    In this Al-Bab translation, the details of the 2002 Arab Summit peace initiative for the Israel-Palestine conflict are outlined. Including borders based off of 1967 lines, and the right of protection, the plan was inspired by Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia.
mariebenavides

Bahia Shehab: A thousand times no - YouTube - 0 views

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  • mariebenavides on 14 Oct 14
     
    Egyptian art historian and graffiti artist, Bahia Shehab, discusses how she was first commissioned for an art piece in 2010 called "A Thousand Times No" that consisted of the way the word "no" had been represented in history over different continents in different art works. This later translated into her graffitiing the word all over Egypt as a way to speak out again the dictators and the violence that she witnessed.
mharcour

In Order to Free Jerusalem, Egypt Must be Freed - 0 views

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  • mharcour on 28 Jan 15
     
    An article from Tahrir Docs, this translation calls for the freeing of the Palestine state through the example of Egypt's own transformation.
mharcour

I am an Egyptian with the Intifada - 0 views

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Egypt palestine Camp David Accords Gas

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  • mharcour on 28 Jan 15
     
    A Tahrir Docs translation, this flyer outlines the Egyptian support for the freeing of Palestine as well as specific goals to obtain.
micklethwait

جيش مصر يأمر بإخلاء رفح لإقامة منطقة عازلة - 0 views

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  • micklethwait on 29 Oct 14
     
    You can run this through Google Translate if you're interested. It's an article about Egypt demolishing a band of homes along the border with Gaza at the city Rafah.
mcooka

Education in Jordan - general overview | Jordan Times - 0 views

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  • large majority of students attends public schools, often taught by poorly qualified teachers
  • Curricula, teaching and evaluation methods do not permit free dialogue or exploratory learning, and consequently do not open the doors to creative thinking and analysis.
  • “Imparting” knowledge is the dominant feature, which weakens the capacity to hold opposing or various viewpoints.
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  • n Jordan, there is an excessive use of lecturing and memorisation, with little emphasis on analysis of what is being memorised. It is well known that students in public schools are required to memorise endless facts and formulas from a dreary academic curriculum.
  • hile all new theories of language acquisition are based on meaningful communication through which students can acquire English as a second language without translation or focusing on grammatical principles and rules, “grammar translation method” is still the only popular method used in public schools and even at universities in Jordan.
  • Over the years, there has been much talk about reforming the education system in Jordan, but less action. Reform i
  • We need an education through which students are able to connect the facts they learn about to the real world, which helps them innovate, understand social responsibilities, ethics and values.
mcooka

Gender equality? It doesn't exist anywhere in the world - LA Times - 1 views

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  • t's been more than 100 years since the world began observing International Women's Day, and yet no country has achieved full gender equality.
  • But in Yemen, the country that ranks lowest according to the same data,
  • About two-thirds of countries in the developing world have achieved gender equality in primary education according to U.N. data, but the progress is less substantial at the secondary school level.
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  • In Africa and South Asia for example, boys remain 1.55 times more likely to complete secondary education than girls, according to World Bank data.
  • Even when girls make it into the classroom they still “continue to face particular risk in chaotic conflict settings,”
  • n Pakistan, for example, the Taliban has declared war on girls' education, and frequently attacks educational institutions
  • “They don’t translate into greater equality in the labor market,” said Sarah Gammage, director of gender, economic empowerment and livelihoods at the International Center for Research on Women. “Around the world women have disproportionately been part of the informal economy.”
  • hey are typically responsible for providing care services for family members, Gammage said. Other duties include child rearing, cooking, and other household chores. It is work for which they are not paid. Women perform three times more unpaid work than men, according to the U.N.’s 2015 Human Development Report.
  • eing able to make decisions, such as voting, owning land, and deciding whom to marry “is where we see the most significant difference between the least developed and developed countries,” said Varia.
  • In Saudi Arabia, women are not permitted to drive and cannot open bank accounts without their husbands' permissio
  • Uganda forbids women to gain permanent custody of children after a divorce,
  • Honor killings, the traditional practice that allows the slaying of a family member who is believed to have brought dishonor on a family, claims thousands of women’s lives every year in South and Central Asia.
  • pvaldez2 on 08 Mar 16
     
    This article is a response to International Women's Day, saying that gender equality doesn't exist in the world. In the middle of the article, they show a chart of the gender gap between men and women. Egypt is last in the chart.
  • mcooka on 08 Mar 16
     
    This article goes into depth about the inequality in the Middle East which extends to today. This looks at the ideas of democratization which would promote higher education. Greater rights for women. and improve infant morality rates 
mpatel5

Western media fraud in the Middle East - 0 views

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Western-media Middle East Revolution Biased-opinions Reporters

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  • mpatel5 on 11 Nov 14
     
    Most Western reporters covering the war in Iraq do not speak Arabic, so they are dependent on translators and various officials and getting opinions average people becomes challenging. Too often, you consumers of mainstream media are victims of a fraud. You think you can trust the articles you read - why wouldn't you?
ijones3

Guide to African Street Art - 0 views

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  • ijones3 on 13 Apr 15
     
    This was an interesting website because it not only showed around thirty pictures of Egyptian graffiti, but it also gave you the option to click on other countries to see what their artists were doing. I think that this is important to see how Egyptian artists ideas, symbols and meanings translated over to other African countries.
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