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in title, tags, annotations or urlTunisia blogger gets 6 months for defaming army - Yahoo News - 0 views
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Tunisian military appeals court jailed blogger Yassine Ayari for 6 months for defaming the army. He was prosecuted over blogs he had written alleging financial abuses by army officers and defence ministry officials in a case. Ayari has alleged that he is being punished for blogs he wrote while out of the country. His family and supporters charge that his prosecution is a violation of newfound freedom of expression, which was one of the main gains of the revolution.
How is power transferred within the '1952 family'? - Daily News Egypt - 1 views
Twitter, terror and free speech: Should Twitter block Islamic snuff videos? | The Economist - 0 views
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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
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g #ISISMediaBlackout
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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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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.
I watched Libya seize its freedom. Now I have to flee its new chaos | World news | The Guardian - 0 views
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the first democratically elected parliament, the General National Congress, rather than disband the militias, funded them, each faction seeing its own forces as insurance against those of everyone else.
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An Islamist-led coalition came to dominate parliament, but as the squabbling grew worse it realised it would lose an election, so delayed having one.
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Then, in May, a former Gaddafi-era general turned rebel leader, Khalifa Hiftar, launched an offensive against Islamist brigades in the east while his allies stormed congress in Tripoli. An election was duly called in June, and the Islamists duly lost, or expect to lose when parliament assembles this week. The result has seen some of their militias grab what Tripoli real estate they can, triggering civil war.
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This article illuminates the aftermath of Gaddafi's reign from a first person perspective of a citizen fleeing the country due to its devastating chaos. He offers a short version of the conflict and the rise in militant groups. The root of the issue is the fact that when the GNC took power, the factions funded the militant groups for their own insurance rather than working towards their disbandment. The Islamist coalition dominated parliament, and as chaos deepened when they realized they would loose the election so they just delayed having one. This is where General Khalifa Haftar chimed in, launching his offense against islamic insurgency by storming the capitol in Tripoli leading the country to slip into civil war. The Author says "We are like a class of kids where the bad teacher is suddenly dead," he said. "Now we all fight each other." When the light finally comes to a country that was for so long in the dark, its blinding.
3 Survivors Reveal the Brutal Reality of Female Genital Mutilation - 0 views
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3 Survivors Reveal the Brutal Reality of Female Genital Mutilation
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According to the AHA Foundation, up to 228,000 girls and women in the U.S. are vulnerable to what's called "vacation cutting," when parents send their daughters to stay with their families abroad and to endure female genital mutilation (FGM)
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they make themselves invisible
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Sabrina Jalees' dad made huge sacrifice when she came out to him - 0 views
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A Muslim father has supported his gay daughter in a way that she never thought he would, turning his back on his entire family who refuse to accept her. Sabrina Jalees had been reluctant to come out to her Pakistani dad, Sayed, unsure of how he would react. This is a really interesting topi considering just how harsh Muslim teachings have been in the past when it came to handling homosexuality or any for of "immodesty." Also highlights the fact that Muslims are totally capable of choosing family over religion regardless of the stereotypes.
We dream about drones, said 13-year-old Yemeni before his death in a CIA strike | World news | The Guardian - 2 views
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We dream about drones, said 13-year-old Yemeni before his death in a CIA strike
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he lived in constant fear of the “death machines” in the sky that had already killed his father and brother.
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They turned our area into hell and continuous horror, day and night, we even dream of them in our sleep.”
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In Tunisia, One Brother Studied Philosophy, Another Gunned Down Tourists - 0 views
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Jabeur Khachnaoui, a terrorist of the attack on the Bardo museum had an older brother who at the same time was attending a rally against terrorism on the other side of town. The two brothers grew up in a family with three other siblings in Tunisia's impoverished southwest. They were close but ended up deeply divided in their outlooks.
How Egypt is keeping its women trapped in zombie society - Your Middle East - 0 views
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he majority of families would rather have their daughters in an unfulfilling, even miserable marriage, convinced that she will somehow find a magical way to adapt, than see her alone
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Female independence is looked down on,
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true religious scholars are the first to reject any form of overt or clandestine female oppression
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Arranged marriage in Egypt - YouTube - 0 views
Pollution in Tunisia: Dirty business | The Economist - 0 views
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Locals claim that the state-managed industry is causing pollution and illness. Najib Chairat, 52, who worked in the refinery from the age of 32 can barely move and speak. His family believes it was caused by years of breathing in the noxious fumes. Strikes and protests over pollution, wages and unsafe working conditions caused Tunisia's phosphate production to halve after the 2011 revolution.
ISIL aims to launch cyberattacks on U.S. - 0 views
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ISIL's Hacking Division as of late December have tried penetrating the U.S. national electricity grid. Two hackers were caught, having accessed over 1,305 U.S. military personnel's addresses, locations, numbers and family information. Recent ISIL bloggers have discussed crashing passenger jets by hacking into on-board electronics. Other extremists have discussed triggering a lethal radiation release by sending rogue commands to nuclear power plants.
Syria conflict: Damascus remains a war zone - but some families are returning | Middle East | News | The Independent - 0 views
Does Egypt's new tourist marriage law really 'protect women?' - Al Arabiya English - 0 views
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While the law is officially being presented as a means to protect the wife’s financial rights, should the husband make the marriage temporary, a large number of activists and rights groups see it as facilitating a disguised form of human trafficking.
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Women rights activist Nehad Abul Qomsan traced back the progression of the law, or rather “deterioration,” of it.
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