Human rights
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Racism
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Arabism
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Asia
26 June 2009
Culture of Hate: A Racism which Denies the History and Sufferings of its Victims
This hate, which suppresses freedom of thought, and condemns difference, calls itself "Islamic jihad." It draws on religious texts whose interpretation other Muslims dispute. Moreover, because these moderate Muslims challenge this (...)
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Regional
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Morocco
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Identity
19 May 2009
Ayyur is a forbidden name
On Monday,May 11th, I felt discriminated and humiliated when I went to the Civil Status Service to register my newborn (boy) with the name ( Ayyur Adam) in Beni Mellal. The agent said “Adam is accepted but Ayyur is (...)
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Opinion
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Democracy
22 March 2009
Hey Kristof...You’re Late!
While The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof is no stranger to these positions throughout the year, he frequently comes out with his gems of Middle East wisdom right around Bike Week here in Daytona Beach, Florida, when tens of (...)
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International
12 December 2008
The Arab child well worth a travel
En francais
Morocco’s Minister of Health, Mohamed Cheikh Biadillah, went to the international Arab Child Health conference which opened in Riyadh.
He had to assist to the Arab Children Health Congress. The meeting was (...)
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News
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Kabylia
8 February 2008
Zineddine: A young Kabyle assassinated in a military roadblock!
Kabylie: another victim of the Algerian authorities
On the evening of January 29 last, the young Zineddine BERREKLA was shot by the soldiers stationed at the checkpoint erected at the crossroads of Assif-Aissi, in the wilaya of (...)
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Human rights
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Language
18 December 2007
Freedom of Speech - in Any Language
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many have rightly cited the Middle East’s democracy deficit as one of the prime reasons that the region has produced so much terrorism and political violence. In a November (...)
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Politics
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Conflict
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Tamazgha
7 December 2007
Berber Leader Belkacem Lounes: ‘There Is No Worse Colonialism Than That of the Pan-Arabist Clan that Wants to Dominate Our People’
Belkacem Lounes, president of the World Amazigh Congress, wrote an open letter to Libyan leader Mu’ammar Qaddafi in response to the latter’s March 1 speech in which he denied the existence of a Berber or Amazigh [1] people (...)
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Human rights
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Lybia
1 November 2007
Libyan Working Group at the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Mr. Chairman ... distinguished members:
Good afternoon We came here from a country called LIBYA... Libya, the past history, a well known name that doesn’t necessitate any further historical background. A name associated with all (...)
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Regional
7 May 2007
Berber Leader Belkacem Lounes: ’There Is No Worse Colonialism Than That of the Pan-Arabist Clan that Wants to Dominate Our People’
Belkacem Lounes, president of the World Amazigh Congress, wrote an open letter to Libyan leader Mu’ammar Qaddafi in response to the latter’s March 1 speech in which he denied the existence of a Berber or Amazigh [2] people (...)
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Regional
3 May 2007
The berbers vs the barbarians
The attackers had used bayonets (sabres, stones, bars of iron, bill hooks and clubs) to prevent the amazigh students from very commemorating the twenty-seventh birthday of the symbolic “amazigh spring ” and the sixth (...)
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International
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Discrimination
27 April 2007
World Amazigh Congress: Letter to Kadafi
Mr Mouammar Kadhafi Leader of the Libyan Jamahiriya Tripoli-Libya
April 11th, 2007
I do not know if it is by choice that you expressed yourself on the Amazigh question in this symbolic day, for you, of March 2, 2007, which is the (...)
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International
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Religion
19 March 2007
Ladies First by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Bigotry has not been eliminated, but a great deal of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream has been achieved in America. In large part because of the energy and activism of groups such as the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). But (...)
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Regional
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Algeria
21 January 2007
No to an imperial arabic culture
About 20000 students of the University Abderrahmane Mira (Béjaia) organized a big march on Tuesday, 9th January 2007. They marched from the new University (which is located in Aboudaou; 6 Km far from Béjaia) to the headquarter of the (...)
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International
7 December 2006
The Secret Reasons of the Darfur Genocide: fake Arabic imposed on Non-Arabs
All people in Khartoum know already that they live the end of a long tyrannical experience; they have not identified the forthcoming solution, but they have the real feeling that the nightmare named ‘Sudan’ has already its expiry (...)
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Politics
1 September 2006
Why black Africa should resist Arab domination of AU
Part I: The Arab Quest for Lebensraum in Africa“
The third of the Arab community living outside Africa should move in with the two-thirds on the continent and join the African Union “which is the only space we have’ (...)
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Opinion
20 March 2006
The New Anti-Semitism
There is a well-worn platitude that we have all heard many times before: it is perfectly legitimate to criticize the actions and policies of the state of Israel or the doctrines of Zionism without necessarily being motivated by (...)
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Regional
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Tunisia
20 March 2006
Anti-semitism at the university of Manouba (Tunis)
The past 10 of februar, a very serious event set at the faculty of Manouba, one of the principal university establishments of Tunis, on the occasion of a ceremony in the honor of Paul Sebag.
Paul Sebag, died in 2004, is a Tunisian (...)
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Politics
5 March 2006
Arabization
A repeated theme among anti-Amazigh propagandists is that the Amazigh identity was created by the French and that the Amazigh militants are traitors, working for the French. A common insult is to call the Amazigh "sons of the White (...)
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Opinion
20 February 2006
The cultural imperialism of the Arabs
Within Islam, a supposedly universalist religion where all Muslims in the ummah are equal, there is a special place for the Arabs. But how could it be otherwise? Islam itself, a mishmash of pagan Arab lore, Judaism and Christianity, (...)
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International
12 February 2006
Uncle Boutros and Uncle Tom - A Lesson In Arab Tolerance
My friend and scholar, Jerry Gordon, sent me a note the other day alerting me to Diane West’s great article in the The Washington Times referring to the essential historian, Bat Ye’or’s, writings on dhimmitude. (...)
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