By Raghda Butros* The majority of boys and girls in our society have no real contact with people of the opposite sex outside their immediate family beyond age eight, when they move to segregated schools. For boys that means no women friends, teachers, mentors, or authority figures of any kind. The women he “knows” are [...]

Video by: 7iber Music by: Sign of Thyme Words by: Naseem Tarawnah It began almost sporadically. Blogger Ahmad Humeid simply decided on the spur-of-the-moment that he didn’t want to celebrate the dawning of the new decade from his living room sofa, and instead, decided to do something a bit different. The idea? Getting together on [...]

هل يوجد أي نوع من الشرف في ما يسمى بجرائم الشرف؟ تمحيص مفهوم الشرف من وجهة نظر مرتكبي جرائم الشرف بقلم: كارول كابلانيان ترجمة: شادن عبد الرحمن لم يكن التقصي عن هذا الموضوع بالأمر السهل. كلما تعمقت في فهم حيثيات جرائم الشرف، كلما ازداد تساؤلي عن كيفية تكوين الناس لمعتقداتهم و مفاهيمهم. دعوني ابدأ بشرح [...]

Written By: Naseem Tarawnah Now that summer is officially over, I’m temporarily forced in to the arms of some reflection. For sure, there are many instruments of observations I find myself often using to tell when summer is “truly” upon us. Hot weather is one of them – yes, that seems to be a given. [...]

GAZA CITY – Sometimes its not even worth asking why in the Gaza Strip; why the electricity is cut, why the water is dangerous to drink; or why the banks barely functioning. It is better to understand a simple rule taught to us in the movie, Blood Diamond or in K’naan’s song, T.I.A. – This. [...]

Written by Shalabieh. I love taxi rides and taxi drivers. Every time I get into a taxi it is an opportunity to learn more, interact more and get a pulse for what people are thinking, or even how they are thinking (some may argue it’s the other way round). But the thing I notice the [...]