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The Scream: Yemeni Women Make Their Voices Heard In Documentary
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Jan 21, 2013 |
At the peak of the uprising against now ousted Yemeni strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh, Khadija al-Salami left her diplomatic post in Paris to film the mass participation by long-marginalised women in the revolt. In her documentary "The Scream," screened at the Dubai International Film Festival, Salami -- who was forced More...
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A Green Arab Documentary from Beirut to Make Arab World Sustainable
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Jan 21, 2013 |
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Students from the American University of Beirut have worked with the Forum for Environment and Development to create a documentary on the environmental challenges facing the Arab world. The youth of the Arab world have had a particularly inspiring – if turbulent – last couple of years. Protests, revolutions and More...
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Tedxbaghdad Focuses On Women
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Jan 21, 2013 |
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The TED conferences began in 1984 as a way to bring people of different backgrounds together to share ideas. Since then it has spawned TEDGlobal, which focuses on international issues, and the TEDx community conferences in cities around the world. People from all over Iraq arrived in Baghdad for TEDxBaghdad, More...
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Occupation Can’t Stifle Innovation
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Jan 21, 2013 |
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“We designed a device to convert plastic waste into gasoline, kerosene and diesel fuel,” explains the 23-year-old chemical engineering graduate Afnan Hamad from An-Najah National University in Nablus. “We hope to see a real factory built, and be the first supplier of alternative fuel in Palestine.” Hamad and her colleagues More...
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Rapping With "Fear and Respect" In Saudi Arabia
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Jan 21, 2013 |
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Qusai Kheder, self-styled ambassador for rap, has built a niche following for his sex-and-violence free brand of rap music. Qusai cut his teeth as a member of Saudi Arabia's tiny hip hop underground, becoming the first Saudi to make a rap recording in 1994, earning him the status of "outcast, More...
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Scars of War - Depression and Drug Abuse
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Jan 9, 2013 |
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Decades of violence in Iraq have taken their toll on the country and its citizens, leading many to do things out of necessity for survival that otherwise would never be an option. For some men this means joining militant groups because they pay when there is no other work to More...
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Bahrain’s Market 338: Souq Back in Style
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Jan 9, 2013 |
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As restaurant goers in Manama’s chic Adliya district wander back to their cars this week they will come across glass bottles, car tyres and damaged road signs. In other parts of Bahrain this would cause many to turn around, but here in Block 338 these objects are public art and they lure More...
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Egypt’s Equator Prize Winners Preserve Environment through Tradition
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Jan 9, 2013 |
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The Medicinal Plants Association in Egypt helps preserve biodiversity and is one of the 25 winners of the Equator Prize 2012. Policy making within the realm of “development” is often burdened by an excessively westernized design resulting in unintended consequences on the welfare of local populations. Fortunately it is becoming More...
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Arabizi – Does The Levant Youth Speak Arabic These Days?
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Jan 9, 2013 |
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"Hi, kifak, ca va?" If you have heard this phrase before it's either because you've been to Lebanon or you've seen someone foolish enough to buy the t-shirt (sorry Mom). Yet while the population of Lebanon and other areas of the Levant region are said to have been multilingual for More...
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Art for the City
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Jan 9, 2013 |
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In an effort to beautify the streets of Dubai while promoting Emirati artists, a street art project has been launched as part of a collaborative initiative with the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA). The two artists, who were selected by the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) for the More...
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