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Women in Gaza still managing to sometimes sneak a shisha
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January 26, 2011 12:00 AM
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Pam Bailey InterPress Service GAZA CITY: When the Hamas administration in Gaza imposed restrictions on shisha (water pipe) several months ago, it wasn’t for health reasons – even though the habit is pervasive in the densely populated strip of land. Rather, the ban targeted only...
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America's influence on the wane in Iraq
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November 22, 2010 12:00 AM
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Mohammed A. Salih Inter Press Service SULAIMANIYA, Iraq: Iraq’s much-awaited recent power-sharing deal signifies a shift of influence on Iraqi politics away from the US and its regional allies to domestic Iraqi political actors, most notably the Kurds, and eastward to Iran. In a matter...
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Obama's Iran policy puts off US Jews
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October 14, 2010 12:00 AM
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Jim Lobe Inter Press Service WASHINGTON: US Jews, who, next to African Americans, have constituted the minority most supportive of Barack Obama, are growing more skeptical of his performance and increasingly hawkish on Iran, according to a new poll released Tuesday by the American Jewish...
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Arab abolitionist movements seek unity on steps to rid region of death penalty
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October 13, 2010 12:00 AM
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Cam McGrath Inter Press Service CAIRO: Rights activists have called for nascent abolitionist movements of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to coordinate their efforts to press Arab regimes to end capital punishment. “Civil society managed to put abolition on the agenda...
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Israel's homeless bedouin take on the state in the face of repeated demolitions
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October 02, 2010 12:00 AM
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Jerrold Kessel and Peter Klochendler Inter Press Service AL-ARAQIB, Israel: The pukk … pukk … pukk of a generator wired into the engine of a small truck punctures the silence of the desert. A man folds the bottom of his long yellow galabiya robe, tucking it into his blue jeans....
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Farmers vs. settlers: Some killings more 'moral' than others
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September 22, 2010 12:00 AM
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Mel Frykberg Inter Press Service OCCUPIED RAMALLAH: Controversy is building up over a 91-year-old man, his 17-year-old grandson and a 20-year-old neighbor, all farmers, who were killed early last week by Israeli shelling and gunfire as they tried to tend their land 700 meters from northern...
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Twin visions, twin enemies tearing the country apart
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September 21, 2010 12:00 AM
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Mona Alami Inter Press Service BEIRUT: Last month’s bloody gun battle in the streets of a heavily populated Beirut neighborhood may have been triggered by an individual incident; its sectarian dimension, however, has once again highlighted the underlying battle of two currents, two...
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Besieged Gazans dream of fish, and flowers
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September 21, 2010 12:00 AM
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Mohammed Omer Inter Press Service GAZA CITY: As the many colors of the fish and flowers slowly disappear from the Gaza landscape, the already grim prospects of the besieged residents begins to look even bleaker. Fishing was a profession that used to keep thousands of fishermen and their...
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Ahmadinejad aims to provoke constitutional overhaul
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September 21, 2010 12:00 AM
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Farideh Farhi Inter Press Service HONOLULU: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s confrontational approach toward the Iranian Parliament could turn into a wider systemic crisis and is provoking appeals for a much more resolute intervention by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But...
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Muslim Brotherhood struggles against shut doors
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September 04, 2010 12:00 AM
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Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani Inter Press Service CAIRO: As Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood gears up to contest November parliamentary elections, some analysts note the relatively few gains made by the Brotherhood-led opposition over the last five years in an assembly dominated by...
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'McCarthyism' on the rise in Israel's universities
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August 28, 2010 12:00 AM
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Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler Inter Press Service OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Rightwing Israeli groups financially supported by Jewish and fundamentalist Christian groups from abroad are on a campaign to undermine free thought in Israeli universities. Collaterally, a move is under way by...
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Few Palestinians get permits to work in Israel, fewer to pray at Al-Aqsa
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August 18, 2010 12:00 AM
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Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler Inter Press Service HIRBET DEIR, Occupied West Bank: For 38-year-old Mohammad al-Baradiyeh the Muslim holy month of Ramadan is always a blessing. In fact, every day of the month-and-a-half prior to Ramadan has been good for Mohammad. With a permit...
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Israel's generals, intel officials oppose attack on Iran
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August 14, 2010 12:00 AM
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Gareth Porter Inter Press Service WASHINGTON: Pro-Israeli journalist Jeffrey Goldberg’s article in The Atlantic magazine was evidently aimed at showing why the Barack Obama administration should worry that it risks an attack by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran...
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Shark slaughter advances into Egyptian Red Sea
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August 10, 2010 12:00 AM
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Cam McGrath Inter Press Service HURGHADA, Egypt: Six Yemeni fishing boats captured in Egyptian territorial waters in June might have gone unnoticed if not for their unusual cargo – several kilometers of long lines and over 20 tons of dead sharks. “The capture of these boats...
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NGO, lawyers call for anti-discrimination legislation amid growing racism in Lebanon
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August 09, 2010 12:00 AM
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Mona Alami Inter Press Service BEIRUT: Lebanon has a reputation for openness, partly because of the relative freedom enjoyed by women in comparison to other Middle Eastern countries. But many women face rampant discrimination. Women driving luxury vehicles with an Asian or African woman...
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