NEWSWIRES--- NY/ THE LAST PHARAOH: MUBARAK AND THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF EGYPT IN THE OBAMA AGE WRITTEN BY EGYPTIAN/AMERICAN AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND LECTURER, ALADDIN ELAASAR, WHO WAS NOMINATED AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN EGYPT IN 2005. THE LAST PHARAOH IS ALSO THE TITLE OF A FORTHCOMING HOLLYWOOD MEGA ACTION MOVIE STARRING WILL SMITH IN 2010.
ARAB & MUSLIM-AMERICANS ARE OUR BEST ASSETS TO WIN THE WAR ON TERROR
By Aladdin Elaasar
Come with friends and affinity groups! Bring signs and banners or maybe
some bucket drums and let's have some fun!
Where : Ohio Statehouse (Broad St & High St, Downtown Columbus)
When : 11.30 am - 12.30 pm // Friday, January 2, 2008
For more information contact : Wendy Ake (one of many calling for this
event) @ 614-595-8650 or wendy.ake@gmail.com
As supporters of how Israel was created, were celebrating down the Ben Franklin Parkway, Palestinians and solidarity activists sent a cloud of 1000 black balloons into the sky to mark the 60th anniversary of Palestinian dispossession, when the Israeli military uprooted and killed Palestine's indigenous population to make way for the Israeli state. Sixty years later this occupation and dispossession continue. Today there is growing public recognition of this reality, which Palestinians have know all along. Read Report by Philly Al Nakba Coalition | See photos by Joe Piette
ALSO SEE: alnakba.org | phillyalnakba.org | Philadelphia SUSTAIN | Dissident Voice series (1, 2, 3)
More Coverage of 60 Years: Nakba Commemoration On the Mall from DC-IMC | 60th Anniversary Protest from Seattle IMC | Architecture of the Nakba and Occupation: Carving Israel Then and Now from Rustbelt Radio
Published on Saturday, May 17, 2008 by The Independent/UK
So Just Where Does the Madness End?
All the monsters buried in the mass graves of the civil war have been dug up
by Robert Fisk
I am not sure what was the worse part of this week. Living in Lebanon? Or reading the outrageous words of George Bush? Several times, I have asked myself this question: have words lost their meaning?