user preferences

New Events

Mashriq / Arabia / Iraq

no event posted in the last week
Note: Articles classified as "non anarchist press" are published in this section of the site. They do not usually reflect the opinions of Anarkismo.net nor of the organizations who run this site and are included by reason of their possible interest to readers. The opinions expressed in any such articles are exclusively those of the articles' authors.
Amer al-Helo and his family outside their destroyed home.
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Tuesday March 03, 2009 - 22:48 by Eva Bartlett   image 3 images
Eva Bartlett is a Canadian human rights advocate and freelancer who spent eight months in 2007 living in West Bank communities and four months in Cairo and at the Rafah crossing. She is currently based in the Gaza Strip after having arrived with the third Free Gaza Movement boat in November. She has been working with the International Solidarity Movement in Gaza, accompanying ambulances while witnessing and documenting the ongoing Israeli air strikes and ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. All images by Eva Bartlett.
... read full story / add a comment
A view from the sea at Jaffa looking east onto the city, 1898-1914. (Matson Collection)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / history / non-anarchist press Tuesday March 03, 2009 - 22:40 by Sami Abu Shehadeh & Fadi Shbaytah   image 6 images
Sami Abu Shehadeh and Fadi Shbaytah are residents of Jaffa, and members of the Jaffa Popular Committee for the Defense of Land and Housing Rights. This article was translated from Arabic by Hazem Jamjoum, and was originally published in the upcoming (Autumn 2008/Winter 2009) issue of al-Majdal, the quarterly magazine of the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (http://www.badil.org/).
... read full story / add a comment
Palestinians incinerated to death by Israel’s White Phosphorous bombs
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Wednesday February 25, 2009 - 09:29 by Khalid Amayreh   image 1 image
In an apparent effort to sound “balanced” and “unbiased,” the London-based human rights group, Amnesty International (AI) , has urged the international community to halt arms sales to the Israeli apartheid regime and the Palestinian Islamic liberation movement, Hamas.

... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialismo / guerra / non-anarchist press Tuesday February 24, 2009 - 20:47 by Eduardo Galeano
Para justificarse, el terrorismo de estado fabrica terroristas: siembra odio y cosecha coartadas. Todo indica que esta carnicería de Gaza, que según sus autores quiere acabar con los terroristas, logrará multiplicarlos.
... read full story / add a comment
Israeli riot police argue with Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel protesting against racism outside a polling station in Um al-Fahem during the Israeli elections, 10 February 2009. (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Friday February 13, 2009 - 18:37 by Ali Abuminah   image 1 image
Co-founder of The Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah is author of "One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse" (Metropolitan Books, 2006). A version of this article first appeared on the Guardian's Comment is Free website with the headline "No peace for Israel."
... read full story / add a comment
With the failure of the previous Arab peace initiative it's time to create a new agreement beginning with Israel completely returning the land it occupied in 1967. (Mamoun Wazwaz/MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Monday February 09, 2009 - 08:50 by Ahmad Hijazi   image 1 image
Ahmad Hijazi is Lebanese writer and researcher on the Arab-Israeli struggle and the effects of media and international opinion on shaping it. ... read full story / add a comment
In both Lebanon and Gaza, the resistance is still standing. (Wesam Saleh/ MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Monday February 09, 2009 - 07:57 by Robin Yassin-Kassab   image 1 image
Robin Yassin-Kassab has been a journalist in Pakistan and an English teacher around the Arab world. His first novel, The Road from Damascus, is published by Hamish Hamilton and Penguin. He blogs on politics, culture, religion and books at www.qunfuz.blogspot.com.
... read full story / add a comment
Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron gather around the body of a protester after he was killed by Israeli troops during a rally by Hamas supporters against Israel's military operation in Gaza, 16 January 2009. (Mamoun Wazwaz/MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 07:14 by Joseph Massad   image 1 image
Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of The Persistence of the Palestinian Question (Routledge, 2006).
... read full story / add a comment
400_0___10000000_0_0_0_0_0_israeli_soldier_points_his_gun_at_a_palestinian_child_in_hebron_city__file_2007.jpg
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialismo / guerra / non-anarchist press Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 02:13 by Andrea Benítez Dumont   image 1 image
Comienzan a surgir en la sociedad israelí las primeras voces contra la guerra. "Lo hago para oponerme a esta locura y para romper con la ilusión de que todos estamos a favor de esta guerra innecesaria basada en mentiras"
... read full story / add a comment
Palestinian farmers destroy their vegetables in protest of Isreal's closure of the produce market in Beita village, near the West Bank city of Nablus, June 2007. (Rami Swidan/MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / economy / non-anarchist press Sunday February 01, 2009 - 20:23 by Sami Halabi   image 1 image
Sami Halabi is a freelance journalist and political commentator based in Beirut who covers a variety of economic and political issues relating to the Middle East and in particular the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Friday January 30, 2009 - 19:33 by Palestinian NGO Network
The following position paper was issued on 28 January 2009 by the Palestinian NGO Network:
... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Friday January 30, 2009 - 01:44 by Iyad Burnat
Three injured and dozens suffered teargas inhalation during the Bil'in Weekly Demonstration ... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / other libertarian press Wednesday January 28, 2009 - 18:55 by AF - من فرع مانشستر
بيان من فرع مانشستر للفيدرالية الأناركية في بريطانيا عن حرب غزة
... read full story / add a comment
A Palestinian boy stands behind a fence at a UN school in Gaza where his family was forced to seek refuge. Israel's attacks on Gaza have affected all 1.5 million Palestinians in the besieged territory. (Hatem Omar/MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Friday January 23, 2009 - 08:28 by Dalila Mahdawi   image 1 image
Dalila Mahdawi is a journalist with The Daily Star in Lebanon.
... read full story / add a comment
Palestinians inspect a mosque in Gaza City destroyed by Israel during its 22 days of attacks on the Gaza Strip that killed more than 1,300 Palestinians, 18 January 2009. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Thursday January 22, 2009 - 02:03 by Joseph Massad   image 1 image
Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of The Persistence of the Palestinian Question (Routledge, 2006).
... read full story / add a comment
Thousands of Palestinians and Israeli Jews marched from Tel Aviv to Jaffa protesting against the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, 17 January 2009. (Meni Berman/ActiveStills)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Thursday January 22, 2009 - 01:55 by Nora Barrows-Friedman   image 1 image
Last Saturday night in the coastal town of Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv, several thousand demonstrators -- including Palestinians, various peace groups, Israeli anarchists and teenaged Israeli refuseniks fresh from jail for refusing to serve in the mandatory military -- marched through the main street in the old city with flags, banners, and vociferous determination to keep up the fight inside Israeli society against their government's lethal operations in Gaza. Israeli security forces, carrying weapons and video cameras, heavily flanked the protesters.
... read full story / add a comment
From a hill just outside the Gaza Strip, Israelis watch the air assaults on Gaza and dance in celebration of the attacks, 8 January 2009. (Newscom)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Tuesday January 20, 2009 - 04:18 by Ali Abuminah   image 1 image
Ali Abuminah, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah is author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse (Metropolitan Books, 2006), explains the case against sectarianism and for a democratic and secular single country in Palestinian lands. ... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Tuesday January 20, 2009 - 02:03 by Smadar Lavie
Smadar Lavie is the Hubert H. Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Islamic World and the Middle East at Macalester College.
... read full story / add a comment
White phosphorus fired by Israel falls on Gaza City. (Eva Bartlett)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Tuesday January 20, 2009 - 01:58 by Eva Bartlett   image 1 image
Eva Bartlett is a Canadian human rights advocate and freelancer who spent eight months in 2007 living in West Bank communities and four months in Cairo and at the Rafah crossing. She is currently based in the Gaza Strip after having arrived with the third Free Gaza Movement boat in November. She has been working with the International Solidarity Movement in Gaza, accompanying ambulances while witnessing and documenting the ongoing Israeli air strikes and ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. ... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Tuesday January 20, 2009 - 01:55 by PACBI
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott learned today from its Steering Committee member Dr. Haidar Eid that the headquarters of the University Teachers Association-Palestine, in Gaza, was bombed by the Israeli occupation forces during their indiscriminate, willful destruction campaign in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City on Friday. ... read full story / add a comment
This page can be viewed in
English Italiano Deutsch
© 2005-2024 Anarkismo.net. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Anarkismo.net. [ Disclaimer | Privacy ]