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Items by Abdullah Omar
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The Woman from Tantoura
When will all this pain end? This is perhaps the harshest phrase in the novel The Woman from Tantoura by Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour. It is a question that is repeated daily by more than 14 million Palestinians across the world for more than a century. Since the end...
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Can an Arab team win the World Cup?
We all witnessed the great performance and deserved victory of the Moroccan team against the Brazilian team, which has won five World Cup trophies. The Moroccan win comes on the back of its excellent performance at the Qatar World Cup 2022 where it came fourth, making it the best...
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Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet of Palestine
Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) was one of the most important Palestinian and Arab poets who contributed greatly to the development and progress of Arabic poetry. He was known as one of the writers of the resistance and his poems espoused the Palestinian cause. His poetry has been translated into several...
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After travelling by sea for 30 days from Lebanon to Brazil, Mohamad Mourad’s real journey began
Migration has existed since ancient times, often a difficult choice for people to make, individually and collectively, for a variety of reasons. Historically, people migrated to find areas to grow trees and plants and raise livestock, seeking places where water and grass were readily available. With the passage of...
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Palestinians and their supporters across Latin America have commemorated the Nakba anniversary
Many events have been held across Latin America on the 74th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, both official and popular. The Nakba — Catastrophe — was the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the creation of the Zionist state of Israel by terror gangs helped by the British Mandate authorities....
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Land Day
Land Day is one of the most prominent days of the struggle of the Palestinians who were able to stay on their land in 1948; a milestone in Palestinian history since the Nakba of the same year. Despite the ethnic cleansing carried out by the Zionist terror gangs and...
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Samer Kamal: Arab Canadian Sports Association is to enhance our existence
Immigrant communities, wherever they go, establish their own institutions in the new societies, whether they are cultural, sports or even economic institutions, to help their members maintain their connection with their original societies and, on the other hand, give them the opportunity to express their trends and develop their...
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Pro-Palestine Mexican Congresswoman Ramirez is ‘grateful’ to the people of Turkey
Julieta Ramirez is a congresswoman in Mexico, a role she took on when she was just 26 years old. She was one of the participants from Latin America at the fourth Conference of Parliamentarians for Al-Quds in Ankara earlier this month. Her political life started when she sought to...
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Meeting Palestine’s Olympic heroes: Yazan Al Bawwab
It can’t have been easy for someone to be born in one country, grow up in another, live in a third and represent a fourth in the Olympics. That, in a nutshell, is the story of Palestinian swimmer Yazan Al-Bawwab, who was born in Saudi Arabia to Palestinian refugee...
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Meeting Palestine’s Olympic heroes: Hanna Barakat
Hanna is 1 of 5 athletes representing Palestine at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics the occupied country's 7th appearance at the games...
