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Karen AbuZayd: ‘No one wants to be a refugee’
In the media frenzy surrounding the escalating refugee crisis in Europe, and particularly in the wake of the Paris attacks on 13 November in which there have been hints that one of the perpetrators may have possessed a Syrian passport, it is often all too easy to forget the...
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‘The Narcicyst’: An Arab raging against the machine
“Hip hop is a school,” says Yassin Alsalman, better known by his MC title of “the Narcicyst”, or simple “Narcy”, “it’s a school that taught me a lot about myself outside of the school environment. I didn’t have to pay for any books, I didn’t have to listen to...
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A new Saudi 'project' for the Middle East: Exclusive interview with Jamal Khashoggi
“The Saudis bring stability back to the region, and stop Iranian intervention. That is the larger picture; that is the larger aim.” Never one to shy away from controversy, Saudi journalist and commentator Jamal Khashoggi has long been known within Saudi Arabia for his...
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Why can't I be a Sushi? New film project challenges the stereotypes of sectarianism
“Sectarianism” has fast become the buzz word of the 21st century Middle East politics; rolled out and dusted off every time a journalist or political analyst wants to make a pseudo-intellectual statement about intercommunal violence in the region. Much like Samuel Huntingdon’s much-denounced “clash of civilisations” thesis, the use...
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Samah Jabr: The 'invisible damage' of life under the occupation
“There is a wish for Palestinians to be stateless, but also faceless and voiceless.” Samah Jabr, one of Palestine’s first female psychiatrists and a trained psychoanalytic psychotherapist, has spent her life witnessing and treating the psychological effects of the continued Israeli occupation on the Palestinian population. Not content to...