via EGYPTIAN CHRONICLES (blog) on JUNE 17, 2013: Cairo University professors and experts in the faculties of engineering and agriculture have formed a group called “Group of Nile Basin” {GNB} and this group prepared extremely important report about the Ethiopia’s great Renaissance Dam. The report was published in Arabic on Facebook by Dr. Nader Noor El [...]
by ERIC FERRERI for DUKE TODAY on JUNE 11, 2013 : **UPDATED JUNE 12 BELOW: Listen To Erdağ Göknar on VOA discussing the situation in Turkey DURHAM, NC - As he watched the recent protests in Istanbul, Turkey scholar Erdağ Göknar wanted to create a photographic timeline to help tell the story. He turned to Pinterest, a social media bulletin [...]
by OMID SAFI for RELIGION NEWS SERVICE on JUNE 8, 2013: We had not meant to find ourselves in the midst of the Istanbul demonstrations, or thinking about tear gas. It just kind of happened. I had come Turkey to lead two educational tours focused on the historical and spiritual dimensions of Turkey, when we found ourselves [...]
by ROBERT MCCAW for ISLAMiCommentary on JUNE 7, 2013: Recent reports have revealed that the FBI and National Security Agency are “tapped” directly into the servers of the nation’s top Internet providers and collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon customers. It is strongly suspected that the federal government is also collecting call data [...]
by JUAN COLE in INFORMED COMMENT on JUNE 7, 2013: Bradley Manning, who spilled the beans on the US blowing away of unarmed Iraqi journalists and overlooking war crimes by the US military and allied Iraqi troops, released thousands of low-level cable messages. He has been charged by the US government with thereby being a traitor, [...]
Nourhan Elsayed — ‘Topless Jihad’: Fighting Oppression with Oppression?
by NOURHAN ELSAYED for ISLAMiCommentary on JUNE 12, 2013: I did a double-take when I saw the words “Topless Jihad” in a news headline earlier this Spring. My first thought was “editorial mistake?” The story that followed made me wish the headline was an error. This past April, Femen – a Ukrainian based feminist group whose movement [...]
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