Here's what's happening in Arab media!

The Martin Ennals Foundation invites nominations for its 2011 Award. The deadline is 9th December 2010. The MEA application form and more information on the Award can be obtained 1) from the MEA website: www.martinennalsaward.org, ready for electronic submission, or 2) by filling out the form attached and sending it to the MEA Secretariat: c/o OMCT, PO Box 21, CH-1211 Geneva 8, Switzerland. Tel: +4122 8094925 fax: +4122 8094929 e-mail: info@martinen… Continue

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Israel's deadly raid on a flotilla of aid ships headed for Gaza has shocked the world.

Israel, like any other state, has the right to self-defence, but this was an outrageous use of lethal force to defend an outrageous and lethal policy -- Israel's blockade of Gaza, where two thirds of families don't know where they'll find their next meal.

The UN, EU, and nearly every other government and multilateral organization have called on Israel to lift the blockade and, now, launch a f… Continue

جريدة الأخبار-

تواصل «مخيمات» استطلاعها لما يدرسه الطلاب الفلسطينيون عن بلادهم، وما هي عيوب مناهجهم التربوية، وخصوصاً في كتب التاريخ والجغرافيا والتربية المدنية، في ظل راهنية هذا التاريخ وتعرّض جغرافيا فلسطين لتغييرات جسيمة ومستمرة توجب مرونة في وضع مناهجها. وبعدما تناولنا طلاب لبنان، هنا تقرير من غزة

غزة ــ قيس صفدي
أن يتضمن درس في منهاج الصف الثاني الابتدائي للطلاب الفلسطينيين رحلة لطلاب من غزة إلى القدس يتعرّفون فيها على المعالم الأثرية والتاريخية، ويجولون في أسواق المدينة المقدسة، ويؤدون ا… Continue

from MERIP

The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) vigorously
protests the arrest and detention of the filmmaker and journalist Maziar
Bahari and the reformist intellectual Saeed Hajjarian by authorities of
the Islamic Republic of Iran. Both men have been taken into custody amidst
the mass civil disobedience following the transparently stolen Iranian presidential election on June 12, the "result" of which Supreme Leader… Continue