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Attention Artists!

goldenroomblog wrote 3 hours ago: Sometimes words just aren’t enough. And for when the written word cannot express an idea or fe … more →

Tags: about, 3 Faiths Forum, Anti-Semitism, Art, Art Therapy, community art, Community building, community cohesion, community relations

"Syria...Is it a friend?"

Mike Pizzi wrote 1 day ago: In an op-ed for al Dustour, Omar Kallab criticizes the Friends of Syria conferences, which he argues … more →

Tags: International Affairs, Syria, Arab Spring, Assad, Friends of Syria, Jordan, jordan media, media, Newspapers

Mideast Backlashes Yet to Come

Sandboxer wrote 2 days ago: By Sharmine Narwani The Middle East is treading water these days. Two years of rhetoric about oustin … more →

Tags: Arab awakening, Egypt, middle east, Syria, U.S. Foreign Policy, Backlash, Bahrain, BRICs, Christian

No 'Good Guys' Or 'Bad Guys' in Syria 2 comments

tonosanchezreig wrote 4 days ago: It is, therefore, rather odd to see that the Western states tend to favor one side of the other in t … more →

Tags: Arab Spring, Politics, Religion, Sociology, Syria

The tortured rhetoric of escalation.1 comment

blindingtruth wrote 4 days ago: Ninety-nine years ago a war began in Europe which did more to define the borders of the Middle East … more →

Tags: Geo-Politics, War, Asia, History, middle east, World War 1, Iraq War, Syria, iraq

WHAT ELSE DO THE WEST NEEDS TO STOP SHITTING AROUND ON REDLINES???

tonosanchezreig wrote 4 days ago: Even by the standards of Syria’s ever-worsening stream of atrocity and massacre videos, the la … more →

Tags: Sociology, Syria

"Iran's dangerous game in the region!"

Maya Perlmann wrote 6 days ago: In this article, Bater Mohammad Ali Wardam discusses Iran’s role in the Syrian crisis. He suggests t … more →

Tags: International Affairs, Syria, Arab Spring, Assad, ensour, Iran, Israel, Jordan, jordan media

What next for the winners?15 comments

DAWN.COM wrote 6 days ago: The victors and losers have been pretty obvious in the 2013 elections. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz … more →

Tags: Forum > Forum of the Day, home forum, Balochistan, bilateral ties, Elections, energy crisis, forum, India, Inflation

Syrian refugees in Lebanon: replaying the lead-up to the Lebanese civil war

mirandawmeyer wrote 6 days ago: Photo via LA Times: Syrians who fled their homes due to fighting line up to collect water from a tan … more →

Tags: The Levant, History, Government, migration, hizballah, Hezbollah, Syria, War, Sunni

Racial Prejudice4 comments

jasonoruairc wrote 1 week ago: Gate D, at Belfast International Airport, is drab, and cheap-looking. The shabby grey carpet and bei … more →

Tags: aldergrove, Atrocities, Belfast, Belfast International Airport, Belfast Telegraph, british army, checkpoints, glasgow, guinness

These violent delights have violent ends.

Sister Karamazova wrote 1 week ago: We gathered in the next office for our ritualistic tea break. Where I sit in the corner eating an ap … more →

Tags: Amber, Catholic, cross-community, Northern Ireland, Protestant, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Quotes, the troubles

Iran's diplomacy: secular or sectarian?4 comments

hjviersen wrote 1 week ago: Here’s a recent communiqué channeled through Iran’s semi-official state media agency, de … more →

Tags: Iran

"Dancing to the tune of sectarianism!"

Ryan Folio wrote 1 week ago: Last week, residents of the Souther Mazar region of Jordan set fire to a lodge for Bohra Shiite Musl … more →

Tags: International Affairs, Jordanian Politics, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Assad, Bombing, iraq, Pluralism

Pakistan's women lead the way against fascists

charliethechulo wrote 1 week ago: The fascists of the Taliban, and their appeasers like Imran Khan, have been defied and (hopefully) d … more →

Tags: Anti-Fascism, Civil Rights, democracy, Elections, Fascism, Islamism, Jim D, misogyny, Pakistan

SWP madness5 comments

louisproyect wrote 1 week ago: No, I am not talking about the British group but the Americans who are far nuttier and far more peri … more →

Tags: housing

It’s ever so simple: Middle East

tonosanchezreig wrote 1 week ago: The Middle East. The land of minarets and veils and other inaccurate clichés. Where every male’s ear … more →

Tags: Religion, Sociology, humanism, Stereotypes, Lebanon

Crossing to safety

paulstanistreet wrote 1 week ago:   Frankie Quinn’s picture of a peace line dividing residents from different communities i … more →

Tags: Adult Education, wea, Peace Lines, Peace Walls, Interfaces, Northern Ireland, Community Education, community relations, Belfast

For or Against

meenister wrote 1 week ago: Jesus said: “Whoever is not against us is for us.” At the height of “the Troubles” in Northern Irela … more →

Tags: The Ramblings of a Reformed Ecclesiastic, Prayer, Envy, bridges, Northern Ireland, Troubles, Priest Minister Rabbi, fences, Stereotypes

Iraq's Sectarian Electoral System

cpatrick0311 wrote 2 weeks ago: Election worker empties ballots from a box during the 2009 provincial elections in Basra. (Photo: Ne … more →

Tags: iraq, Iraqi elections, democracy, Electoral systems, Elections, CPA


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