20
Dec,2009
Before displacement and before the Israeli unlawful occupation, people had the freedom of choice! The reader feels displaced in time, place, and theme through a narrative that describes Palestine as it used to be; Palestine that we see in
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20
Dec,2009
At the beginning of the 2004 school year, students in public schools in France who refused to remove their hijab, turbans or yarmulkes were to be expelled. The illegitimate law was added to the French Code of Education on the 15th of March 2004
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20
Dec,2009
“This is their first step towards erasing our identity..” and “where is our Islamic loyalty? How could we allow such things to be built in Qatar?” are some reactions to Qatar’s decision of building the first church-form building in th
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15
Dec,2009
Amna’s grandfather recalls a part of Qatar’s history that we are now as Qataris very proud of. Qatar’s history involved two narratives; a narrative of the sea and a narrative of the desert. To know our history, we need to learn how both narrati
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15
Dec,2009
The notion of change can bring about numerous kinds of feelings. Whether excitement or fear, change is inevitable in our daily lives. Only when we allow ourselves to change from within, do we realize we have improved not only ourselves but
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04
Dec,2009
Stories of occupation and resistance should be told by people who witnessed it. Arab countries have been subjected to centuries of colonialism and are living through a phase of new-colonialism. “Freedom” is an abstract concept that doesn’
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14
Nov,2009
Mohammed Alhamadi is a Standards Engineer working in the Quality Assurance Department in Qatar Petroleum, and an art student in Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Although he has already graduated with a BS in Chemical Engineering f
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15
Oct,2009
In a biographical manner, Amna Khalid Al-Hetmi sheds the light on the life of Nadira, the manicurist. Nadira is a simple working woman, whose greatness stems from her simplicity. Amna is an Information Systems junior at Carnegie Mellon Universi
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09
Aug,2009
In a narrative manner Lulwah Al-Thani records a historical tragedy that was transmitted to us orally; a tragedy that had a major impact on the Qatari society in the early 70s. Lulwah proves capable of narrating our own history, using our own native w
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05
Jul,2009
Myriam Chandna is a Professional Writing and English major at Carnegie Mellon University. She is an avid reader, writer, and dreamer - with a strong bias towards the last of those exertions.
Here, she narrates a part of her ancestors’ history. T
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