Category: Middle East

NOVANEWS Al Jazeera English, Apr 1, 2009 As the child of Palestinian refugees who moved to Brooklyn, New York at the age of five, award-winning poet and author Suheir Hammad‘s early life was infused with […]

NOVANEWS What are we doing to babies in Gaza? Published on 8 March 2010 in Israel. 0 Comments Tags: Gaza, Judaism, Palestine, Zionism. An email from an employee of the Tuesday’s Child NGO: According to […]

NOVANEWS Haaretz      Biden: East Jerusalem plan undermines peace talks   http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1155171.html  By Nir Hasson, Avi Issacharoff and Natash Mozgovaya   Israel’s decision to approve 1,600 new homes in an ultra-Orthodox East Jerusalem neighborhood is undermining Middle East […]

NOVANEWS Paul Howes is national secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union. He loves Israel like it’s a woman he’s dying to take to bed. In other words, any flaws are utterly ignored. His latest piece, […]

NOVANEWS Freedom House is the least qualified organization to speak about freedoms, especially in the Middle East because they are politically tainted. I am too sick with a terrible cold to respond to everything here […]

NOVANEWS “As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, Iman Muhammad Hassan Ghazawwi marked her ninth year in Israeli custody on Monday. Ghazawwi, 33, was sentenced to 13 years, accused of planting an explosive device near […]

NOVANEWS “Palestinian women in particular continue to face extremely difficult circumstances due to human rights violations perpetrated against them. Violations of women’s rights peaked during the latest Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, which took […]

NOVANEWS “Unlike other Arab Gulf women, Saudi women still face an uphill struggle to gain political and social rights and need the consent of male guardians for almost everything, including obtaining a passport and travel. […]

NOVANEWS The caption reads: “A Palestinian militant clashes with an Israeli policeman in Jerusalem’s Old City on February 28. Photo: Isranet” (thanks Hussein) Posted by As’ad at 6:55 AM www.angryarab.blogspot.com

NOVANEWS by Anonymous on March 7, 2010 · A scene from the protest in Sheikh Jarrah (Photo: Yotam Ronen/ Activestills.org) Last night’s huge demonstration against the Israeli government’s program of Judaizing East Jerusalem, which took […]