Filmmakers Chiheb Khaled, Kamal Zakour, and Chafik M. Rouag are finalizing the production of an animated short film aimed at opening a window on Algeria’s culture.
Source: www.barakabits.com
The child sustained a head injury and was taken to the nearest hospital for medical treatment, according to witnesses.
An Israeli army spokeswoman did not have any immediate information, but told Ma’an News Agency that she was looking into the incident.
The Hebron Defense Committee has reported that two masks settlers threw stones, on Saturday afternoon, at two children from Khirbet a-Tawil, southeast of Yatta town.
The Committee added that a child, identified as Sojoud ‘Awad, 6 years of age, was struck in the head, and one of her legs.
Settlers routinely carry out acts of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank but are rarely held accountable, as Israeli authorities are often complicit in the attacks on Palestinians, their property and their lands, according to Israeli human rights organization B’tselem.
There were at least 329 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in 2014, as reported by the UNOCH.
The Ma’on settlement, home of the child’s attackers, is located in the South Hebron Hills, an area witness to ongoing tensions between Palestinian residents and settlers who reside there illegally according to international law.
Source: www.imemc.org
Those of us who know the nature of the beast could not have been surprised by the results of the Israeli election.
Like many of my friends, I was also relieved that a liberal Zionist government was not elected. It would have allowed the charade of the “peace process” and the illusion of the two-state solution to linger on while the suffering of the Palestinians continues.
As always, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself provided the inevitable conclusion when he declared the end of the two-state solution — inviting us all to the long overdue funeral of an ill-conceived idea that provided Israel with international immunity for its colonialist project in Palestine.
The power of the charade was on show when the world and local pundits unrealistically predicted a victory for liberal Zionism, an Israeli ideological trend that is near extinction — embodied by the Zionist Union list headed by Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni.
The exit polls compiled by Israel’s finest statisticians reinforced the wishful thinking, leading to a huge media fiasco as expectations of the “liberal” camp’s victory turned into shock and dismay over Netanyahu’s triumph.
Source: electronicintifada.net
In a statement issued on Monday, the Office stated that the new premises will serve as a regional platform to increase tourist flows between the Kingdom and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Described as having “very strong potential,” the Gulf market is very promising. Middle Easterners stay an average of ten days, and the approximate expense of their accommodations is four times higher than the average budget of tourists from elsewhere in the world.
On the sidelines of the office’s inauguration, the Moroccan National Tourist Office and the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority will sign an agreement to strengthen experience exchanges and increase tourism flows between the two countries.
As part of its tourism vision, Morocco aspires to attract more tourists and explore more world markets.
The Kingdom won the Best Stand award on Thursday at the International Travel and Tourism Exhibition, in Moscow, Russia, held from March 18 to 21, 2015.
In February, Lahcen Haddad, the Minister of Tourism, said that the tourism sector achieved positive and overall encouraging results in 2014 despite a slowdown in the past few months.
Source: www.moroccoworldnews.com
The project entitled, ”Khoya: Jewish Morocco’s Audio Archives,” will collect and archive audio recordings of music and stories of Moroccan Jews.
Since 2007, the researcher and interpreter of songs of Judeo-Moroccan heritage has collected hundreds of records and continues to do so in her small office in Casablanca, the city where most of the Jewish community of Morocco resides.
The sound library includes two types of recordings: songs and popular music by Moroccan Jewish artists in the field or in a commercial format and recordings of stories of Moroccan Jewish families as recounted by both Jews and Muslims.
El Baz, originally from the northern city of Tetouan, regrets that “Many young people here have never heard of Judeo-Arab music.”
The name of the project, “Khoya: Morocco’s Jewish Sound Archives,” was chosen to reflect this common heritage of Moroccans, according to El Baz. “Khoya” has a double meaning: “my brother” in Moroccan Arabic and “jewel” in Spanish.
Her message is that “Jews and Muslims in Morocco are brothers, sharing the same customs.” She said, “we must work together to revive this heritage.”
The initiative was presented at the Museum of Moroccan Judaism as part of a screening debate in January. The presence of Jews in Morocco “goes back 2,500 years” and was reinforced by waves of refugees especially from Andalusia, says the curator of the museum, Zhor Rhihl.
Fleeing the Reconquista of the Catholic kings, the Jews of Andalusia flocked especially to Morocco in the fifteenth century.
Beyond just the preservation of the Andalusian period of history, El Baz sees even greater possibilities. “I dream of a national sound library that would preserve the Moroccan oral tradition as a whole, not only the Jewish heritage. Otherwise, the entire legacy could disappear,” she said.
Source: www.moroccoworldnews.com
The United Arab Emirates has recalled its ambassador to Sweden a week after Saudi Arabia took a similar step, a Swedish government source said yesterday.
Last week, Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador to Stockholm after the Swedish foreign minister denounced Saudi Arabia’s flogging of a rights activist which the Kingdom considered “a blatant interference in its internal affairs”.
The Swedish Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the UAE’s decision to recall its ambassador and referred any further questions on the matter to the foreign ministry spokesman who was not immediately available for comment.
Meanwhile, the Emirates News Agency said the UAE’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Swedish ambassador to the United Arab Emirates to deliver a formal letter of protest about Wallström’s remarks against Saudi Arabia.
The agency said Anwar Mohammed Gargash, minister of state for foreign affairs expressed “the United Arab Emirates’ condemnation of the extreme statements made by foreign minister of Sweden in front of the Swedish Parliament on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its judicial system.”
Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com
Less than 24 hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared victory against opponent Isaac Herzog and just days after promising to reject a two-state solution, the Obama administration is vilifying Israel and claims the Jewish State is “marginalizing Arabs.” From the Washington Examiner:
Source: townhall.com
A professor at New York University has been banned from the United Arab Emirates, home to the college’s new Abu Dhabi campus. Andrew Ross, who specializes in labor issues, has been openly critical of the working conditions on UAE construction sites, including art museums like the Louvre, which are largely staffed by migrant labor (see What’s Really Going On at Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island?).
On Monday, Ross was preparing to board a flight at Kennedy International Airport when he was told that the computer had flagged his passport, and that the UAE authorities were not allowing him to enter the country, reports the New York Times. Ross’s spring break trip was to be spent furthering his investigations into construction site conditions in the UAE. He was told that he was barred from travelling to the country due to unspecified security concerns.
Source: news.artnet.com
Art Dubai is a heady mix: big money meets cutting-edge contemporary art and Eastern modernism in the golden bubble of Madinat Jumeirah resort, the fair’s host since its inception in 2007. With 92 galleries, thirty of which are from the region, Art Dubai is, according to its director Antonia Carver, “the largest showcase of artists from the Arab world” globally. And although the art market here has been growing at a rapid pace—due in no small part to the fair itself—the UAE, and Dubai in particular, still has the allure of an emerging marketplace, full to the brim with opportunities for local and international galleries ready to make the effort (see the 2014 report Art Dubai Opens With Steady Sales, Mostly Under $100,000).
“It’s fabulous, it was like finding a home again,” Leila Heller told artnet News. The New York dealer is a bit of a UAE veteran: she has been coming to Art Dubai and its Abu Dhabi counterpart since their launch, and praised Art Dubai’s “curious and inquisitive” collector-base. Heller is now cementing her commitment to Dubai with a new gallery, set to open in Alserkal Avenue’s new development in the fall of 2015 (see Alserkal Avenue Previews Expansion in Dubai).
Source: news.artnet.com
She plays the character of Marlene in new movie, Insurgent and Suki Waterhouse made sure that all eyes were on her when she arrived at the NYC premiere of the movie.
The film is the second instalment of the Divergent franchise and stars Shailene Woodley as leading lady Tris and Miles Teller as co-star Peter.
Suki, 22, looked incredible in a light pink fairytale style gown by Reem Acra which had a plunging cut-out neckline which showed off her assets.
The Burberry model, who has been dating Hollywood heart throb Bradley Cooper for the past two years, looked incredible in the number which had floral lace details and sequins throughout.
The model’s stunning dress left plenty of her slender figure on show with its sexy neckline and cut-out sides, and she accessorised with several sparkling rings.
She wore her long blonde locks down and in a tousled style – and gave her look a dramatic flourish with winged eyeliner tips.
The British beauty, who has been dating Bradley Cooper for the past two years, is joining the Divergent saga for its second film, playing one of Tris’s fellow initiates.
This is one of Suki’s first major movie roles, following on the back of her appearance in Love, Rosie.
The Divergent Series: Insurgent, which also stars Kate Winslet as the evil Jeanine Matthews, will hit cinemas in the US and UK on March 20.
Also in attendance at the premiere was Octavia Spencer, who plays Amity representative Johanna Reyes, and is joining the cast for this movie.
And Maggie Q, who left little to the imagination in her black lace creation, was joined by her fiancé and Stalker co-star Dylan McDermott.
Source: www.albawaba.com
The Israeli prime minister just threw decades of U.S. diplomacy out the window. Now, Washington has an opportunity to finally take a real stand for peace.
Benjamin Netanyahu, who had just a day earlier declared he would never allow a Palestinian state to emerge under his watch – a core tenet of U.S. foreign policy toward Israel and Palestine – won a significant election victory that will allow him to form a right-wing coalition to govern Israel for some years to come
The truth is, no one should be surprised by Netanyahu’s stance or the support he got for it. He has long opposed Palestinian self-determination and preferred perpetual occupation or apartheid instead. In the past, he had declared his government the “most pro-settlement government in history,” referring to the establishment of Israeli colonies in occupied Palestinian territory that fly in the face of the two-state outcome.
The question now is this: How should the U.S. respond, given that Netanyahu cannot even pretend to support the peace agenda, after the statements he made recently confirmed what his actions have been saying all along?
Reports suggested that had Herzog, Netanyahu’s main challenger, been elected, the Obama administration would attempt to quickly reengage in a peace process during the last years of Obama’s presidency and the waning years of 80-year-old Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ life. It would have been the last chance at a two-state solution that John Kerry declared, two years ago, only had two years left to live.
Source: www.msnbc.com
Egyptian forces have been continuous in their work to expand the military buffer zone in Sinai along with the 15 kilometre border with the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Qudsnet reported yesterday.
A Qudsnet reporter said that the Egyptian army has already levelled the houses in Al-Hilwan, Salahuddin, Barahmeh, Al-Jabour and Al-Salam neighbourhoods in Egyptian Rafah to the ground.
“The Egyptian army has almost completed work in the one kilometre military buffer zone along the Egyptian-Gaza borders,” the Qudsnet reporter said, noting that the army continues to destroy hundreds of houses in several places.
The first stage of the military buffer zone, 500-meter-deep inside Sinai, was completed and a sum of $242 million was paid as compensation to 616 citizens who were displaced.
Egyptian media reported that the military buffer zone with the Gaza Strip is meant to stop Palestinians digging tunnels to smuggle food and other necessary items from Egypt because of the eight-year Israeli siege on the Strip.
Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com
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