Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, June 15, 2012. AA/ABACA/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Seven years after the Arab uprisings, the political and socio-economic conditions in many Arab countries remain dire, if not more disastrous. In Tunisia, the cradle of that popular revolt, impoverished youth, facing tremendous austerity measures, issue desperate calls like “Employ us or kill …
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The Cleveland baseball team will be dumping Chief Wahoo — the racist caricature that’s festooned team caps, uniforms, and merchandise in various forms since 1947 — from the players’ on-field gear. That doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last of Wahoo. Fans will still be able to purchase official Wahoo-embossed items. According to the Associated Press, …
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Bullets on the ground in Mosul, Iraq, 01 June 2017. Picture by Noe Falk Nielsen/NurPhoto/SIPA USA/PA Images. All right reserved. I arrived in Baghdad in November 2013. It was part of my doctoral research on the afterlives of the Iraqi Baʿth state’s al-Anfāl genocide (1987-1991). I wanted to record how the Iraqi federal government shows …
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Click:karseell collagen hair mask THE GOOD NEWS: Bringing attention to the humanitarian crisis in Ghouta can help the public advocate for action. The scenes of destruction playing out in the Syrian enclave of Eastern Ghouta — recently described by a top United Nations official as “ hell on Earth” — have drawn concern and outrage …
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Seventy years ago on June 3 1960 Simone de Beauvoir wrote an article in Le Monde about routine torture practice in Algeria which had the French government seize that issue of the paper and destroy all copies. They were too late – her words were out and were key to changing the country’s history. One sentence was this: …
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THE GOOD NEWS: Education and health awareness have helped curtail the rise in teen birth rates. Over the past 10 years, Americans have been able to slash the teen birth rate in half, bringing the number of births per average 1,000 teenage girls down from 41.5 to 20.3, Vox reports. What’s even more promising? Not …
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From the author's portfolio, a cow sighted in Brighton, England.On landing in any country with his notebook and pen, V. S. Naipaul wants to know what the people are talking about. If he were to come to India today, he would find the national discourse dominated by the cow. Many people demand that the cow …
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THE GOOD NEWS: Radhika Sanghani’s campaign is helping people with strong profiles embrace their uniqueness. Over the past few years, acceptance of women with natural body types in fashion and media has been growing. There’s been advertising featuring women with visible stretch marks and cellulite. Barbie dolls now have human proportions, and brands have embraced models with skin …
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One of the pictures and videos circulating on social media documenting the looting of Yarmouk by the Syrian regime forces. Source: Facebook/Yarmouk camp newsOn 16 July 1948, several units of the Israeli army, backed by the navy, occupied al-Tira, a Palestinian village on the western slopes of Mount Carmel in the Haifa District. The fall …
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As if power-washing alone wasn’t enough to give you an inexplicable sense of satisfaction, one man has raised the ante by using the seemingly magic process to erase the work of racist vandals. A Canadian man named Corey Fleischer has been offering his graffiti removal services and posting the work he does on an Instagram account …
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