This is a guest post written by my friend Saed Karzoun, and translated from its original Arabic by Amani Omari. The article in its original Arabic can be found at 7iber.com. On my typical day-to-day life, I hang out with a group of young boys and girls like myself; and I realized their growing temptation […]
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Obituary: Le Journal
Something is rotten in the kingdom of Morocco proclaims Issandr El Amrani in a Guardian piece about the closure of Moroccan magazine Le Journal Hebdomadaire. Though El Amrani notes that the Le Journal case is only one indicator, something is rotten, indeed. The magazine’s offices were liquidated after a commercial appeals court declared that Le […]
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How the U.S. Censors Arabs
In my spare time, I’ve been doing a lot of talking to activists and reporters about two issues that are getting very little coverage in the U.S., despite both being facets of U.S. policy. The first is H.R. 2278, which eatbees has done a better job than I ever could of explaining here. For those […]