Reality show allows Palestinians to vote for new ‘president’
When the Palestinian TV station, Maan News, called for participants for a new reality TV show, an overwhelming 1200 Palestinians ages 20 to 35 signed up. They were not dreaming of a record deal, of getting a contract with a model agency, of marrying a millionaire or of managing a high-class restaurant. Instead their ambitions were nothing less than to become ‘The President’.
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Opinion
Your Bottled Water, Where the Sun don’t Shine
When I was around twelve or thirteen my family took me to Acapulco in Mexico. While there we all got things that…
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Opinion
The Bombing of Al-Bara
Remnant of images; you barely see them through heavy tears. You wonder if you ever had a memory, if you ever had…
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Feature
Freedom for some: Muslims struggle for equal rights in Europe
When Sharif Eissa opened his kebab shop in this small town in northeastern Italy, he didn’t expect it would…
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News
At Anna Lindh Mediterranean Forum participants call for more action
Diversity, dialogue and universal values were major themes on the agenda of the Mediterranean Forum in Marseille,…
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Feature
Being twenty in a post-Soviet society
How is it today to be a twenty-year old in a post-Soviet society? EMAJ reporter Nevena Borisova met three young…
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News
Satisfaction and fears after Fayyad’s resignation
Last Saturday Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad submitted his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas, who…
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