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Jaouad Radouani - AlJazeeraTalk
 The roots of the modern clash between the East and the West go back to the beginnings of the Palestino-Israeli problem. With the emergence of the Israeli state in 1947, with back up from western powers (Europe and the US), emerged with it what we call the “Palestinian case” with a back up from the eastern nations (Arabo-Islamic states). Since then, The East and the West were newly brought together to the field of battles; a Judaeo-Christian West was clashing with a Muslim East. What is of paramount importance in this clash is the fact that it is mainly and primarily based on religious and economic causes (crusade wars).
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Bilal Randeree - AlJazeeraTalk - Kuwait
 Kuwait’s Deputy Prime Minister Faisal Al-Hajji, Kuwaiti Prime Minister Nasser Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti Prince Nawaf Al-Sabah, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Jordanian King Abdullah, Kuwait’s Amir Sabah Al-Sabah, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, Bosnian President Haris Silajdzic, and many more heads of states and government ministers attended the World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) in Kuwait from 29 April to 1 May 2008. The names and titles were almost as long as the convoy of coaches, luxury petrol guzzlers and police escorts from the Kuwait Sheraton to the Bayan Palace.
Kuwait pledged to donate $100 million towards a fund, aimed at providing basic foods to poor people in Islamic countries. "Kuwait ... is offering an initiative to establish a fund for decent life in Islamic countries to provide basic foodstuff for those who are in need quickly," Kuwaits Amir said during the opening of the fourth WIEF. |
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Mohammed Hashas - AlJazeeraTalk - Oujda, Morocco
 History teaches. History lives. These have been my beliefs since I started to reason with things, with ideas, with people, and with history itself. Nothing should be soon put on shelves for memoriam or decoration only. It should serve as a way of teaching. Old stuff comes to hand one day. One could keep a flower to remember a precious person, or keep score transcripts to remember school glorious days, or keep books for research and leisure reading, etc. So many people keep tokens to remind them of certain stages of time in their life, and by implication one might think that such a token is preserved for its didactic value. However, this is not always the case. One hardly goes beyond the superficial significance of objects, be they mere objects or events when it comes to history.
When no reasonably telling and profound link is made between a particular event in the past with one’s presence in the world, history for such person is dumb, dull, and useless, while it should be looked at quite the opposite way. When one turns his back to his history, not much should be expected from him. One should avail himself of his personal past as well as that of his people, and world history at large. One is never able to start from scratch.
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Nazek AbuRahma - AlJazeeraTalk - Gaza
Many days have passed since the stopping of education programs took place in the Palestinian universities. Finally, the Islamic University in Gaza and Alazaher University have gone back to continue their study program and have been trying to present more facilities for students to continue the education process. As a result, it
seems that the Palestinian students will enter another challenge under the siege imposed by the Israeli occupation.
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Jaouad Radouani - AlJazeeraTalk - Morocco
 Few years ago, on the 30 September 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published islamophobic and blashpemous cartoons that depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad (PBUH) offensively. A wave of protests and riots rose at the time in defense of the Muslim religion, and was followed by series of administrative resignations and appologies from the Danish part.
Today, Geert Wilder, a Dutch film producer manged to come out with a 15 minutes movie that depicts Islam the same way Jyllands-Posten cartoonists did. The title of the movie is “Fitna”. It begins with verses from the Koran being recited and ends the same way. Most of the content of the movie is about what we may call Islamic focus on Jihadism. The movie is more like a publicity show rather than a real work of art. It is made of images that were carefully selected from different net sources and archives, and it conveys a sense of incompleteness of its content.
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Nour Abu-Aisha - Aljazeeratalk - Gaza
 As he Laughed, he cried. He shaded most of his tears behind the camera, he took photographs of the martyrs’ mothers and the martyrs of children, and he knew from the life five things "joy, sadness, success, reminiscence and love".
Fadl Shana'a (23 years), a Palestinian journalist and photographer in the international news agent (Reuters), was killed in middle of Gaza Strip (Johr Deek) when an Israel's missile targeted his car during the performance of his work.
"By Mistake"!!
The last view that Fadl's camera could take was, a tank of missiles, launched hundreds of meters away from his camera and went straight into in to the his chest after shatterring the protective jacket which failed to do its job. |
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Nazek Abu Rahma - AlJazeeraTalk - Gaza
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Mohammed Hashas - AlJazeeraTalk - Oujda, Morocco
 When the Polish/French figurative artist Balthazar Klossowski de Rola (1908-2001) said ‘painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language,’ he was right.
My admiration and full respect for self-made artists was fuelled when I visited the exposition of art Oujda American Corner organized on 28-29 March, 2008. Two artists participated in this exposition: Mr Abderahmane Zenati and Mrs Nouria Boukhnifrate.
After having made a tour around the exposed paintings in the room, I asked the director of the center, Mr Mohamed Bendaha, about the painter – because at first I thought it was just one! He asked me if I am not acquainted especially with this name: Abderrahmane Zennati, a Oujdi international painter. ‘Ah, sorry, I never heard about him,’ I said. ‘He is a painter, a writer, and a lover of music and theatre. He is a renowned artist,’ the director who guided me in a second, more scrutinizing tour, told me. What is of interest in all this is that the artist is from Oujda, from the region, but I never knew him, and sure not many know him still. |
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Mustapha ABAJI - AlJazeeraTalk -Casablanca
 By all accounts, the press freedom in Morocco is certainly going through a desperate plight. Lately, the Moroccan authorities have launched a spate of clampdown measures against the independent press corp.
To begin with, Al-Massae daily newspaper, the largest-selling newspaper in Morocco, was lately sentenced to 45000 Dollar for libel and defamation of character against 4 deputy prosecutor. The case goes back to the last November 2007, when Al-Massae made an exclusive report on a so-called “homosexual weeding party “ in the small northern town of ‘’Kssar Elkebir. The daily accused a homosexual network as the mastermind behind the suspicious party, including a deputy prosecutor that the paper preferred not to mention his name. Many civil society activists and human wrights’ militants announced that an international Madrid-based committee for supporting the independent press in Morocco was founded. The committee is composed of authors, artists and human wrights’ activists, mainly from Morocco and abroad. The committee is preparing to launch a worldwide campaign with the object of defending Al-Massae ‘case. |
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Jaouad Radouani - AlJazeeraTalk - Morrocco
 The North Moroccan city, Melilla, is a city which is up till now still seized by Spanish colonial powers. The time of conquest of the city goes back to the year 1497. Since then, the Moroccan government never put a hand on the city; it always had been out of its control and out of every policy decided about in Morocco.
Today, the city, the same as many cities in the world, is still seized. It is ruled over completely by Spaniards who dictate every detail about the city’s destiny. But yet the city is being changed by the Spanish authorities to a western city in an attempt to completely Christianise and Westernise it. There is an ongoing will to let any Moroccan/Oriental cultural aspect defuse on the city.
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