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Bilal Randeree - AlJazeeraTalk
 The former Malay kingdom of Patani is composed of what are now the three Thai provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat. They are home to 1.8 million Muslims or 80 percent of the populace. The most that people from other countries know about this region is that it has a majority Muslim population in a country which is overwhelmingly Buddhist.
Like many of the communities in Southeast Asia, its rulers and then its people embraced Islam and this led them into various societal and behavioural norms that differentiated them from non-Muslim people. Diet, dress and language were all affected, for example.
Thus, The General Union of the Patani Revolutionary Students held a Patani cultural day at the University of Damascus on Saturday 26 July 2008. The event, which showcased the dress, music, language, dance and martial arts of the Patani people, was attended by university students from many different countries.
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Mohammed Hashas - AlJazeeraTalk - Oujda, Morocco
 With great sorrow I received the news of the death of the contemporary Egyptian, Arab and Moslem scholar Dr Abdelwahab Almassiri (1938-2008). My sincere condolences to his family, to the Arab and Moslem world, and to humanity.
Almassiri was a moderate scholar who knew what he was doing. Saying few words about him is not enough, but for memoriam I dare to do that here. I first heard of him during a three days international symposium on Thought and Politics organized at Mohamed I University in Oujda, Morocco, in March 2005. It was an opportunity to listen to the deceased and to a number of renowned Arab and Moslem scholars and researchers. Since then Almassiri has become my ‘intellectual friend,’ because I respect and like his beliefs that are founded on ethics, identity, and are most importantly humane.
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Yousef aljoneidi - AlJazeeraTalk - Malaysia
 Abdullah Badawi the Malaysian Prime Minister and his deputy, Najib Razak, have agreed on the proper timing for a leadership change.
Abdullah has been under pressure to resign from his post after the governing Barisan Nasional's dismal election performance in the general elections in March. For Brisan Nasional, the last election carries its worst results in 40 years, losing its two-thirds majority in the federal parliament and control of several states. The election was widely seen as a referendum on the rule of Abdullah.
The pressure increased after former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad announced his withdrawal from United Malays National Organization (UMNO). He further urged UMNO members including elected representatives to quit as one group to show no confidence in Abdullah’s leadership.
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Rana Elmnenshawy - AlJazeeraTalk - Cairo
 Brave New World is written by Aldous Huxley. He was born in 1894, in Surrey, England. His parents were extremely intellectual, and living in such an atmosphere, he was very well educated, at home and later at Eton. Unfortunately, Huxley had an eye disease that left him almost blind.
Almost most of his works, deal with the clash that takes place between the interests of the society and those of the society. This dispute reached its peak in his novel, Brave New World, published in 1932.
In his extremely satirical Brave New World, Huxley, gives us a picture of what kind of life would be in the future. Being of course a writer living among different wars and conflicts, his image of the future wouldn't be so rosy, cheerful, optimistic nor positive one. So, in brief, Brave New World, stands for a dystopia (compare it with Utopia- The ideal city). |
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Alaa Malhas - AlJazeeraTalk - Beirut
 She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005, and a distinguished practitioner in the field of women’s rights in the Arab world. Haifa Abu Ghazaleh is a woman like many who strives towards gender equality. She is a woman who worked all her life through, in achieving her goals.
Abu Ghazaleh held several prominent positions as a starter such as, the Advisor to the Ministry, and the General Director for Foreign Relations at the Ministry of Education in Jordan. Moving to, the Arab Region Focal Point for the United Nations for the NGO forum on Women in Beijing 1995, where she won the national elections as the President of the General Federation of Jordanian Women in 1993, and last but not least reaching Unifem. Based in Jordan, Abu Ghazaleh is a Regional Programme Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Arab States office. And the work she does to further goals and aspirations is primarily undertaken through her position, a post she held since 1998.
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Mohammed HASHAS and Mustapha ABAJ - AlJazeeraTalk - Morocco
 Though each of us thinks of Palestine in solitude, this time we would like to think of it together because it is for everybody and it deserves the attention of everybody, be him/her a Jew, a Christian, or Muslim. We should not say before 1948, rather it is before 1892, the world, especially the Islamic world, was not in discomfort about the situation of Alquds, Jerusalem, because it was in peace within the Ottoman Empire. The majority of the Muslims lived in harmony with both the Jewish and Chritian minority. They all worshipped one God together, though differently. |
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Mohammed Hashas, Oujda - AlJazeeraTalk - Morocco
 I intended to cite this short article for publication before the release of Aljazeera cameraman from Guantanamo clutches, but luckily Sami is free now to read Sarah’s words and her support for his cause. The article is written by Sarah Benmoussa, a 17 years old Moroccan high school student whom I have been tutoring in English for nearly a year now. She has always shown unrivalled interest in Arab and Islamic issues, and has always struck her class-mates with genuine ideas. I could have written few words myself about Sami, but to find a younger voice doing that at a time when our youth hardly think and care for national and world issues convinced me to let this female and young voice express her ideas. And since Aljazeeratalk is by the Arab youth and for the world, let us hear what Sarah has in mind. Her words speak well for her.
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Bayan Itani - Aljazeera Talk - Beirut
 Not only did General Michelle Suleiman move out of his house at Fayyadiya to Ba’abda Palace on Monday, but also many of the Lebanese citizens moved out to fill the streets of Beirut and celebrate the country’s victory. On Monday the 26th of May two big festivals took place, the first in Southern suburb of Beirut where Hezballah celebrated the eighth memoir to the victory of the resistance in South Lebanon, and the second in Downtown Beirut.
The 11th of March coalition called for a ceremony in Downtown Beirut to celebrate the new treaty between Lebanese leaders of different parties and the elections of a president. The ceremony was scheduled at 7 P.M. in the presence of many Lebanese known artists. On the way to Downtown, there was a timid presence of people on the streets. Not surprisingly, it was the time when Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was talking in the other ceremony. Often, there were people sitting on circles on the paved sides of the streets listening to Nasrallah’s speech through their car radios.
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Bilal Randeree - AlJazeeraTalk - Paris
 May 17, 2008- Thousands of French filled the streets, carrying placards and banners, singing songs and shouting slogans. This is Paris, May 2008, 40 years after the social revolution known as “May 68” shook France. The uprisings in the 60s saw a series of student protests and general strikes that caused the eventual collapse of the French government.
One could have easily mistaken the protest to be one of those marking the strike in Paris, by thousands of teachers and public sector workers, to protest against job cuts and education reform. But if one listened closely and read the banners, it was clear that this protest was in support of the Palestinian people.
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Alaa Malhas - AlJazeeraTalk - Beirut
 Ever since I came to Beirut, Lebanon I used to love the nightlife. I used to hang out with my friends, go clubbing, etc… In general, Beirut was merely about its nightlife. Or at least it WAS about its nightlife until that specific date, the date that changed my view towards the ‘night’. May 7, 2008 was that date. ‘Oh my Gosh’ was the word that took over my mind.
It started as a normal day for Beirut, or actually come to think of it, there was a strike that was done by the labor union against the daily rising of the living cost without decent wages. So my friend called me so she can come over, since we’re both students at the Lebanese American University, studying Journalism, and living alone in Beirut.
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