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Africa
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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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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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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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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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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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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Mohammed Hashas - AlJazeeraTalk - Oujda, Morocco
 The Moroccan University is in March but not in a march. Yesterday morning I had something to do at the university, at the School of Humanities, at 8.30 am. What I had in mind is that classes for the undergraduates have already started or at least were supposed to start that day for the second semester, Spring semester. Lo!
Exams for the first semester seem to have taken about two months, not like the classes which did not take much! Officially, university studies start in the 20s of September, but this year was different: Ramadan, the sacred month, coincided with the start of the academic year, so students chose to stay home, and enjoy the togetherness atmosphere, with nice meals!! After Ramadan, the students had to see their families. So, they found themselves taking more time at home than at the university, where they were supposed to be. After few weeks, which did not make three complete months in all, the students had to ‘boycott’ classes for few days before exams; they needed time for concentration, for revision – revision of what? They barely started!!
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