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AMW media interview with Patrick Cockburn: Covering Iraq
Friday, March 25, 2005 (446 reads)
Arab Media Watch member Omar Waraich interviews Patrick Cockburn, Iraq correspondent for the Independent who spoke at AMW's recent event entitled Bad News from Babylon: 2 Years of Occupation & Insurgency in Iraq.
It has been said that journalism is the first draft of history. In the case of Iraq, no single draft could possibly be agreed upon by all observers today. At times, one is incredulous at the vast disparities to be found in accounts of the war.
The aptly named Frontline club in London is a favourite haunt of war-weary foreign correspondents. Its walls are festooned with all manner of memorabilia: from Baghdad and Kabul license plates, to Osama Bin Laden t-shirts, to the front page of the September 12, 2001 edition of the New York Times. I met there with veteran Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn to discuss his experience reporting the war over the last two years, the manner in which reportage from Iraq is fraught with difficulties, distortions and delusion, and his take on the Anglo-American adventure.
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Perfect crimes off Gaza's coast
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 (481 reads)
By Arab Media Watch correspondent Yasser Baraka.
At Gaza Strip's sea as on its land, one finds a surprising similarity between the testimonies of fishermen and residents stopped at checkpoints. The Israeli soldiers are the same soldiers, the orders are the same orders and the harassment is the same harassment. However, if you get shot at in the middle of the sea, there is no escape and no witnesses - a perfect crime.
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Summit-host Algeria bids to raise profile on Arab stage
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 (438 reads)
Agence France Presse
March 21, 2005
ALGIERS - Oil-rich Algeria will use its role as host to this week's Arab League summit to put behind it more than a decade of bloody civil war and become a prime mover in the Arab world.
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Arab Media Watch interview with Iraqi Sheikh Hadi al-Khalisi
Friday, March 18, 2005 (477 reads)
By Arab Media Watch director Tahrir Swift.
It was in a cafe in central London that a group of Iraqis sat around a table on a cold February evening to speak to Sheikh Hadi al-Khalisi a founding member of the Iraqi National Foundation Congress. Al Khalisi called for Iraqi unity and Islamic unity to confront the 'new Hulegu', referring to the destruction of 13th century Baghdad at the hands of the Mongol hordes.
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Wadi Al Salqa: prison within a prison
Sunday, March 13, 2005 (447 reads)
By Arab Media Watch correspondent Yasser Baraka.
"The truce does not exist here. No one can guarantee his own safety," 69-year-old Fahmi Abu Mugheiseeb said, in his own way of breaking the ice when AMW visited his house.
What seems evident upon setting foot in this isolated place is that Wadi Al Salqa, southeast of the central Gaza Strip town of Deir El Balah, is slowly dying.
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Did Syria really do it?
Thursday, March 03, 2005 (464 reads)
By Tim Llewellyn, Arab Media Watch patron and former BBC Middle East correspondent.
On September 14, 1982, the President-elect of Lebanon, Bashir Gemayel, died under the pile of rubble to which a bomb had reduced one of his Phalangist Party offices in East Beirut. The Israeli Army occupied half of Lebanon at the time, and I found it impossible to find a single Lebanese who did not think Israeli agents responsible for the assassination.
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Face up to the facts on the ground
Wednesday, March 02, 2005 (482 reads)
Britain and Europe are funding Israel's occupation and expansion, writes Karma Nabulsi, Arab Media Watch advisor, research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and former PLO representative.
March 1, 2005
The Guardian
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Young in the Arab world: Morocco
Tuesday, March 01, 2005 (455 reads)
By Mounira Chaieb
March 1, 2005
BBC News
 Rabat, Morocco's capital, is a very quiet, clean city, of grand old buildings. But it is surrounded by slums.
From its position in North Africa - 15 kilometres across the sea from Spain - Rabat is on a major African migration route to Europe.
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Darfur, another failure of the international community
Tuesday, March 01, 2005 (426 reads)
By Arjan El Fassed, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada.
The debate on Darfur is in danger of sounding like a historical exercise. No one should forget that people are still being killed, still being forced to flee their homes, still suffering each and every day. Though the Security Council has "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security," it has not been able to address and resolve this conflict. No party in this crisis has taken adequate measures to ensure the cessation of violence against civilians in spite of the many assurances made. Over 20 months since they were burned out of their villages and after numerous promises from the Government of Sudan and world leaders, people's lives are still under daily threat.
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