Dear Readers,
As usual, the latest Qantara.de newsletter tells you what's new on
the portal.
You might also want to have a look at our new dossier on the dialogue
between Israel and Palestine. We highlight a variety of initiatives
launched by civil society organisations and players in the Middle
East. Here's the link…
http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_softlink.php/_c-726/i.html
Best wishes,
Lewis Gropp
Qantara.de
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Politics
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***The Day that Brought the War Back to Life: Is the Past Catching up
with Lebanon?***
Ever since the recent outbreak of violence, Lebanon has been stricken
with fear of a new civil war. The writer Hassan Dawud is arts editor
of Al-Mustaqbal, the newspaper whose offices were set on fire. Hassan
Dawud reports
http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-978/i.html
***Political Crisis in Pakistan: Opportunistic Intrigues***
The Muslim League's attempts to quit the government as a protest
against the People's Party's refusal to reinstate the judges sacked
by President Musharraf last year have been rejected by Pakistan's PM.
A commentary by Thomas Bärthlein
http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-977/i.html
***Israel's 60th Anniversary: Success Story and Security-Related
Challenges***
Security policy and demographic processes are the greatest challenges
facing Israeli democracy today. An analysis by Martin Beck
http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-976/i.html
***Israel at 60: A Home Found, a Home Lost***
Avital Ben Chorin was born in the German city of Eisenach, but found
a new home in Israel. The Bedouin Abu Sitta family, on the other
hand, lost its home when the state of Israel was created. Bettina
Marx on the different emotions 1948 stirs up in different people
http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-975/i.html
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Society
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***Egypt's Internet Radio Station "Horytna": A Small Insurrection***
Finding that the Egyptian press seldom provided independent sources
of information or reported issues of interest to young people, a
group of young journalists in Cairo decided to start their own radio
station. Sarah Mersch has more
http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-762/i.html
***An Anti-Biography of the Founder of Islam: The Mohamed Myth
The Dutch Arabist Hans Jansen has ventured to write a biography of
the prophet Mohammed. His initially plausible criticism of the
religious sources quickly turns into a sweeping condemnation,
however, according to Islam expert Stefan Weidner
http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-760/i.html
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Culture
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***The Bedouin Jerry Can Band: Preserving the Bedouin Heritage***
The sounds of the major ethnic group of Saharan nomads remains
relatively unknown in the West. Now for the first time Bedouin
musicians from the Sinai Peninsula are taking their music out across
the Egyptian borders. Stefan Franzen caught up with the Bedouin Jerry
Can Band at a gig in Marseilles
http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-310/_nr-528/i.html
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Welle, the Goethe Institute, the Federal Center for Political
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Sign the Petition : Release the Arrested University Teachers Immediately : An Appeal to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh
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Daily Star publishes an interview with Mukto-Mona
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Mukto-Mona Celebrates 5th Anniversary
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Mukto-Mona Celebrates Earth Day:
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Kansat Uprising : A Special Page from Mukto-Mona
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MM Project : Grand assembly of local freedom fighters at Raumari
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German Bangla Radio Interviews Mukto-Mona Members:
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Mukto-Mona Celebrates Darwin Day:
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