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Lebanese
labor
failure
Lebanon by far enjoys the most
democratic system among Arab countries when it comes to
freedom of expression and assembly.
In
the only country where an opposition demonstration can legally
go out to the streets, and amid a deteriorating socioeconomic
situation and a debt-ridden economy, merely 3,000 Lebanese
demonstrators marched from the Barbir to the Mathaf area in
Beirut to protest their government’s fiscal policies.
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NEWS & REPORTS
NGO publishes report on the poor,
the market
by Mirna
Shidrawi
Social watch
(SW) is a watchdog umbrella organization of a number of NGOs
in more than 60 countries working on poverty, tender equity
and human rights, according to Graciela Dede, an official from
the group.
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EDITORIALS
Iraqi resistance, Saddam style
The style of the
so-called Iraqi resistance indicates that those behind it are
more than mere amateurs. The selection of their targets put
them far beyond pan-Arabist or Iraqi nationals. These are
criminals. Too bad the Arab media, as always, fails to notice
the presumably “justified criminal behavior” against
occupation as it restricts itself to highlighting American
brutality and disgruntled Iraqis.
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Op-Ed
Late
Edward Said had a mind of his own
By Ghia Osseiran
(NEW YORK)
With Edward Said
having been a member of the Columbia faculty since 1963 and
Rashid Khalidi Professor of Modern Middle East History now on
board, I was welcomed to “Bir Zeit on the Hudson” on my first
day here at Columbia.
Let censorship
history be forgotten
By Samer Mazloum
(BEIRUT)
When I first
approached editors of this publication to write a piece on
Outlook as a reaction to AUB’s newspaper first editorial, they
told me they would get back to me. They never did. When I
heard AUB president John Waterbury citing an Outlook issue
dating to 2000, which highlighted cheating in the university,
I felt I should write about how Outlook’s role has been going
down the drain.
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FEATURES
NDU’s
Skiing Society becomes NGO
By Badih Chayban
(BEIRUT)
The Skiing
Society, a club that kicked off a year ago at Notre Dame
University (NDU), decided to become a public non-profit
association that organizes sports events on a national level,
according to the club’s president, Joseph Salameh.
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HISTORY & CULTURE
Mandela
proved struggle could be too hard, too long
“The voyage of
freedom is always worthwhile.” These words have been the bread
and butter of a great man who strived to ensure that justice
and equality reigned supreme.
Syrian
officer retells how military coups dominated nation’s history
An officer in
the Syrian Army, who was a coconspirator in the coup that
ended the rule of late Syrian President Husni al-Zaim, was
also a friend of late Syrian President Adib Sheishakly and a
former strong ally of the Baghdad Pact leadership and the
Syrian Social National Party (SSNP), has finally disclosed his
experience in a book entitled Days that I Have Lived.
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Youth News
Do Muslim immigrants have the
right to wear headscarves?
by Kamal
Sanjakdar (ALGIERS)
Germany’s
decision to force veiled Muslim girls out of public schools
and Italy’s controversy over the hanging of crosses inside
classrooms unveiled inherent intolerance among the nations
that have long styled themselves as secular.
Professor
plagiarism threatens academic integrity
Despite the
strict rules private universities in the region try to enforce
to protect intellectual property, the number and ways of
violations are rapidly increasing.
Students slam
privatization
By Mohammed Trad
(SYDNEY)
Sydney
University staff and students chock the streets during a
protest in Sydney in late October. Some 40,000 academic and
general staff from Australia's 38 public universities went on
a day-long strike following government moves to link higher
education funding to industrial conditions.
PYO holds
exhibition for young talents
The youth wing
of Chouf MP Walid Jumblatt’s Progressive Socialist Party (PSP)
held an exhibition for the artwork of five Arab artists at the
American University of Beirut (AUB).
Lebanese
Leftists fight over Nestle-sponsored AUB concert
By Mirna
Shidrawi (BEIRUT)
A concert by the
leftist Shahhadin ya Baladna youth band, sponsored by Nescafe,
caused a stir among the rank and file of the young leftist
movement in Beirut.
Alternative, Communist Students agree to issue supplement
In a step that
aims at reflecting the benefits of cooperation between
Lebanese leftist factions, the Alternative team said in a
statement late last month that it expected to publish a
supplement for Communist Students (CS), a group of young
communists most of whom expelled from the Lebanese Communist
Party.
Hamade
slams political bickering, says it adversely affects economy
Economy and
Trade Minister Marwan Hamade slammed political bickering
between the nation’s top official saying it adversely affected
the economy.
Leftist
groups boycott labor strike, say protest was politicized
Leftist groups
and Communist Students, a group of independent young
communists, joined other senior leftist figures in boycotting
the all-out strike and protest held in late October claiming
that the activity was politicized and benefited some
politicians at the expense of others.
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LIGHT NEWS
The Matrix
Revolution in theatres today
Released six
months after the second sequel, Matrix Reloaded, the Matrix
Revolutions is considered a revolution in movie making.
‘Well, you
try to reconstruct Iraq,’ says US Defensive Department
Responding to
recent criticism of reconstruction efforts in Iraq, the U.S.
Defensive Department released a statement to the public Monday
suggesting that perhaps they could do better, since they're
obviously so smart. Courtesy of www.theonion.com
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