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When Gamal Abdel Nasser led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, it may surprise people that it was the Egyptian singer, Leila Murad, a Mizrahi Jew, who was chosen as the Revolution’s official singer. Murad was chosen over the much-loved Egyptian singer and darling of the Arab world, Umm Kalthoum. The fact is that Mizrahi Jews — Arab Jews — have …

Liberal spaces within Europe have brought many more Muslim women out of their old confinements Europe is at risk of being ‘colonised’ by its Muslim populations, argue a number of bestselling new books, acclaimed across the political spectrum. How has such hysteria gone unchallenged? Pankaj Mishra on the ‘Eurabia-mongers’ A number of new books are promoting the idea that Europe …

Mick Napier, Chair of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign 21 March 2008 A Palestinian killed eight Israeli students in a settler movement training centre, in retaliation for Israel’s massacre of over a hundred Gazans, mostly civilians. Hundreds of the seminary students later chanted “Death to the Arabs” at the gates of their seat of learning.[1] This was somehow missed by …

TEHRAN (Dispatches) — UN atomic agency head Mohamed ElBaradei said here on Sunday that remaining differences between Iran and the world powers could be resolved through diplomacy after the two sides held talks in Geneva last week as he announced that UN experts will inspect Iran’s newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant on Oct. 25. “The relation between Iran and the …

TEHRAN (Press TV) — The UN nuclear agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei said here Sunday that regional and global stability can only be achieved through total nuclear disarmament. “I have always taken the view that the world would only be safe when we have a world free from nuclear weapons,” ElBaradei said in a joint press conference with the head of …

President Obama has reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections, three officials familiar with the understanding said. The officials, who spoke on the condition that they not be named because they were discussing private conversations, said Mr. Obama pledged to maintain the agreement when he first hosted …