Fayza Ahmed, often hailed as ‘The Nightingale of the East,’ was a revered Syrian-Egyptian artist known for her substantial contributions to the realms of singing and the arts. Born in Sidon, Lebanon in 1934 to a Syrian father and a…
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Palestinians Will Remember How the World Failed Them
Ten thousand Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombs in less than four weeks. Nearly half of those killed are children, many of whom were too young to understand what was happening, why the ground shook, why the sky fell. Thousands of other men, women and children are under the rubble of what the UN Secretary General has called a 'graveyard for children'. Desperate fathers have been filmed crying for their trapped sons and daughters…
Two years ago, my then-78-year-old Egyptian teita (grandmother) was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer. Today, she is not only…
As one of the most violent episodes of the conflict between Palestine and Israel unfolds, the world watches with bated…
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