|
|
|
| ADIL - Almost Dawn In Libya - Photographers for Reconciliation |
|
|
On February 24, 2011, photojournalist André Liohn arrived in Benghazi - after having witnessed the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions and the Bahraini Uprising - and stayed in Libya, travelling across the country and covering the eastern and western frontlines alike. Now he wants his work to help out Libyans, where possible, in coming to terms with their history.
|
|
|
|
| Middle Eastern States Showcase Heritage at London Book Fair - By Karen Dabrowska |
|
|
China was the market focus at this year’s London Book Fair held at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre this week that had over 1500 exhibitors from 57 countries.
|
|
|
|
| Middle Eastern States Showcase Heritage at London Book Fair |
|
|
China was the market focus at this year’s London Book Fair held at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre this week that had over 1500 exhibitors from 57 countries.
|
|
|
|
| A Story of a Dedicated Indian |
|
|
As a Libyan, I am exceedingly proud of having Mr. Mohammad Azeemullah, an Indian appointed as a Staff Member at Almergib University, College of Education- Zliten, Department of English, as one of the contributors to the success of the academic institutions in Libya and as an intellectual, thinker and an analyst concerned with the educational, political and cultural affairs of the Libyan society.
|
|
|
|
| Valuing Food – By Maryam Hedayat |
|
|
It is known to all that survival of human being depends upon air, water and food. Air and water are the vital necessities of life. Food is also our necessity, but in addition, it is also concerned with our wishes and cravings . Food is a substance that people or animals eat to sustain life and growth.
|
|
|
|
| Poem: "Prisoner in a thought” |
|
|
A day passed by so fast
Felt so much along its hours
We wished it would longer last
|
|
|
|
| UN-Arab League Envoy Receives Syria's Response On Plan to End Crisis |
|
|
The Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, Kofi Annan, Tuesday received a formal response from the Syrian Government on his six-point proposal to end the ongoing violence in the Middle Eastern country, according to a statement issued by his spokesperson.
|
|
|
|
| Nigeria Suicide Attack Leaves 11 Dead |
|
|
A day after 11 people were killed in a suicide bombing and related violence at a catholic church, Sunday night in Chugwi village south of Jos city in central Nigeria, unknown gunmen shot dead three Christians an official has reported.
|
|
|
|
| Activists' Trial in Egypt Begins Sunday |
|
|
Forty-three so-called democracy activists, among them 19 Americans, go on trial Sunday before an Egyptian court on charges of receiving illicit foreign funding in a case that will test Egypt's relations with the United States a year after the toppling of forme President and US ally Hosni Mubarak.
|
|
|
|
| UN-Backed Forum to Discuss Drought in Horn of Africa |
|
|
Government representatives, climatologists, agricultural experts, disaster risk managers and others will gather in Rwanda next week to discuss early action in case of a possible third consecutive year of drought in the Horn of Africa.
|
|
|
|
| Tripoli and Benghazi: A New Future for the Past |
|
|
Libya’s greatest archaeological treasures have been eroded, compromised and destroyed without record mainly by government-funded development during the Gaddafi era. Despite his optimism of a bright future for Libya’s past, Dr Paul Bennett, head of the Society for Libyan Studies mission is very concerned that this is still the situation today.
|
|
|
|
| Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam |
|
|
“As you circumambulate and move closer to the kaaba you feel like a small stream merging into a big river. You have been transformed into a particle that is gradually melting and disappearing. That is love at its absolute peak”. This description of the ecstasy of a Muslim pilgrim accompanying a two-minute black and white film greets visitors to the world's first exhibition on hajj - the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca at the British Museum.
|
|
|
|
| Celebrity Singer, Actress Whitney Houston Dies Aged 48 |
|
|
Popular US singing star and actress Whitney Houston died in her room at a hotel in Los Angeles where she had been staying as a guest, on the eve of the Grammy Awards, at the age of 48.
|
|
|
|
| Mexico Court Says Suspects Twice Tried to Rescue Gaddafi son, Saadi |
|
|
Prosecutors in Mexico City said that as dictator Muammar Gaddafi's crumbled last year in Libya, there had been two plots to rescue his third son, Saadi, who is currently living in the Western African country of Niger, and take him to Mexico.
|
|
|
|
| UNHCR: Mediterranean Proved Deadly Stretch of Water for 1,500 for Migrants in 2011 |
|
|
According to the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, more than 1,500 people drowned or went missing while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe in 2011, making 2011 the deadliest year for this region since UNHCR started to record these statistics in 2006.
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
