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The Middle East as you don't know it. #TurbanTimes

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In honour of this important day, we’ve decided to list our top 10 picks for stories from our Women in Focus section.

Happy International Women’s Day 2019!

#TurbanTimes #BalanceforBetter #IWD2019

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"My mom is a #Palestinian and I cannot wait to get rid of her. Do you want me to let you into #Lebanon?”

Ibaa Abu Layya was looking forward to a holiday vacation in #Beirut, but ended up being detained, deported, and blacklisted.

Read her story: https://t.co/jsV6KS9dxJ

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Labour Day in Lebanon: This is how domestic workers celebrated.

From our archives (2018). By @sarahlpages.

#TurbanTimes #InternationalWorkersDay #LabourDay2019 #WorkersDay

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Last year, on #LabourDay I wrote about migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, who suffer tremendous abuse as part of an industry worth more than $44m per year. #WorkersDay2019 https://t.co/YxYROjWET9

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"It wasn’t us against them, but an evil which as a people Armenians have faced–whether we’ve ever overcome it is still questionable."

By @hragv. #ArmenianGenocide #TurbanTimes

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"Netanyahu is the real face of Israel, and what he said about the citizenship and nation-state issues is essentially correct."

Latest opinion piece by Jonathan Ofir.

#TurbanTimes #Israel #Netanyahu #RotemSela

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“Now all of these accomplishments that we’ve paid for with our blood are at risk”

@AtahiMariam is the last of 4 @FreeWomenWriter voices we've shared this week expressing their stories & concerns in light of #US-#Taliban talks.

#Afghanistan #WomensRights

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Thank you for sharing the piece of memory I have form #TheTaliban. @TheTurbanTimes 🙏

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"The people of #Afghanistan need to know what is going on behind the closed doors in #Doha ... and who is compromising what on our behalf."

#PeaceTalks #USA #Taliban #TurbanTimes #FreeWomenWriters #WomensRights #War #Trump #AfghanWomen #HumanRights

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"I haven’t forgiven the #Taliban for ruining the first memory of my childhood, for their backwards treatment of women, for my mother’s nightmares. They broke a civilized #Afghanistan."

#TurbanTimes #FreeWomenWriters #PeaceTalks #USA #Trump #WomensRights

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"We're at risk losing the freedoms we have earned through blood and sacrifice because of the haste of the #UnitedStates and the ineffectiveness of our leaders."

We share 4 @FreeWomenWriter voices on the US-Taliban #PeaceTalks.

#US #Taliban #Afghanistan

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The decision by #Israel’s attorney general to indict Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu may prove to be a game changer in the upcoming #IsraeliElections.

#TurbanTimes

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This is the story of Fatima, whose childhood, like many other young Syrian girls, ended too early.

#Syria #HumanRights #ChildMarriages #MiddleEast

https://t.co/zOjBOFe3sV

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This is what BDS is trying to achieve: Show Israel that enough is enough and that there is a price to pay. Cain, after murdering his brother, cannot walk around fearless.

Israeli Iris Hefets on the boycott of Israel.

#TurbanTimes #Palestine #BDS #Israel

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To claim the late #RachidTaha as a raï singer is to do a great injustice to his legacy. Yet #raï’s origins as a genre of Algerian resistance certainly set the precedent for Taha’s defiant style.

#TurbanTimes #Algeria #Maghreb #NorthAfrica #Postcolonial

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With no long-term plan in place for dealing with its waste problems, the Lebanese gov. is instead kicking the can on the issue with major consequences for the environment and citizens of the country to follow.

#YouStink #StopThem #Lebanon #TurbanTimes

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#Copenhagen, don't miss our event on Jewish-Iranian history tomorrow at 5.30 PM @uni_copenhagen!

We will be joined by @LiorSternfeld, author of "Between #Iran and #Zion", and @arash_tehran, PhD Student of History at NYU and @IranWireEnglish contributor.

https://t.co/aEJbdfgiLo

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#Israel has delineated its boundaries with the power of language too – not only are #Palestinians unable to verbally resist their oppression, neither can their supporters.

Jerusalem-born activist shares her support for @marclamonthill.

#BDS #Hill #CNN

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#Copenhagen|ers, don't miss out on our event next Wednesday!

We'll be joined by historian @LiorSternfeld for an interesting, informative evening on an important piece of history. December 12th, @uni_copenhagen.

More info: https://t.co/aEJbdfgiLo

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“Israel used to bring American Jews together. Now it is driving them apart.”

Video of @ArielElyseGold's talk at our Copenhagen event is now up.

#Israel #HumanRights #Trump #Pittsburgh #Palestine #USA @codepink

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