Articles by Baher Kamal
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Seven Top Challenges Facing African Women
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service,
25 Jan 2016
These challenges are now top on the agenda of the “8thAfrican Union Gender Pre-Summit on 2016 African Year of Human Rights,with Particular Focus on the Rights of Women” taking place in Addis Ababa on 17 – 21 January.
→ read full articleOnce Auctioned, What to Do with the ‘Stock’ of Syrian Refugees?
Baher Kamal – Human Wrongs Watch,
18 Jan 2016
13 Jan 2016 – Few months ago, an unprecedented “humanitarian auction” was opened in Brussels at the European Commission, shortly after watching the image of the three-year old Syrian child that the sea threw up on the Turkish shores. The “auction” was about deciding upon the number of Syrian refugees to be hosted by each EU country.
→ read full article… And All of a Sudden, Syria!
Baher Kamal, IPS - Human Wrongs Watch,
11 Jan 2016
5 Jan 2015 – The “big five” – i.e., the most military powerful states on earth (US, UK, France, Russia and China) have just agreed that it would be about time to end the Syrian five-year long human tragedy.
→ read full articleSilence, Please! A New Middle East Is in the Making
Baher Kamal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
When, in June 2006, former US National Security adviser and, later on, Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, spelled out the George W. Bush administration new, magic doctrine for the Middle East, tons of ink was poured and millions of words said in a harsh attempt to speculate with what she really did mean by what she called “Creative Chaos.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Medio Oriente: Toneladas de tinta y millones de palabras pero…
Baher Kamal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Este es un análisis de Baher Kamal, periodista de nacionalidad española y origen egipcio, donde desmitifica alguno de los estereotipos más comunes sobre los árabes, la región de Medio Oriente, los musulmanes y el islam.
→ read full articleThe Over-Written, Under-Reported Middle East – Part I: Of Arabs and Muslims
Baher Kamal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Egyptian-born, Spanish-national, secular journalist Baher Kamal tries to demystify some of the most common stereotypes circulating around the Middle East region.
→ read full articleThe Over-Written, Under-Reported Middle East – Part II: 99.5 Years of (Imposed) Solitude
Baher Kamal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Baher Kamal tries to demystify some of the most common stereotypes circulating around the Middle East region. Here he explains some of the roots of its drama.
→ read full articleChinese Logic
Baher Kamal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Henry Kissinger once asked Chou En-Lai to theorize on what might have happened if Nikita Khrushchev had been assassinated instead of John F. Kennedy.
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Baher Kamal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
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Palestine – Chronicle of a Foretold Death
Baher Kamal, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
A quick look at the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would suffice to conclude that the process leading to creating a Palestinian State living side by side with Israel had already been sentenced to failure 117 years ago.
→ read full articleEgypt in the Rear Mirror (II): Who Are the Not-So-Invisible Powers Behind the Troglodytes?
Baher Kamal - Human Wrongs Watch,
7 Apr 2014
Cairo, 26 March 2014 – “If you cannot win them, join them” seems to be the old British political principle that Washington has been applying to its plans to re-design the Arab region, always under the recurrent public pretext of the “war on terrorism.”
→ read full articleEgypt in the Rear Mirror (I): The Irresistible Temptation to Analyse What One Ignores
Baher Kamal - Human Wrongs Watch,
31 Mar 2014
Simply one thing is to live the events, witness them, be immersed in them, having been born there and understanding the culture and language of the people, and quite a different thing is to just surf in Internet and watch TV as a way to asses and further judge what is going on in a very far away country.
→ read full articleWho Dares to Challenge a 32 Billion-Dollar Business – Human Trafficking?
Baher Kamal – Human Wrongs Watch,
31 Oct 2011
After weapons and drugs, human trafficking is the third most lucrative criminal business in the world – a 32 billion-dollar global industry, which is estimated to be exploiting over 2.4 million people, two-thirds of them women and children. Who dares to challenge such a huge business?
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