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A 19 year old Jordanian kidnaps a 14 year old girl (with the assistance of his family) – takes her to a location where a tent was set up for him to rape her repeatedly for three straight days before the police roll in. The court sentences him to death by hanging but he manages to produce a very recent marriage certificate signed by a judge. The court then stays the execution but claims that it will be reinstated should the boy divorce her without a “justifiable cause”. A professor of sociology from the University of Jordan was widely quoted by the original article produced by Arab Al Yawm – that “women are different in nature from men” and that the girl should now make her best of the situation and play the role of a good wife, mostly by putting this whole silly rape thing behind her.
Blogger Naseem Tarawnah summarises a rape case in Jordan that has angered people.
“Vote here.” Image posted by @copi35.
Algeria’s first legislative elections since the start of the Arab uprisings have seen a low turnout.
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Yemen: Anger at Expansion of US Drone War
Image shows US Air Force General Atomics MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Image by Flickr user james_gordon_los_angeles (CC BY-NC 2.0).
Demotivational Humour from Lebanon
Internet memes are just as popular in the Arab world as elsewhere. Recently a number of Facebook pages have been started about specifically Lebanese memes. In this post Global Voices interviews the creator of a page called “Demotivational Lebanon”.
‘Civil war is more comfy in pyjamas - the only lesson that the Lebanese learnt from the civil war.’
‘I know he will steal from me, but I vote for him because he is from my religious sect.’
‘Planning to buy a house in Beirut? Please tell me which bank you will rob.’
Zainab Alkhawaja pictured here protesting alone on April 21, 2012 outside the Financial Harbor in Manama, Bahrain. Her father, Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, is a prominent human rights activist, on hunger strike in prison.
(Image by @Kareemasaeed)
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PRI’s The World interviewed Global Voices author Ahmed Medien in Tunisia about a book reading demonstration on Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis on April 18, 2012 where people literally sat on the street reading books. Read more.
The U.S. Department of State created this (spooky? cute?) cartoon to warn people about Iran’s “electronic curtain” blocking free speech online. Read more.
Israelis are sending messages of love to Iran on Facebook.
@RazanSpeaks: I can’t even bring myself to say anything ‘poetic’ because the reality is far from that. #Syria
Today, March 15, 2012, marks the first anniversary since the start of the Syrian uprising. One year after protests began in Damascus and Daraa, the Syrian opposition’s fight against the Assad regime continues amidst global ambivalence toward the conflict.
On Twitter, Syrians and their allies utilized the #Syria and #March15 hashtags to commemorate the day, remember the country’s martyrs, and reflect on the year behind them.
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