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Morocco's queer uprising
- James Dorsey
- 13 July 2010
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One Moroccan organisation for lesbians, transsexuals and homo- and bisexuals, estimates that some 5000 people have been jailed in Morocco or forced to emigrate because they are gay. Mithly, the Arab world's only gay magazine, hopes to steer the debate into calmer waters.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Cat Stevens' call to prayer
- Anne Doyle
- 24 June 2010
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In 1975, during a near death experience, Cat Stevens called out to God. 'The moment I became a Muslim I found peace,' says the man now known as Yusuf Islam. He appears, solitary at the microphone, and begins an older man's rendition of a younger man's songs.
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AUSTRALIA

Palestine's heavy metal revolution
- James M. Dorsey
- 19 April 2010
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Boosted by technologies that facilitate mass distribution without government control, the heavy metal and hip-hop music scene in the Middle East recalls the role music played in the velvet revolution that toppled regimes in Eastern Europe and Indonesia.
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AUSTRALIA

Terrorist fear exposes Dutch intolerance
- Ashlea Scicluna
- 20 May 2008
19 Comments
The popular perception of the Netherlands as a tolerant country is only a half-truth. Most Dutch rarely mix with the Islamic population, fearing Islam will encroach upon the traditional values of Dutch identity. The nation has failed to understand and accept its Muslim population.
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INTERNATIONAL

Honour killings an expression of immigrant alienation
- David Rosen
- 19 March 2008
3 Comments
The United Nations estimates that 5,000 honour killings occur annually. These killings are a rebellion against modernity, attempts to hold on to older traditional values, especially concerning social relations and sexuality.
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INFORMATION

Letters to Eureka Street
- Christine Bacon, Chris Curtis
- 18 May 2007
Letters from Christine Bacon, Chris Curtis
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Personal odyssey in the steps of three Gobi women
- James Massola
- 23 December 2006
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After discovering books by three women, a Lonely Planet editor from Melbourne resolves to follow in their footsteps, in the hope of giving some purpose to her aimless wanderlust.
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AUSTRALIA

George W. Bush and "super-sized" war for freedom and values
- Jack Waterford
- 18 September 2006
George Bush, John Howard and others insist that we are winning the long war against terrorists, and, perhaps by body count they are right. But there is evidence that the way we are fighting the war has massively increased popular sympathy for such people in some parts of the world.
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AUSTRALIA

Spain's hard line makes illegal immigration more dangerous
- Anthony Ham
- 04 September 2006
Europe and Africa lie just 14km apart across the Straits of Gibraltar which separate Spain from Morocco, but when it comes to living standards, there is no wider gulf between neighbours anywhere in the world.
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AUSTRALIA

Poor People's Summit on the Niger River
- Anthony Ham
- 24 July 2006
1 Comment
As the leaders of the world’s richest and most powerful countries gathered in St Petersburg this month, a few hundred activists were meeting in a dusty frontier town 350km beyond Timbuktu, for what they dubbed ‘the Poor People’s Summit’.
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AUSTRALIA

Grim reaping
- Jack Waterford
- 03 July 2006
The United States will probably complete its war against Iraq with its military clout enhanced, its diplomatic clout reduced, and its place in the world less secure.
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INTERNATIONAL

Beyond the frame
- Peter Davis
- 26 June 2006
Manipulating images: from the real to the ideal
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