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Global Voices Podcast: Food for Thought, Food to Eat

In this edition we explore the latest work and events in the Global Voices community. We also speak with some friends about the cross cultural elements of our lives, with a special focus on food: both food for thought, and to eat!

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Egypt: Should the Grand Mufti Have Gone to Jerusalem?

Palestine: Gazans Suffer Due to Fuel and Electricity Shortage

Palestine: Gaza Under Attack - Again 10 March 2012
Israel: The Lie, the Truth and the Meme (of the Soldier and the Girl) 3 February 2012
Arab World: A Year In Pictures - Our Authors' Selection 4 January 2012
Bethlehem: Armenian and Greek Clergy Clash at Christmas 28 December 2011
Palestine: Freedom Riders Challenge Israeli Segregation 17 November 2011

Latest stories about Palestine

21 May 2012

Palestine: Agreement Made to End Prisoners' Hunger Strike

Written by Jummana Kahlout · Human Rights, Law

On May 14 over 2000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails ended their hunger strike after periods varying from 28 to 77 days, when the Israel Prison Service agreed to implement measures ensuring the basic rights of prisoners would be met.

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18 May 2012

Palestine: PalFest Literature Festival in Gaza for First Time

Written by Ola Anan · Arts & Culture, Literature

This year for the first time the Palestinian Festival of Literature was held in Gaza. A group of about forty Egyptian, Tunisian, Sudanese and Palestinian authors, artists and activists were granted permission to visit Gaza and participate in PalFest 2012 from May 5 to 10.

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2 May 2012

Palestine: Mass Hunger Strike by Prisoners

Written by Jummana Kahlout · Human Rights, Protest

Palestinian prisoners began an open ended hunger strike on April 17 to protest the conditions within Israeli prisons. What had started earlier as a protest by a few has now increased to thousands of participants.

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19 April 2012

Palestine: Launch of “100 Palestinian Blog Posts” Competition

Written by Ola Anan · Arts & Culture, Literature

On April 15, youth organization Diwan Ghazza announced a competition that is open to Palestinian bloggers everywhere. The idea is to collect the best 100 Palestinian blog posts, and then to publish them in a book later this year.

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14 April 2012

Remembering Murdered Activist, Vittorio Arrigoni

Written by Paola DOrazio · Translated by Ciara Nugent · Human Rights, Protest

A year after the killing in Gaza of the International Solidarity Movement activist, Vittorio Arrigoni, events are planned in cities throughout Italy, Europe, Palestine and the world. Citizens of the digital world share their memories and stories while the trial of his kidnappers and killers continues.

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18 March 2012

Brazil: Solidarity March for Syrian Revolution

Written by Rami Alhames · Freedom of Speech, Human Rights

Syrian revolution support reached Sao Paulo, Brazil, on March 18. Hundreds of activists in Sao Paulo rallied to show their solidarity with the Syrian struggle on its first anniversary.

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12 March 2012

With Gaza Under Attack, #TerroristIsrael Trends on Twitter

Written by Ola Anan · War & Conflict, Digital Activism

With the Gaza Strip under attack since March 9, 2012, activists introduced a new hashtag to remind people of previous assaults by the Israeli army against the Palestinian people, called #TerroristIsrael.

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7 March 2012

Spain: Head of Journalist Association Threatens Activist With a Belt

Written by Leila Nachawati Rego · Breaking News, Freedom of Speech

The Head of the Press Association in Granada, Antonio Mora, threatened to hit pro-Palestinian activists with his belt when they protested during a photo exhibition of the relations between Israel and Spain.

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2 March 2012

Palestine: Youth Activist Fadi Quran Released From Israeli Prison

Written by Ahmed Medien · Human Rights, Law

Palestinian youth activist Fadi Quran has been released on bail from an Israeli prison. The news was welcomed by dozens of Twitter users who expressed great joy.

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28 February 2012

Palestine: “Diwan Ghazza” and the Gaza Book Club

Written by Yasmeen El Khoudary · Ideas, Arts & Culture

Yasmeen El Khoudary introduces an initiative by young bloggers in Gaza called Diwan Ghazza, and the Gaza Book Club.

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Updates about Palestine

10 March 2012

Updates

Blogger Iqbal Tamimi posts rare photographs of Nazareth city in Palestine, which go back to 1840-1940.

• محمد عادل

12 February 2012

Arabic

Blogger Iqbal Tamimi posts rare photographs of the Palestinian Nakba of 1948.

• محمد عادل

14 December 2011

English

Crikey's NAJ Taylor gathers five of Australia's Middle East diaspora to write about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction of Israel campaign. How effective is it at “balancing the competing harms”? How “useful is [it] for members of the Israeli and Palestinian, as well as Jewish and Muslim, diaspora”?

• Kevin Rennie

23 September 2011

Bulgarian

A silent meeting in support of Palestine's bid for a UN seat and independence took place in Sofia on Sep. 20, organized by the Bulgarian-Palestinian Association for Friendship and Development. There was coverage by Press TV and here are photos from the event on Facebook (Bulgaria to support independent Palestine in UN).

• Ruslan Trad

14 September 2011

English

Chris Keeler, from Notes from a Medinah, rehashes a Twitter conversation between Blake Hounshell of Foreign Policy, Marc Lynch (Abu Aardvark) of the Middle East Channel and Yousef Munayyer of The Palestine Center on the Palestinian statehood here.

• Amira Al Hussaini

5 September 2011

Portuguese

Blogger and activist Emir Mourad posts a series of links [pt] about the launching event of the Palestinian State Committee in São Paulo, Brazil. The committee supports the recognition of Palestine as a sovereign state and the request to the international community that will be presented on the opening day of the UN General Assembly, September 20.

• Raphael Tsavkko Garcia

16 August 2011

Arabic

Bissan writes (Ar) that because she believes in, among other things, the Palestinian Right to Return and that Palestine belongs to the Arab nation, she therefore opposes the upcoming visit of Mahmoud Abbas to Lebanon as well as the prospective Palestinian state intended to be voted upon at the UN.

• Moussa Bashir

14 June 2011

Arabic

Occupied Palestine shares the plight of Khaled Zawahre, who is detained in Ofer prison, allegedly for beating up an Israeli soldier and throwing rocks. Occupied Palestine maintains Khaled's innocence and shares photographs and videos.

• Amira Al Hussaini

28 May 2011

Arabic

Damascus Remains, Throbbing Wounds, Insanity of Poetry, Tears in her Hands, Sword's Caravan and many other poems and reflections on women, human beings, war, heroism and the world by Ibrahim Shakarneh from Nahalin village, in Palestine, can be found on his blog.

• تاليا رحمة

24 May 2011

English

The blog Palestinian Field Negro denounces that the Facebook account of the Brazilian football player from Real Madrid (Spain), Marcelo Vieira, has been deleted due to his support of the Palestinian cause. Later on Marcelo was also cut from the Brazilian national team [pt].

• Raphael Tsavkko Garcia