Comments on: The Middle East and North Africa on Women's International Day http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/08/israel-on-womens-international-day/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:27:58 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Haitian Women Talk Feminisms http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/08/israel-on-womens-international-day/comment-page-1/#comment-845775 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Haitian Women Talk Feminisms Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:52:23 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/08/israel-on-womens-international-day/#comment-845775 [...] This past week, we covered how Kazakhstan and its Women, the Middle East and North Africa, Russia, and South Asia blogged International Women’s Day. [...] [...] This past week, we covered how Kazakhstan and its Women, the Middle East and North Africa, Russia, and South Asia blogged International Women’s Day. [...]

]]> By: Amira Al Hussaini http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/08/israel-on-womens-international-day/comment-page-1/#comment-834837 Amira Al Hussaini Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:26:19 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/08/israel-on-womens-international-day/#comment-834837 Dear Yazan, Unless I have gone completely senile..which I think I haven't yet..Swedish/Pakistani blogger Shaykhspeara Sha'ira is based in Damascus, which was in Syria, when I last checked! So this small detail, ie: the location of the blogger, is what attaches the link to Syria. If you think otherwise, please let me know and I will amend it. Thanks. Dear Yazan,
Unless I have gone completely senile..which I think I haven’t yet..Swedish/Pakistani blogger Shaykhspeara Sha’ira is based in Damascus, which was in Syria, when I last checked! So this small detail, ie: the location of the blogger, is what attaches the link to Syria. If you think otherwise, please let me know and I will amend it. Thanks.

]]> By: Yazan Badran http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/08/israel-on-womens-international-day/comment-page-1/#comment-834605 Yazan Badran Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:10:37 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/08/israel-on-womens-international-day/#comment-834605 Our next stop is in Syria, where Swedish/Pakistani blogger Shaykhspeara Sha’ira takes us way out of the Middle East to Bogota to share with us an aspect of their celebrations of the day. “The Mayor of Bogotá in Colombia, Antanas Mockus, introduced a new tradition in 2001 called Women’s Night. It was celebrated the night before March 8th and men were asked to stay home with the kids and contemplate over themselves and their women, and the work they do. The women in turn went out to parks and enjoyed themselves with their grandmothers while policeofficers made sure no man disturbed them. Result: There was not a single murder on the streets of Bogotá, which normally witnesses 15 murders a night,” she writes. Amira... what exactly does this have to do with SYRIA?!!! Our next stop is in Syria, where Swedish/Pakistani blogger Shaykhspeara Sha’ira takes us way out of the Middle East to Bogota to share with us an aspect of their celebrations of the day.

“The Mayor of Bogotá in Colombia, Antanas Mockus, introduced a new tradition in 2001 called Women’s Night. It was celebrated the night before March 8th and men were asked to stay home with the kids and contemplate over themselves and their women, and the work they do. The women in turn went out to parks and enjoyed themselves with their grandmothers while policeofficers made sure no man disturbed them.
Result: There was not a single murder on the streets of Bogotá, which normally witnesses 15 murders a night,” she writes.

Amira… what exactly does this have to do with SYRIA?!!!

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