Send me an Angel

The wise man said just walk this way To the dawn of the light The wind will blow into your face As the years pass you by

We're Lost

We're Not terrorists
The Psychological pressure, killing us
The Colonial wall, choking us
The Blockade is driving us crazy

Sociability

Today, i knew new Wisdom and i will be always respecting it :

We always see people Behaviors, they are different from each other, people we might say about them bad things, and others might see them doing good things. It depends, how do we see them acting in specific positions, but the most important Do not rush in judging.

Tawfiq Zayyad

IN ENGLISH :

(1)Passing RemarkWhen they ran over her,
the mulberry tree said:
"Do what you wish,
but remember
my right to bear fruit
will never die."

أمة فوق الصليب

أمة فوق الصليب
توفيق زياد

علّقونا أمةً كاملةً فوق الصليب
علّقونا فوقه -
حتى
نتوب
هذه النكسة ليست
آخر الدنيا ..

أحب ..ولكن

أُحِـبّ .. ولكن

شعر: توفيق زياد

أُحِبّ لو استطعت بلحظةٍ

أن أقلب الدنيا لكم : رأساً على عَقِبِ

السكّر المرّ

السكـّر المـرّ

توفيق زيّـاد

أجيبيني
أنادي جرحك المملوء ملحاً يا فلسطيني
أناديه وأصرخُ
ذوِّبيني فيه .. صبّيني
أنا ابنك ! خــلـّـفتني ها هنا المأساةُ

Do not come close to my madness

Do not come close to my madness

A man
Read the testimony of my birth,
Memorized my maturation,
And taught me love
Taught me the philosophy of men
The Science of the flesh
The history of the people

Intoxicated

Intoxicated

I went to you,
I was looking for answers

I went back with more questions,

intoxicated

I have painted nail

Juxtaposed hair
Decorated with a smile

Beautiful and appetite

New Lessons

My fiance' taught me some things new :


he told me, do not appreciate anyone, doesn't appreciating you.
he told me, do not miss anyone, doesn't missing me.
he told me, do not give attention for someone, doesn't care about you.
and he told me, don't Give more than what you Take

أنا وليلى

ألقى الشاعر حسن المرواني هذه القصيده اليتيمه في حفل التخرج لكلية التربيه في بغداد سنه 1978 وأهداها الى حبيبته التى احبها تسع سنوات وكان يظن أنها تحبه ..ويبدو أن المـــال أغراها...وكان كثيرا ما يسألونه ما دامت قد رفضتك فلماذا لا تبحث عن واحده أخرى ؟..وكان يجيبهم بأنه لا بأس ان يشنق مرتين..ولكنه بكل ما يجيده الاطفال من اصرار يرفض ان يحب مرتين !!

Wondering...

This is our Oriental life, Whether we like it or not
Do we have the same life that you have ?
Was a question to one of my friends.. and the answer is UNDER

Palestine in My Camera

Well. i used to know that Palestine is about 27.000 square kilometers. But now i know that this fact is not existed any more. I have to look in another way, maybe i have to count the places we're STILL living in, or maybe i have to LOOK at the map over again. Maybe through this i can see the new palestine which became 6000 square kilometers included lots of settlements. This is the new palestine that i will look for it into the map hardly, to know if it is still existed or not.

Samir Amin

Samir Amin:

Samir Amin was born in Cairo, the son of an Egyptian father and a French mother (both medical doctors). He spent his childhood and youth in Port Said; there he attended a French High School, leaving in 1947 with a Baccalauréat. From 1947 to 1957 he studied in Paris, gaining a diploma in political science (1952) before graduating in statistics (1956) and economics (1957). In his autobiography Itinéraire intellectuel (1990) he wrote that in order to spend substantial time in "militant action" he could devote only a minimum of work preparing for university exams.
Arriving in Paris, Amin joined the French Communist Party (PCF), but he later distanced himself from Soviet Marxism and associated for some time with Maoist circles. He also published with other students a magazine, Étudiants Anticolonialistes. In 1957 he presented his thesis, supervised by François Perroux among others, originally titled The origins of underdevelopment - capitalist accumulation on a world scale but retitled The structural effects of the international integration of precapitalist economies. A theoretical study of the mechanism which creates so-called underdeveloped economies.

After finishing his thesis, Amin went back to Cairo, where he was from 1957 to 1960 research officer at the government "Institution for Economic Management". Subsequently Amin left Cairo, to become advisor in the Ministry of Planning in Bamako (Mali) from 1960 to 1963. In 1963 he was offered a fellowship at the Institut Africain de Développement Économique et de Planification (IDEP). Until 1970 he worked there as well as being a professor at the university of Poitiers, Dakar and Paris (of Paris VIII, Vincennes). In 1970 he became director of the IDEP, which he managed until 1980. In 1980 Amin left the IDEP and became a director of the Third World Forum in Dakar.

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert :

was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style.

Major works:

- Mémoires d’un fou (1838) (tr. Memoirs of a Madman)
- Madame Bovary (1857)
- Salammbô (1862)
- L'Éducation sentimentale (1869) (tr. Sentimental Education)
- La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874) (tr. The Temptation of Saint Anthony)
- Trois contes (1877) (tr. Three Tales) (More short stories published in "Early Writings": ISBN 0-8032-1982-2)
- Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881, posthumously published)
- Dictionnaire des idées reçues (1911, posthumously published, tr. Dictionary of Received Ideas)
- November (written, 1842)
- A simple heart
- Herodias

Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert's first novel and considered his masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was notoriously a perfectionist about his writing and claimed always to be searching for le mot juste ("the right word").
The novel was attacked for obscenity by public prosecutors when it was first serialized in La Revue de Paris between October 1, 1856 and December 15, 1856, resulting in a trial in January 1857 that made the story notorious. After the acquittal on February 7, 1857, it became a bestseller when it was published as a book in April 1857, and now stands virtually unchallenged not only as a seminal work of Realism, but as one of the most influential novels ever written.

Naji Al Ali

Naji Al Ali

Born in the Galilee, al-Ali fled with his family to southern Lebanon during the ARAB-ISRAELI WAR OF 1948 and spent his youth in the Ayn al-Hilwa refugee camp. He began drawing cartoons on the walls of Lebanese prisons during the late 1950s and was later encouraged to publish his cartoons by the famous Palestinian writer GHASSAN KANAFANI.

Al-Ali later moved to Kuwait in the early 1960s. Returning to Lebanon in 1971, al-Ali served on the editorial board of the prominent Lebanese newspaper al-Safir and also contributed cartoons to other prominent Arab newspapers.

Al-Ali's cartoons were often biting commentaries on life in the Middle East. Each cartoon featured a young boy, Hanzala, as spectator. Fiercely independent, al-Ali sought to defend what he believed was the common Arab man and woman and alienated a host of regimes and political movements in the process.

Al-Ali left Lebanon in 1983 for Kuwait out of fear for his life; however, he was expelled in 1985 under pressure from neighboring Saudi Arabia and moved to London. He was shot by an unknown assailant on July 22, 1987, and died on August 30 of the same year.

Al-Ali was posthumously awarded the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers' Golden Pen Award in 1988 to recognize his contributions to freedom of expression.Michael R. Fischbach

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Bayan Nuwayhed Al hout

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout:
Was born in Jerusalem. Following the 1948 war, her family moved to live in Amman, then returned to her parents’ homeland of Lebanon in the late 1950s, where she gained a Ph.D. in political science from the Lebanese University. From 1979 on, she joined the academic staff of the same university, and dedicated herself to historical/political writings, mainly on the Palestine Question. She has published several books, and dozens of articles and essays.

Her Greatest works :

Sabra and Shatila
September 1982
Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

The book covers the history of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, which took place over three bloody days in the Lebanese capital Beirut. It was committed against Palestinian refugees by Lebanese militias, aided and supervised by the Israeli Army, which had encircled the district.

Now available for the first time in English, this classic book is the most comprehensive, authoritative account of what happened and who was responsible. The author, Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout, was a Professor at the Lebanese University at the time. Driven by the horror of what occurred, she interviewed survivors and set up an oral history project immediately after the massacre to preserve testimonies. This book is the result. Following a general introduction, the first part contains interviews mainly with victims' families. The second part analyses statistical data and attempts to determine the number of victims. The conclusion, 'Who Was Responsible?', sheds light on the various parties responsible. Over five-hundred pages long, illustrated with photographs and maps, unrivalled in detail and scope, this book is a courageous attempt to make sense of what happened and an important political document in its own right.

Karma Nabulsi

The Palestinian Karma Nabulsi is an Oxford academic and a former PLO representative.

Karma Nabulsi: One of her Articles

The pain of being Palestinian; wherever you live

This summer I found myself meeting British people from all walks of life - none of them Middle East "experts" - who spoke of their feelings of helplessness as they watched the war in Lebanon. They spoke of their rage and despair at being unable to do anything more than witness the mass killing of civilians by the Israeli aerial bombardment on their televisions. They found themselves unable to comprehend their Prime Minister's refusal to call for an immediate ceasefire. They watched US planes loaded with "smart bombs" heading for Israel, and landing to refuel in a Scottish civilian airport. They then saw the results of these bombs in the the senseless slaughter of children.

Last Friday they were told by this paper that next door, in Gaza, a similarly disproportionate destruction and killing of civilians has been taking place - is still taking place - but that they aren't being informed of this in the mainstream media. The Independent's front page on Gaza was a watershed moment in reporting on the conflict in Palestine and Israel. For it made a direct connection between the type of coverage that the conflict attracts and the perpetuation of that conflict. It highlighted the media's complicity.

Even when events in Palestine are reported, the Government ignores them - in Ramallah this weekend Tony Blair made no reference to the incursions in Gaza; the imprisonment of dozens of elected parliamentarians; the 10,000 political prisoners languishing in Israeli jails; the blockade, siege, and starvation in Gaza; the Israeli settlement expansion announced last week; the policy of collective punishment and what can only be described as the terrorisation of a people, in order to get them to surrender their claim to liberty. The further act of violence is how persistently these daily Israeli actions vanish into an eerie oblivion. The media have played a critical role in this.

But Palestinians all over the world have been witnessing what has been happening in Palestine. Each of us is intimately connected to the place and we find ourselves informed of the hourly atrocities (whether we want to be or not) in unbearable detail, through phone calls, e-mails, internet postings, local reports, all of which we follow together, as one, hour by excruciating hour.

Having lived in both worlds, I know it is easier to bear these moments deep inside the Palestinian polity than to observe them from far outside. This is the chief characteristic of contemporary Palestinian identity: the vast prison camp and daily killing in occupied Palestine is reflected and perpetuated in the concealed Palestinians' prison camp of dispossession and exile.

What little the West knows of the Palestinians is their predicament inside the occupied Palestinian territories (23 per cent of historic Palestine as it existed up until 1948); yet most Palestinians live outside: the Palestinian people were expelled in 1948, and have been enduring a precarious life as refugees for over half a century, many without identity papers, without permission to work or own property in some countries in the Arab world, without the ability to go home, without the main UN resolutions implemented - not one - all these years later.

Palestinians number over 9 million, and most of us live outside historic Palestine. Yet even the reality of Gaza is not understood - more than 70 per cent of Palestinians currently living there are refugees, driven out of their farms and villages in in 1948. This is why it is the most densely populated place on earth: farmers' children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, pushed, then crammed, and now hemmed into a prison just miles away from their land. All resistance to this illegal state of affairs is described as terrorism by the Israelis. This mischaracterisation goes largely uncorrected by those experts, politicians, and pundits who know better.

Although the people of Palestine still wait for the world to hold to its promise of 1947 and restore to us the formal sovereignty that was taken from us by force, Palestinians everywhere, both inside and outside, are still citizens of that Palestinian polity. In London they are organising food parcels, in Australia, medical equipment for the hospitals in Gaza, in universities across the world Palestinian students have been central figures in organising protests.

So it was inspirational to see the response of ordinary British people to the war in Lebanon. It gives us encouragement in our quest for freedom. People wrote articles, letters and weblogs, protested, staged demonstrations; many took part in a vigil at Prestwick airport. When the Government abnegated its role, people everywhere took up civic responsibility themselves. It provided the best demonstration of British democracy that anyone would wish to see, illustrating the timeless fact that here - as in Palestine - when people speak truth to power they remain free.

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The writer is a Fellow of St Edmund Hall and lecturer at Oxford University

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Well known, but Not well done

Read more and See more, then judge..

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), popularly known as the Nazi Party. He was the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, serving as chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and as head of state (Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945.
A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the Nazi Party in 1920 and became its leader in 1921. Following his imprisonment after a failed coup in 1923, he gained support by promoting German nationalism, anti-semitism, and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and propaganda. He was appointed chancellor in 1933, and quickly established and made reality his vision of a totalitarian, autocratic, single party, national socialist dictatorship. Hitler pursued a foreign policy with the declared goal of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for Germany, directing the resources of the state toward this goal. His rebuilt Wehrmacht invaded Poland in 1939, leading to the outbreak of World War II in Europe.
Within three years, Germany and the Axis powers occupied most of Europe and a part of northern Africa, East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean. However, the Allies gained the upper hand from 1942 onward and in 1945 Allied armies invaded Germany from all sides. His forces committed numerous atrocities during the war, including the systematic killing of as many as 17 million civilians including the genocide of an estimated six million Jews, known as the Holocaust.
During the final days of the war in 1945, Hitler married his long-time mistress Eva Braun. Less than two days later, the two committed suicide.

The Holocaust also known as The Shoah is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, its allies, and collaborators. Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' systematic murder of millions of people in other groups, including ethnic Poles, the Romani, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, gay men, and political and religious opponents. By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims is between 11 million and 17 million people.

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