Rosebud – Giornalismo online

                                                  by Mohammed Ali Atassi. The morning of September 18th, Syrian director and film producer Omar Amirlay drove from his home in Damascus to Amman, Jordan. Four months earlier he had [...]

                                        by Michael Teague. A spate of recent articles in The New York Times popularized the notion that Syria is “opening up” and that an effort is being made to somehow “liberalize” society. Considering the long [...]

di Nancy Penrose. Hama è una città della Siria. È la città dove mi sono fermata durante un viaggio da Palmira ad Aleppo, dove ho fotografato le antiche ruote di legno che tagliano il curvilineo letto del fiume Oronte, dove il giorno prima c’era stata la festa dell’Eid al-Adha, dove l’attesa della celebrazione eccitava la [...]

by Rina Brundu. Ten years ago when I first created the phrase “giornalismo online” (online journalism), I remember running a search on the Internet and not finding a single entry on the subject. Yet, it seemed obvious to me! What was obvious? It was obvious that with the arrival of digital writing and, most of [...]

by Elie Chalala. “If you are a traditional Muslim you might be disturbed by parts of this book. But if you are an enlightened Muslim you will realize that dialogue is a characteristic of the modern age. There is no dialogue without difference and without the ability to tolerate different opinions. There is no use [...]

by Rina Brundu. Rossella Urru is a sardinian girl who worked for the International Committee for the Development of Peoples (CISP) and who has been kidnapped in Algeria more then 4 months ago, on the 22nd of October 2011, by the Islamic Group Jamat Tawhid Wal Jihad Fi Garbi Afriqqiya (Monotheist Movement for the Jihad in Western [...]

di Alexandra Stanisic. Nel mezzo della rivoluzione siriana, Fadwa Sulayman ha attirato l’attenzione dei media arabi e mondiali. Le sue foto, le sue azioni, le sue dichiarazioni si trovano ovunque su Facebook, sulle tv via satellite, su youtube e su tutte le altre stazioni dei nuovi media. Questa attenzione ce l’ha presentata come uno straordinario personaggio [...]

“Spring” Positions of Amin, Adonis Face Critical Scrutiny by Elie Chalala.I have read a sizable part of the literature on the Arab Spring, in addition to having watched scores of documentaries and what seems like hundreds of hours of news footage of this most unprecedented event in modern Arab history. In my Middle East politics [...]

by Elie Chalala. A day after he had sang in protest in the square of his hometown, Ibrahim Kashoush was found dead, floating in the Orontes (Al Asi) River. The fate of Ibrahim Kashoush reflects the anger that has been driving Syrians in almost every corner of the country onto the streets and in front [...]

by Elie Chalala. Everything I read about Ghayath Mattar confers an image of a young man who was a model activist in the ongoing Syrian Revolution. Ghayath was a pacifist and advocate of non-violence, states the Madrid-based Syrian exiled author Nawal al-Sibai, according to the website Aklam Hurra (Free Pens). She points out that Mattar’s [...]

by Rebecca Joubin When you think back on your childhood, what is the first thing that strikes you? I was born in Baghdad in 1951 near the shrine of Abdel Ghader al-Gaylani, a Sunni holy man. My mother was from Karbala and my father from Najaf. I was born Shii, yet I spent the early [...]

On Striscia la notizia entertaining journalistic approach… More than one year ago, after reading TIME Magazine’s Italy’s Newspapers: Untrusted Sources by Stephan Faris, an article dealing with “his j’accuse concerning the untrustworthiness of the Italian press” I did not hesitate to give my full approval to its contents, to write myself on the subject (Wuthering Scribes) and to email [...]

Think of others by Mahmoud Darwish As you prepare your breakfast – think of others. Don’t forget to feed the pigeons. As you conduct your wars – think of others. Don’t forget those who want peace. As you pay your water bill – think of others. Think of those who only have clouds to drink [...]