Lebanon: Call for Agricultural Revival

Syndicated from Tadamon on Tue, 2008-06-03

Broadcasts from Beirut VII: Rami Zuraky professor, activist in Beirut: Land and People.

Photo: Shattered glass in south Lebanon.

A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…
May 2008 saw political turmoil in Lebanon reach its most violent peak since the [...]

Photo Essay: Beirut Streets. May 2008

Syndicated from Tadamon on Fri, 2008-05-30

Photo essay from Carole Kerbage.

Beirut May 10th 2008: Barbour district Beirut witnessed harsh armed battles.

Photo Essay: Beirut walls speak the language of the past

Syndicated from Tadamon on Fri, 2008-05-30

Photo Essay from Farah Kobaissy in Beirut.

Graffiti for Future Movement, founded by the assassinated Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
In May 2008 the streets in Beirut and throughout Lebanon witnessed military clashes between armed forces backing the Lebanese opposition lead by Hezbollah and the former Lebanese government supported by Saudi Arabia and the U.S. In May the [...]

Lebanon: Doha Deal | Sectarianism

Syndicated from Tadamon on Sun, 2008-05-25

Broadcasts from Beirut VI: Nada Bakri reporter with the New York Times.

Photo: Beirut from above.
A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…
An interview with Nada Bakri, a correspondent for the New York Times in Lebanon, who comments on the [...]

Doha Agreement | Economic Crisis

Syndicated from Tadamon on Wed, 2008-05-21

Broadcasts from Beirut V: An interview with Professor Karim Makdisi.

Photo: Krystel Kfoury, Beirut from a distance.

A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…

Lebanon: Qatar Negotiations | U.S. on Hezbollah

Syndicated from Tadamon on Tue, 2008-05-20

Broadcasts from Beirut IV: An interview with journalist Anthony Shadid.

Photo: Lebanese soldiers patrol Beirut.

A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…

Lebanon: Reporter reflections from Beirut

Syndicated from Tadamon on Wed, 2008-05-14

Lebanon’s government cancels measure against Hezbollah.

Interview with Raed Rafei, a Lebanese reporter working with the Los Angeles Times.
Broadcasts from Beirut III: A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…

Radio Free Palestine

Syndicated from Tadamon on Tue, 2008-05-13

for immediate release…

eighteen-hour international radio broadcast on 60-years of Palestinian dispossession.

Lebanon: Currents of Conflict

Syndicated from Tadamon on Tue, 2008-05-13

An interview with Bilal Elamine in Beirut, Lebanon.

Photo: Al-Akbar, youth protests in Beirut.

Conflict in Lebanon has spread in the past week beyond Beirut, to mountain areas above the capital city, to Tripoli in Northern Lebanon. Throughout Lebanon a tense political stand-off remains between the U.S.-backed government lead-by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and a political opposition [...]

Palestinian Perspectives: May 2008

Syndicated from Tadamon on Sat, 2008-05-10

May 15th 2008. Cinéma du Parc, 3575 Avenue du Parc.

An evening of Palestinian films to commemorate 60 years since Al-Nakba - the catastrophe of dispossession brought about by the establishment of the State of Israel - and to celebrate the Palestinian voice.
1947-1948: Zionist forces provoke the exodus of 750,000 refugees, forcibly evicted from their homes [...]

Lebanon: Beirut in Crisis

Syndicated from Tadamon on Fri, 2008-05-09

Interview with activist and publisher Samah Idriss in Beirut, Lebanon.

Photo: Lebanese gunman in Beirut.

Jewish people stand for free speech on the CALEB/Tadamon! conference

Syndicated from Tadamon on Mon, 2008-04-21

April 20th, 2008: To the administration at Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne

Mesdames, Monsieurs,

We write to urge you not to cancel a joint conference by Comité d’action pour la lutte étudiante boulonnaise (CALEB) and Tadamon! April 21 on Israel and Palestine. Behind this censorship attempt appears to be a false belief that critics of Israel are anti-Semitic, [...]

Photos: Against Apartheid in Montreal

Syndicated from Tadamon on Fri, 2008-04-11

Report from photojournalist Ion Etxebarria.

Anti-apartheid protesters scatter political confetti at a lunch-in at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, reading; “60 years of Israeli Apartheid, 60 years of Palestinian dispossession; Boycott Israel!”

Confronting Israeli Apartheid in Montreal

Syndicated from Tadamon on Fri, 2008-04-11

Activists disrupt Israeli Ambassador to Canada…

Photo: Ion Etxebarria. Protest-confetti scattered at the Queen Elizabeth.

Thursday, April 10th, 2008: Israel’s Ambassador to Canada, Alan Baker, was humiliated by demonstrators at the posh Queen Elizabeth Hotel in downtown Montreal.

Dispossession in Nahr el-Bared

Syndicated from Tadamon on Sun, 2008-04-06

Photo Essay from Raed El Rafei, Lebanese reporter with the LA Times.

Tadamon! presents photographs from Nahr el-Bared from Raed El Rafei.

Lebanon’s Nahr el-Bared refugee camp, once home to an estimated Palestinian refugees, remains in ruins, almost completely destroyed. Reconstruction efforts of the camp have been slow in the past months. As the military battle between [...]