In Part Two of our Everywoman special on the veil we meet a girl who has made the decision not to cover up. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Aljazeera Everywoman women Shiulie Ghosh veil niqab hijab hijabi neqab saudi arabia islam egypt religion Added: May 16, 2008
Three Egyptian women talk to Everywoman about their experiences of wearing the veil. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: women Everywoman Shiulie Ghosh muslim family veil niqab hijab hijabi neqab saudi arabia egypt islam religion Added: May 16, 2008
We look at how networks and TV stations are the new battlegrounds in Beirut. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: The Listening Post Conflict Lebanon beirut al jazeera civil war israel Palestinians 60 years independence nakba Added: May 16, 2008
We look at how networks and TV stations are the new battlegrounds in Beirut. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: The Listening Post Conflict Lebanon beirut al jazeera civil war israel Palestinians 60 years independence nakba Added: May 16, 2008
Thousands of French teachers and public sector workers have gone on strike in Paris to protest against job cuts and education reform. Estelle Youssouffa, Al Jazeera's correspondent reporting from Paris, draws on similarities from forty years ago when a social revolution shook the nation in the 1960s and education and reform thrived in the heart of French society. "May 68" was the year in which a series of student protests and a general strike caused the eventual collapse of the French government. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: al jazeera english france 1968 estelle youssouffa paris 68 cultural revolution Added: May 15, 2008
Many villagers who survived the deadly earthquake in China's Sichuan province say have no idea how they can afford to rebuild their lives and are being overlooked by relief efforts. Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports from near thee town of Dujianyang, near to the epicentre of the quake. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: china earthquake disaster Added: May 16, 2008
In a special two-part series Al Jazeera relives the tragic narrative of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) through the stories of one street in the city of Jaffa. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: news documentary palestine israel jaffa al jazeera mona ibellini jews arabs nakba 1948 Added: May 16, 2008
In a special two-part series Al Jazeera relives the tragic narrative of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) through the stories of one street in the city of Jaffa. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: news documentary israel palestine arabs jews nakba 1948 jaffa al jazeera mona ibellini Added: May 16, 2008
Is increased consumption really driving the prices up so dramatically? Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Inside Story food crisis al jazeera high prices consumption Added: May 16, 2008
Is increased consumption really driving the prices up so dramatically? Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Inside Story food crisis al jazeera high prices consumption Added: May 16, 2008
In a special two-part series Al Jazeera relives the tragic narrative of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) through the stories of one street in the city of Jaffa. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: news documentary al jazeera mona ibellini palestine street israel nakba Added: May 16, 2008
Plus, boxing the Venda way, Ghana's rugby team and South Korea's archers. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Sportsworld Malaysia sailing al jazeera boxing archery olympic rugby ghana Added: May 16, 2008
Plus, boxing the Venda way, Ghana's rugby team and South Korea's archers. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Sportsworld Malaysia sailing al jazeera boxing archery olympic rugby ghana Added: May 16, 2008
In a special two-part series Al Jazeera relives the tragic narrative of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) through the stories of In a special two-part series Al Jazeera relives the tragic narrative of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) through the stories of one street in the city of Jaffa. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: al jazeera nakba israel jaffa 1948 arabs jews news documentary palestine mona ibellini Added: May 16, 2008
Myanmar has a reputation for being secretive and closed to foreign interference. But as Al Jazeera's Sebastian Walker reports, it seems the country's ruling generals are playing the political game in Washington DC. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: myanmar military government lobby washington politics al jazeera sebastiab walker Added: May 16, 2008
South America is a long way from the Middle East. While the people of Israel celebrate the birth of their state 60 years ago, Palestinians are mourning their Nakba - when hundreds of thousands were forced into exile, some of them to as far away as Brazil. David Chater has the story of their long journey. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Al Jazeera aljazeera Israel anniversary Palestinian Nakba Brazil refugees Added: May 16, 2008
In west Africa, the rising cost of basic foodstuffs is leading to political and civil unrest as well as threatening millions with hunger. Perhaps the most serious unrest has occurred in Cameroon - at least 47 people were killed in food prices related violence. Our correspondent Yvonne Ndege travelled to the capital Yaounde to find out how people are trying to create their own alternatives to deal with the hike in food prices. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Al Jazeera aljazeera west Africa Cameroon food price crisis unrest Added: May 16, 2008
Chinese authorities have sent out more than 130,000 soldiers and police, to help search for survivors, after Monday's devastating quake. Al Jazeera's Tony Cheng has followed emergency teams up into the mountains, where they finally reached one of those remote villages. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: China earthquake Tony Cheng Al Jazeera English Added: May 15, 2008
Chinese authorities have sent out more than 130,000 soldiers and police, to help search for survivors, after Monday's devastating quake. But as each hour passes, rescue efforts are turning into a grim search for bodies. China is now warning the death toll could top 50,000. There's also a new threat that a nearby dam could burst, engulfing the entire town. Al Jazeera's correspondent Melissa Chan reports. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Al Jazeera English Melissa Chan China earthquake Added: May 15, 2008
Barack Obama's bid for the US Democratic presidential nomination has been marred by the controversy over remarks made by his fomer pastor, Jeremiah Wright. And now that relationship is being used by the Republicans in a strategy Democrats say is racially tinged. We sent Max Blumenthal, a writer for the progressive magazine, The Nation, to the southern state of Mississippi. He asks if attack ads used in a congressional election there could be a sign of things to come. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Al Jazeera Republican Democrats Max Blumenthal US elections Obama Added: May 15, 2008
An Al Jazeera exclusive on the threats of disease and hunger facing post-cyclone Myanmar as the ruling generals defy international pressure and continue to reject outside help. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: myanmar cyclone nargis disease survivors aljazeera Added: May 15, 2008
Looking at one man's journey, this special 3 part series discovers one man's journey back to Palestine, his first time since he was expelled in 1948. From Palestine, he fled to a refugee camp in Lebanon and from Lebanon to Denmark. Al Jazeera's Awad Joumaa takes his father to the country he fled from. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: al jazeera enlish palestine awad joumaa Added: May 15, 2008
In part one of a special 3 part series, Al Jazeera's Awad Joumaa met his father, Hussein, in Denmark where he now lives. As they work their way to what was once Palestine, they travel through Lebanon where Hussein spent most of his life in the Baalbek refugee camp, in the Bekaa Valley. As time wore on he joined the Palestinian resistance. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: al jazeera enlish palestine awad joumaa Added: May 15, 2008
Our look at one man's journey home to what was once Palestine continues this hour. We last saw Hussein Joumaa in the Lebanese refugee camp where he grew up and fought with the Palestinian resistance. No longer a fighter and armed only with his Danish passport, he enters what is now Israel. In the final part of our series, Al Jazeera's Awad Joumaa takes his father home for the first time since he became a Palestinian refugee in 1948. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: al jazeera enlish palestine awad joumaa Added: May 15, 2008
With Israel and Hamas bickering over conditions, is a bilateral ceasefire possible? Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Inside Story Ceasefire al jazeera israel hamas omar soleiman egypt chief Added: May 15, 2008
With Israel and Hamas bickering over conditions, is a bilateral ceasefire possible? Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Inside Story Ceasefire al jazeera israel hamas omar soleiman egypt chief Added: May 15, 2008
As Israel celebrates its hard-fought achievements on its 60th birthday,a cloud of uncertainty hovers over the country. Where is Israel on its 60th birthday? Riz hosts a debate in Tel Aviv between right-wing politician Uzi Landau and left-wing politician Yossi Beilin. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Riz Khan Israel al jazeera arab Palestinians Uzi Landau Yossi Beilin Added: May 15, 2008
As Israel celebrates its hard-fought achievements on its 60th birthday,a cloud of uncertainty hovers over the country. Where is Israel on its 60th birthday? Riz hosts a debate in Tel Aviv between right-wing politician Uzi Landau and left-wing politician Yossi Beilin. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Riz Khan Israel al jazeera arab Palestinians Uzi Landau Yossi Beilin Added: May 15, 2008
Over 80 million people live in the Sichuan region, and Al Jazeera's correspondent in China, Tony Chen, says it feels as if everyone is out on high alert, that the rhythms of normal, everyday life stopped. People are evacuating from danger zones and homes just about everywhere are gone. The presence of rescue workers, tens of thousands of soldiers, the wail of ambulances go on and on. Cheng takes the viewer on a ride, following emergency teams up into the mountains, where one of the most remote villages are reached. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Al Jazeera al jazeera English china earthquake sichuan tony cheng Added: May 15, 2008
This week, 101 East asks if a culture of impunity is embedded in Indonesia. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: 101 East Indonesia impunity al jazeera human rights president suharto dictatorship Amnesty International abuse Added: May 15, 2008
