فتاة سودانية تتسبب في فوز الصحفية المصرية منى الطحاوي بجائزة.

Quote: لماذا لم تدرس بقية العالم الاسلامي هذه التجربة؟ هل العنصرية والشعور بأننا لا يمكن ان نتعلم من مسلمين سود هما السبب؟ ام اننا نعتبر المسلمين الافارقة اقل درجة منا؟ سمعنا الكثير عن مظالم العالم الاسلامي ضد الغرب. فالعرب والأفارقة عانوا جميعا من الاستعمار. الكثير من الدول الافريقية نالت استقلالها في نفس الوقت الذي استقلت فيه دول عربية. ترى، لماذا دفع الغضب الكثير من المسلمين في الكثير من هذه الدول، التي كانت مستعمرة، الى الكراهية والعنف، فيما لم يحدث ذلك للمسلمين الافارقة؟

Quote: كاتبة متميزة اقل ما يقال عنها انها تتميز بوعي كبير وحس انساني عالي

Quote: Hello I hope this finds you well. Before I introduce my latest column, I write to share some exciting news for me. I am honoured to report that on June 2, 2009, in Beirut, Lebanon, I won the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press for my oped on racism in the Arab world. The ceremony was held on the fourth anniversary of Samir's assassination. I am thrilled to win an award in his name and for a column that I am especially proud of. I love opinion writing and it's gratifying to be recognised for it everynow and then! The was published in Arabic in Qatar's Al Arab and Egypt's Al Masry Al Youm and in English in the International Herald Tribune. Al Arab http://alarab.com.qa/details.php?docId=64741&issueNo=345&secId=15 International Herald Tribune http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/opinion/10iht-edeltah...1.18556273.html?_r=1 My latest column below is on four Kuwaiti women's historic victory in their country's parliamentary elections in May. It appears in Wednesday's International Herald Tribune. As always, I look forward to feedback by email, my blog, Facebook or Twitter. Warmest Wishes Mona Website: www.monaeltahawy.com Blog: www.monaeltahawy.com/blog Women Win in Kuwait By MONA ELTAHAWY June 3, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/opinion/03iht-edeltahawy.html?ref=global NEW YORK — It’s wonderful to see the power of women put the fear of God into countries. At least that’s how I like to explain Saudi Arabia’s decision to delay municipal elections for two years. It’s all Kuwait’s fault. Kuwaiti women, to be precise, four of whom made history on May 17 by winning seats in their country’s parliamentary elections. Their victory was made all the more delicious because the fundamentalists who had long opposed women’s suffrage lost several of their seats in the Kuwaiti parliament. The very next day, Saudi Arabia extended the mandate of municipal councils by two years to give time to “expand the participation of citizens in the management of local affairs.” By the accounts of several activists, those local councils are useless. They were the result of the kingdom’s brief, first fling with democracy in 2005, and five women announced their candidacy. But those first nationwide elections were deemed off limits to women by ultraconservative clerics. Ever since, Saudi women and their supporters have continued to hope that King Abdullah — who is regarded as an ally — would open up the 2009 poll, slated for October, to women. So you can imagine how nervous the Saudis got at the sight of four newly minted Kuwait women parliamentarians. For years, Islamists in Kuwait’s parliament — from the same brand of ultraconservative Salafi Islam prevalent in Saudi Arabia — stood in the way of women’s suffrage. Women finally won their political rights in 2005, but failed in two subsequent elections to win seats in the 50-member parliament. But with neither quotas nor the backing of political parties, the four successful women in last week’s elections proved that even once-conservative voting habits can change. Islamists lost eight of their seats in parliament in a stinging rejection of their attempts to control Kuwaiti society, where they have in recent years succeeded in banning coeducation at universities and restricting public entertainment. They had also wanted to implement Islamic law. I am always stunned at the pontification of analysts who claim that Muslims want Islamists to run their societies for them. Muslims want choice, just like everybody else. In countries where Islamists are the only alternative to a dictator, that’s not choice, but a protest vote against the system. Given a choice, Kuwaitis picked four women parliamentarians in a country where just four years ago women had no political rights. Saudi Arabia knows too well the ideas that Saudi women can pick up from their Kuwaiti sisters. In the aftermath of Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, many Kuwaiti men and women fled the violence by getting into their cars and driving to neighboring Saudi Arabia. Forty-seven Saudi women famously violated the kingdom’s ban on driving by taking to the wheel in a convoy through the capital Riyadh. They were denounced as whores in mosques, banned from working for two years and had their passports temporarily confiscated. To this day, the country whose oil reserves fuel most of the world’s cars continues to deny half its population the right to drive a car, to vote and to run for office. Just as women faced down the fundamentalists in Kuwait, they will eventually win in Saudi Arabia. Brave Saudi women are increasingly speaking out, whether online, where they comprise more than half the kingdom’s bloggers, or through underground basketball and soccer tournaments that flout the ban on women in public sports. The backlash will be ugly, just as it was with the women who drove in 1990. Soon after King Abdullah appointed the kingdom’s first woman deputy minister earlier this year, conservative clerics called for a ban on women in media. But the religious hardliners are making Saudi Arabia a laughingstock. A Saudi judge told a seminar on domestic violence earlier in May that it was okay for a man to slap his wife for lavish spending, What kind of justice can women expect from a judge like that? Like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait is a Muslim majority country. So when those Saudi clerics who stand between women and their political rights claim to be upholding “Islam,” point to neighbor Kuwait and ask “whose Islam?” Point to Rola Dashti, Massouma al-Mubarak, Salwa al-Jassar and Aseel al-Awadhi — Kuwait’s new women parliamentarians — and say “Muslim Women Can!” Mona Eltahawy is an Egyptian-born writer on Arab and Muslim issues.

Quote: The Arab World's Dirty Secret: Racism Share Yesterday at 4:41pm By Mona Eltahawy Al Arab I was on my way home on the Cairo Metro, lost in thought as I listened to music when I noticed a young Egyptian taunting a Sudanese girl. She reached out and tried to grab the girl’s nose and mouth and laughed when the girl tried to brush her hand away. The Sudanese girl looked to be Dinka, from southern Sudan and not the northern Sudanese who “look like us”. She looked black African and was obviously in distress. I removed my headphones and asked the Egyptian woman “Why are you treating her like that?” She exploded into a tornado of yelling, demanding to know why it was my business. I told her it was my business because as an Egyptian and as a Muslim who was riding the Metro, her behaviour was wrong and I would not stay silent about it. I knew she was Muslim because she wore a scarf. I told her that the way she was treating the Sudanese girl made the scarf on her head meaningless. Her mother asked me why I didn’t cover my hair and I replied that I didn’t want to be a hypocrite like her and her daughter. As distressing as I found that young woman’s behaviour, I was even more distressed that the other women in the Metro car with us watched passively and said nothing. They made no attempt to defend the Sudanese girl nor to defend me when I confronted the Egyptian woman. After the Egyptian woman got off at her station, I asked the other women why they didn’t do anything. One woman said she stayed silent because the racist woman would’ve yelled at her and told her to mind her own business too. So what, I asked? If enough of the women had confronted her, she would have been outnumbered. I apologized to the Sudanese girl for the Egyptian woman’s behaviour and she thanked me for defending her and told me “Egyptians are bad”. I could only imagine other times she’d been abused publicly. We are a racist people in Egypt and we are in deep denial about it. On my Facebook page, I blamed racism for my Cairo Metro argument and an Egyptian man wrote to deny that we are racists and used as his proof a programme on Egyptian Radio featuring Sudanese songs and poetry! That’s like a racist white American denying he’s a racist because he listens to rap and some of his best friends are black. Our silence over racism in Egypt not only destroys the warmth and hospitality we are proud of as Egyptians, it has deadly consequences. What else but racism on Dec. 30, 2005 allowed hundreds of riot police to storm through a makeshift camp in central Cairo to clear it of 2,500 Sudanese refugees, trampling or beating to death 28 people, among them women and children? What else but racism lies behind the bloody statistics at the Egyptian border with Israel where, since 2007, Egyptian guards have killed at least 33 migrants, many from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, including a pregnant woman and a 7-year-old girl?

Quote: The Sudanese girl looked to be Dinka, from southern Sudan and not the northern Sudanese who “look like us”. She looked black African and was obviously in distress

Quote: ساعود لاحكي لك عن كيف كانت العلاقة بين الطلاب السودانيين الشماليين و الجنوبيين في مصر في تلك الفترة التي كنت ادرس فيها بمصر.

(عدل بواسطة عبدالعزيز الفاضلابى on 06-25-2009, 09:52 PM)

(عدل بواسطة salah almaleeh on 06-29-2009, 09:08 AM)

Quote: كتبت في بوست أخر امس أنه رغم الفصل النقابي إن صح التعبير و وجود الاتحاد العام للطلاب السودانيين و الاتحادات الفرعية لتمثيل الطلاب الشماليين و رابطة طلاب جنوب السودان SOSA الا أن العلاقات الانسانية التي تنشأ طبيعيا بين ابناء الوطن الواحد لم تكن غائبة بل كانت موجودة و بقوة رغم التأثير الواضح لوجود جهازين نقابيين إذ أنه من المعروف أن جل النشاط الاجتماعي و الثقافي يكون غالبا من خلال الاتحاد. السؤال هل كان المصريين فعلا يميزون بين الطالب الشمالي و الطالب الجنوبي؟؟ لا تحضرني اجابة واضحة الآن و اتمنى ممن يذكر شيئا في هذا الخصوص أن يرفد به هذا البوست.