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Other Voices in the Garden: Why Muslim Women Don’t Have Human Rights

Arzu Merali argues that the current human rights discourse discriminates against Muslim and ‘other’ women. Download the report here. The report uses Iran and Turkey as examples in some points as well as referring to the case of Gul Aslan. Arzu cites Katerina Dalacoura’s studies

Lebanon’s Forgotten Hostage

Arzu Merali looks at the case of Sheikh Abdulkareem Obaid, and the wider issues of the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon. Saged is 15 years old. Like many boys, he wants to be like his father. An architect and Muslim cleric, Abdulkareem Obaid is also

OPERATION GRAPES OF WRATH: Revisiting Genocide

Barrister Osama Daneshyar overviews the atrocities of the 1996 war on Lebanon. Lebanon is a country whose beauty is unmatched throughout the Middle East. An area of outstanding beauty is the south of the country with its flowing mountain streams and large numbers of orange