17/06/2008, Cage Prisoners
A veteran of Israeli gaols, wheelchair bound Mahmoud Abu Rideh is a stateless Palestinian, who has indefinite leave to remain in the UK. His family are British citizens. Following a police raid on his home in December 2001, Abu Rideh spent the next three and a half years detained without trial in HMP [...]
Moazzam Begg Interviews Mahmoud Abu Rideh
Posted on June 23, 2008 by Julaybib
AFRICA: Mind your language – a short guide to HIV/AIDS slang
Posted on June 23, 2008 by Julaybib
IRIN PLUS NEWS
JOHANNESBURG, 18 June 2008 (PlusNews) – HIV has hit our lives, our families, our economies; it also shapes the way we talk. IRIN/PlusNews looks at how the virus and its impact translates into everyday speech from the streets of Lagos to the townships of Johannesburg, and finds that despite the billions of dollars [...]
“Never even ‘eard of ‘im!”
Posted on June 23, 2008 by Julaybib
Islamic scholar voted world’s No 1 thinker
Robert Tait, The Guardian
A hitherto largely unknown Turkish Islamic scholar, Fethullah Gülen, has been voted the world’s top intellectual in a poll to find the leading 100 thinkers. Gülen, the author of more than 60 books, won a landslide triumph after the survey – which is organised by the [...]
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