Abdelhafid Missouri
Browsing through Arab media tonight Wednesday December 30th, 2009, I decided to take a look at the Algerian echoroukonline, written in Arabic. To the upper left corner of the page was a video by Aminatou Haidar thanking the Algerian government and people for their support during her self-imposed hunger strike in Lanzarote, Spain a [...]

Below is the translation of the first part of the Interview Journalist Mohamed Said el-Ouafi, Director of elmuhajer.net had with Prof. Abdelhafid Missouri in Arabic in Washimgton DC:
The second part will be available soon
Said: welcome wherever you are in another event of the series we dedicate to the issue of the Moroccan
community abroad. My guest [...]

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
December 17, 2009
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I was pleased to hear of the government of Morocco’s decision to re-admit Aminatou Haidar – a Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Prize recipient – on humanitarian grounds following her month-long hunger strike in Spain. This humanitarian gesture is reflective of the true spirit and generosity of the [...]

Thomas Hollowell
…exploring the world one story at a timeThomas Hollowell’s writings and photography on travel, health, fitness, and lifestyle have appeared in both national and international publications, namely NHA Magazine, Go World Travel, Africa Today, Hustler, Yale Q2, among others. His newest nonfiction is Allah’s Garden: A True Story of a Forgotten War in the [...]

By: Abdelhafid Missouri
This article is a call to Moroccan community activists and members to develop a long-term strategy for empowerment based on a number of criteria and political tools.
Let us first define empowerment. It is that stage of maturity when an individual or a group has the capability to effect instantaneous or deferred change [...]

Article translated from hespress.com by Abdelhafid Missouri.
Tuesday October6, 2009
Muhammad el-Raji:
The racism of the children of our own skin is more bitter, tougher and more severe
1- In a long article translated by some Moroccan newspapers to Arabic, the Algerian journalist Mustapha Kessous wrote in the French “Le Monde” paper, for which he works, details of his [...]

our next meeting (and last of the semester!) is tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15th at 9PM in the Fels Board Room. Our very distinguished speaker will be Ketevan Abutidze, a Penn undergraduate student from the former Soviet republic of Georgia, who will give a talk about Georgian politics and its intersection with international security (see attached [...]

Article translated from hespress.com by Abdelhafid Missouri
Monday August 31st, 2009
Mohamed el-Raji
1- Zainab is lying in bed now in the hospital, alone and in the company of the police officer chosen to watch her. Zainab is not a political prisoner transferred from a prison to a hospital for treatment. She is a little girl of eleven [...]

By: Abdelhafid Missouri
Some time ago during a TV program on al-Jazeera, I heard Dr. Faisal angrily saying to one of his guests who spoke favorably of the US that the situation in America is so bad that many states have already started to call for independence.
What, Mr. Faisal?!
Such is your habit that fans [...]

An Evening of Arab Music
December 4, 2009, 8:00 PM
Bodek Lounge at Houston Hall, U-Penn
3417 Spruce Street, West Philadelphia
Please join us tomorrow for an evening of classical Arab Music, presented by Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, and co-sponsored by University of Pennsylvania and Intercultural Journeys.
Enjoy a repertoire of classical Arab music by legendary composers — Mohammed Abdel [...]