This Blog is intended for use by students in the Islamic Middle East course at Northfield Mount Hermon School and guest students and teachers from other participating schools.
Israel has started to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. It has relaxed some of the boarder blockades in recent weeks as a gesture of goodwill due to the upcoming Muslim holy festival Eid al-Adha.(The Festival of Sacrifice). Forty truckloads of food and medicine along with fuel supplies were delivered into Gaza. Also many foriegne journalists [...]
More than 500 Palestinian police reinforcements have been deployed in the city of Hebron in the West Bank. Hebron is city of 150000 Palestinians and contains a pocket of a few hundred Jews. It is also home to burial site of Abraham (sacred to both Jews and Muslims).The Palestinian forces will not guard the center [...]
A fight between a local Tribe, Doghmush, and Hamas broke out on Sept. 16th, 2008. Eleven died, and 40 were wounded by an attack on the Doghmush stonghold in Gaza. In this case the Hamas were attempting to quel a rising extremist group. The Doghmush have been connected for the kidnapping of a BBC reporter [...]
This a follow up article to the Women’s Rights Movement in the Middle East.
4 women were sentenced to 6 months jail time for participating in protests against the restrictions on women in the Middle East. This particular campaign started in March of ‘07 and is attempting to receive 1,000,000 signatures in support of their movement. [...]
BBC Middle East