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15 July 2003 -- 3:38 US CST


Diaries:
MABROUK
Toine van Teeffelen, Live from Palestine, 15 July 2003

Mabrouk (blessings to you) is an Arabic expression to
congratulate people. You not only use it on occasions like
a birthday but also when something new has been bought,
like clothes, or in the case somebody has moved to another
house. Saying mabrouk confirms that your interlocutor made
the right choice. Arab culture has more of such customary
expressions. They are not just polite ways of showing that
you know the rules of address - like in the West - but
they are said in an often quite enthusiastic and involved
manner showing that the speaker has been alert and has
detected something new or special. Toine van Teefelen
writes from Bethlehem.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article1705.shtml


Art, Music & Culture:
FROM A LOST REFUGEE
Shaker Khazal, Bourj al Barajneh, 15 July 2003

I come from a small deprived Palestinian refugee camp in
Lebanon called Bourj Al Barajneh. Something special about
my camp is that it rains day and night, during summer and
winter. It rains tears that are a result of future
worries, present fears, and past dark memories.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article1701.shtml


Human Rights:
REFUGEES ARE IRAQS FORGOTTEN PEOPLE
Report, Refugees International, 14 July 2003

On the grounds of the Haifa Sports Club in central
Baghdad, 250 Palestinian families live in a tent camp,
sweltering in heat that exceeds 125 degrees.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article1703.shtml


Human Rights:
ISRAELI PRISON GUARDS USE VIOLENCE AGAINST
PALESTINIAN FEMALE PRISONERS
Report, Public Committee Against Torture, 13 July 2003

The Israeli Public Committee Against Torture called on
Israels Minister of Internal Security, Tzahi Hanegbi, and
Prison Service Commissioner, Yakov Granot, to investigate
the violent behaviour of prison guards in Neve Tirza and
allow independent doctors to visit the female prisoners.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article1704.shtml

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