http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/ Articles of interest and intrigue en-US 2009-01-29T07:00:00-05:00 This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/FnYenWBKLT0/-bringing-sesame-street-back-to-palestine.html Entertainment Media Watch Television Natasha 2009-01-29T07:00:00-05:00 RAMALLAH - A US-funded, Palestinian-produced version of Sesame Street, or Shara'a Simsim in Arabic, is poised to hit the market in early 2009. Daoud Kuttab, Director of Pen Media, a Palestinian...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2009/01/-bringing-sesame-street-back-to-palestine.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/j9VDN0gBRtc/antiarab-graffiti-stuns-parishioners-at-maryland-churches.html Extremism Religion War Natasha 2009-01-28T18:20:45-05:00 By Erin Donaghue It was Jan. 13, a Tuesday evening, when parishioners at the Sts. Peter and Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church on River Road first noticed the graffiti. It was scrawled in blue spray...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2009/01/antiarab-graffiti-stuns-parishioners-at-maryland-churches.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/wfI_sQJ5J2g/how-alarabiya-got-the-obama-interview.html Media Watch Politics Natasha 2009-01-28T13:30:00-05:00 By Scott MacLeod How did a journalist for an Arab-language broadcaster score the first television interview granted by President Barack Obama? Well, at first, Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2009/01/how-alarabiya-got-the-obama-interview.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/gE948Vaa1Bw/report-senior-saudi-cleric-oks-girls-to-marry.html Culture almighty Extremism Religion Natasha 2009-01-14T20:48:00-05:00 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) A pan-Arab newspaper quotes Saudi Arabia's most senior Muslim cleric as saying it is OK for 10-year-old girls to marry.The London-based Al-Hayat newspaper also quotes Sheik...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2009/01/report-senior-saudi-cleric-oks-girls-to-marry.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/c5XhffsbZ9c/academy-snubs-captain-abu-raed-gomorra-industry-upset.html Entertainment Jordan in the news Weblogs Natasha 2009-01-13T20:43:00-05:00 Last year, the Academy's foreign language "phase 1 committee" -- which consists of several hundred Los Angeles-based members who divide up and screen the foreign entries, with minimal attendance...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2009/01/academy-snubs-captain-abu-raed-gomorra-industry-upset.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/FCpFGQMM500/240000-awarded-to-man-forced-to-cover-arabic-tshirt.html Culture almighty Terrorism Natasha 2009-01-06T19:16:11-05:00 NEW YORK (AFP) – An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded 240,000 dollars in compensation, campaigners said Monday. Raed Jarrar received...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2009/01/240000-awarded-to-man-forced-to-cover-arabic-tshirt.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/EXcAsg40nP0/fraud-undermines-west-bank-land-deals.html Politics Natasha 2008-12-18T00:56:00-05:00 BURQA, West Bank - The transformation of a piece of West Bank land from a Palestinian field into a Jewish settlement has roots in an unlikely place — Orange County, Calif. — and in a document that a...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2008/12/fraud-undermines-west-bank-land-deals.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/qkrkHlx2pvA/arabs-hail-shoehurling-journalist.html Media Watch Politics Natasha 2008-12-15T20:00:00-05:00 BAGHDAD - Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets Monday to demand the release of a reporter who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush, as Arabs across many parts of the Middle East hailed the...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2008/12/arabs-hail-shoehurling-journalist.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/dqpaHHjm8K8/hooked-on-chill-pills-in-wartorn-gaza.html Disturbing report War Natasha 2008-12-14T20:10:00-05:00 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The new drug overtaking the Gaza Strip doesn't stimulate hallucinations or give endurance at the dance club. It merely chills you out, which is exactly what many Gazans say...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2008/12/hooked-on-chill-pills-in-wartorn-gaza.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/20geA1QgtGI/guerilla-street-artist-princess-hijab-hits-paris-.html Culture almighty Entertainment Religion Natasha 2008-12-11T16:46:00-05:00 I admit, the title put me off a little. Princess Hijab? But when I looked through her flicker albums, I was blown away. Princess Hijab is an anonymous 20-year-old guerilla street artist based in...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2008/12/guerilla-street-artist-princess-hijab-hits-paris-.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/msE4UxoDs5k/cairo-activists-use-facebook-to-rattle-regime.html Media Watch Politics Web/Tech Natasha 2008-12-10T16:54:00-05:00 By David Wolman July 23, 2008: Under the scorching sun on a beach in Alexandria, Egypt, a few dozen political activists snap digital pictures and chatter nervously. Many of them wear matchingwhite...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2008/12/cairo-activists-use-facebook-to-rattle-regime.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/DWdDsaOfjxI/as-taboos-ease-saudi-girl-group-dares-to-rock.html Entertainment Music Religion Natasha 2008-12-08T18:51:00-05:00 By Robert F. Worth JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — They cannot perform in public. They cannot pose for album cover photographs. Even their jam sessions are secret, for fear of offending the religious...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2008/12/as-taboos-ease-saudi-girl-group-dares-to-rock.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/cJvLL1vUmJc/as-turmoil-ebbs-iraqi-women-seek-freedom-of-road-again.html Features War Natasha 2008-12-02T20:19:00-05:00 By Mary Beth Sheridan BAGHDAD -- The black-masked militias have vanished from most Baghdad streets, and the car bombings are down to one or two a day. So one recent afternoon, Hadeel Ahmed, a...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2008/12/as-turmoil-ebbs-iraqi-women-seek-freedom-of-road-again.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/FFhG-BVhLsM/my-wife-wears-hijab-i-wish-she-didnt.html Commentary Natasha 2008-11-21T19:05:00-05:00 By Robin Yassin-Kassab When I first saw my wife, she was seated in the middle of a crowded room, she had her eyes fixed on me, and she had a luxuriously unruly cascade of hair. We started talking,...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2008/11/my-wife-wears-hijab-i-wish-she-didnt.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/_WhLbydqrBU/mufti-let-men-and-women-pray-together.html Religion Natasha 2008-11-21T18:38:00-05:00 SYDNEY -- The Mufti of Australia wants to allow men and women to pray together in the country's mosques, a break with tradition observers say may anger some Muslims. Sheik Fehmi Naji el-Imam argues...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2008/11/mufti-let-men-and-women-pray-together.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/fWm7P2VpPDU/escape-to-dubai.html Culture almighty Development Features Natasha 2008-11-16T17:44:00-05:00 Business is booming right now! I mean, the place has what, double-digit GDP growth? Like, that’s crazy!” Brooke Butler tucks her silken hair behind her ears, flashes a wide smile, and digs into her...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2008/11/escape-to-dubai.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/yEd3GhXTmWw/abused-labor-concers-nyu-guggenhem-in-uae.html Development Disturbing report Natasha 2008-11-07T18:40:00-05:00 By Megan Chuchmach In a rush to establish outposts in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, venerable American institutions, including New York University and the Guggenheim Museum of Art, are not...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2008/11/abused-labor-concers-nyu-guggenhem-in-uae.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/5kIlID-tI-4/-egyptian-sexual-harasser-jailed.html Culture almighty Natasha 2008-10-21T16:37:00-04:00 An Egyptian man has been jailed for three years with hard labour for sexual harassment of a woman in the street. Sharif Gommaa was also ordered to pay 5,001 Egyptian pounds ($895) damages to Noha...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2008/10/-egyptian-sexual-harasser-jailed.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/rWyLTfcj0IA/dubai-deals-with-expat-debauchery.html Culture almighty Development Natasha 2008-10-18T16:22:00-04:00 DUBAI: Dubai may be the playground of the Middle East, but for expats and tourists, play time here can get out of hand. In one famous case of expat debauchery this summer, Britons Vince Acors, a...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2008/10/dubai-deals-with-expat-debauchery.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natashatynes/newswire-burner/~3/nZaLFCN3G3I/madaba-mosque-h.html Jordan in the news Religion Natasha 2008-10-16T16:44:43-04:00 By Jumana Al Tamimi Dubai: A newly built masjid in a Jordanian city was named Al Maseeh Eisa Bin Mariam (Jesus Christ Son of Mary) in a bid to show Muslims and Christians can coexist. This comes amid...<br/> <br/> [This represents only a content summary. Visit natastynes.com/newswire for the full story.]http://www.mentalmayhem.net/newswire/2008/10/madaba-mosque-h.html http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/fb_pwrd.gifhttp://www.feedburner.com