Stories and News

Stories and News No. 570 My name is Suhaib Hijazi and I just learned that my brother Muhammad and I have won the World Press Photo 2013 . Share the winning photo, spread it everywhere, to remember, to keep alive the memory. However, I want you to remember me for this photo on the left... Picture from arabic.dci-palestine.org Do you see me? Look at my eyes carefully. Those are the eyes of a child who dreams the elder brother's happy smile. He is another child, whose joy makes happy his younger brother. A younger brother, me, who will continue to dream making happy his older brother, and so on from the beginning. So we'll never stop dreaming a better future for our people. Together. Forever... World Press Photo 2013 - Paul Hansen Also on Stories and News: Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner

Stories and News No. 287 I read that English students took to the streets in recent days to protest the threefold increase in tuition fees by the conservative government led by Prime Minister David Cameron. In particular, I also read that Charles and Camilla were attacked while they were in the car. The latter was daubed with white paint and hit by stones, leaving fortunately unharmed the two and their driver. The news and especially the video are around the world. The thing that puzzles me more is, as usual, the press comment, the authoritative newspapers which should also authoritatively reflect about the reasons for the situation. Most of the British media - among the many the Telegraph , the BBC and the Daily Mail , are in a choir on this one question: why did the police and security officers allowed the protesters to reach the Royal car? That is a sensible query, but, in my humble opinion, there is another question that interests me most, which is apparently incredibly ob...