the feminists of the arab world fight about rights jurisdiction. nomic issues like speaking about the body is extremely difficult. sort of going to six there are taboo subjects in those are the body and sex. so it gets changed and if we don't talk about the body in sex we'll never talk about the heart of the woman question it's going to feel what did i mena do that in a way she pulverize the taboo. and on her breast she wrote something extremely interesting my body belongs to me and is not the source of anyone's honor the home but the drama of societies that are preoccupied by custom because it goes well beyond religion. sometimes in a way we make islam responsible for sins it hasn't committed. the third but the fact that women's bodies are effectively the source of men's honor is a tragedy for women in this part of the world. to do. well something is in feminists have distanced themselves from i mean as act others see it as a turning point for their coolness. i mean you see i mean she just i mean that belongs to a new generation of feminists that

and yet things for arab women were very different fifty years ago. emancipation and equality seemed within reach as the countries gained independence women enjoyed considerable freedoms. and the political leaders of the time the liberators of the people declared that by people they also meant women. fifty years on women face increasing problems claiming or defending these hard won rights the situation of women has hardly improved or not at all what happened how can arab women shake up the society so blocked by sexist and patriarchal structures this film recounts the struggle and chants the history. genesee it is one of the countries where arab famine as i'm going back over a century is most deeply rooted. sharif as a diary is a pioneer of genesee and feminism at the july cemetery in tunis she is taking her daughter and granddaughter to visit the grave of a man who inspired her the author and reform to her dad who died in one nine hundred thirty five. that had no time to hold our demand of women's rights how he wanted women to be part of political lif

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the first arab israeli war going. on the twentieth of may nineteenth forty eight the united nations named its first mediator in palestine. the man who would take on the task was count full cabin adopt heroes of the white bus and. he was from that noble family he was a relative of the king and if so what he could deal very good with people meeting high and making compromises and things like that. at the end of may nine hundred forty eight bernadotte left paris for the middle east. seen off by his american born wife estelle. in a pointed to echo of the white buses campaign bernadotte is had his specially chartered plane painted white with the u.n. and red cross markings and. into the fire count but it is cut by united nations that last happy day it was time record ever. made him above suspicion of advantage of it in tel aviv here. first time his first task was to bring about a cease fire. which needed that he went to the different capitals in kind of shuttle diplomacy. which he really invented because everybody was very

i'm 100% wasp, but i speak arabic and have an arab wife with muslim relatives. my point is, you arabs and muslims need to come out of the closet. a huge, 62% of people have no idea, they have never met a muslim. and so the point is, you may know some guy mo and you have been bowling with him for ten years, and you're utterly clueless that he's muslim. and that causes cognitive dissonance because muslims are supposed to be bad, but mo, he's my bowling partner. now what do i do? so my point is, go beyond politics. every person in this room or every arab and muslim in the united states should get out of the closet. come out and cause cognitive dissonance. that's the way to change things. >> showing up. >> thanks. >> hi. i work for a magazine called "the washington report on middle east affairs." we have congressional scoreboards. we're keeping track of how people vote. but we've always been very tormented, conflicted, whatever, when we talk about arab americans running for office, because will we put a bull's eye on you for apac, so we're always afraid to help you,

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the rest are arabs. which means if you go to the old city of jerusalem if you don't want to get cheated you speak arabic. the place is still arab. it has been for 1,500 years. ooh years of some settlers from europe doesn't change anything. the most popular israeli lsh slush ban is a yemeni band that sings in arabic. okay? so the largest group now, the largest singular group of jews living in the israeli state are arab jews from morocco, tunisia, iraq, syria. so the place is arab, man. you can't do anything about it. it has been for a very long time. there's a reason they eat hummus and -- part of it is because they're trying to steal it but part of it is because that's what's there. i'm not worried about us losing our arab identity. we've done a very good job and the land has done a very good job at preserving that. but to me at the end of the day i'm very worried about dismembering and disjointing palestinian identity. that's why it's very important for me that we collectively articulate a vision of one

there were over half a million syrian arabs a mixed community with arab hebrew canaanite greek egyptian and possibly crusaders blood they and their forefathers of occupied the country for the best part of one thousand five hundred years they own the soil they profess the mohammedan faith they will not be content either to be exposed for jewish immigrants or to act merely as he was of wood and drawers of water to the latter. but his prescient remarks fell on deaf ears it's like who tells hyde bites at the end of the workout that it's meeting. it's a boy and so they witness the birth of an agreement to create a jewish national home as a baby in the middle east. the final draft of the balfour declaration was sixty seven words long. his majesty's government view with favor the establishment in palestine of a national home for the jewish people and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non jewish communities in palestine or the rights and

and the arab world, particularly the arabian gulf. the great pramst that have been organized by the national council, such as the model arab league and the the study abroad programs, really help build very important bridges between the united states and the arab world. when we talk about the middle east, it's too tempting and too easy to focus on the challenges than on the problems. so i genuinely appreciate the council's efforts to highlight the best of the arab world and to encourage and expose americans to the very best of our culture, our people, and our leaders. it's incredibly important to show how we are building a more positive path forward for our future. and dr. anthony, i want to say this on behalf of everyone here, thank you. we are grateful for everything you and the council does to build these bridges every day. [ applause ] another very big thank you goes to our guest of honor, general joe votel, who i have the pleasure of introducing today. while dr. anthony focuses on the future and the best of our region, general vot

arab help against the turks the sharif would be allowed or would be helped to get his independent arab kingdom over most of the arab world of today and that's what they promised him all these things you know are true but i really must go back to the basic point that that actually there was the sufferings of of the jews in russia and poland so i do question that there was suffering the problem with all this and with the balfour declaration is that what ever explanations we give none of them justified. doing what was done in a country which was already inhabited that's the fundamental flaw in the balfour declaration. that is the fundamental issue in this whole story ok that you're dealing with a country with an indigenous population to me so you cannot go and launch another people in such a country because there is simple i'm going to also want to do respond in one moment before i do in do you share go of his view that that is the fundamental flaw in the buffett declaration yes i do you know about that or to ration famously in a very short space has to be very significant qualifications.

for them an arab is an arab.september 2000 the palestinians started to shoot through the jewish neighborhoods, and the authorities had to protect the kindergarten over here, and they put up this wall put up by the neighborhood council. but nevertheless, it's quite ugly. but if they shoot from the other side toward the kindergarten, what other measure you can take in order to protect the children? >> before returning home we went to visit a palestinian farmer whose life was devastated when half of his land was taken by the israeli army to accommodate the bending of the wall. -- the building of the wall. >> the majority of his land and the better part of his land is beyond that fence. all these walls he built by breaking this sporn land with his wife and his children and all his hard work is gone. he cannot go down and tend to his trees or cultivate it. ♪ >> i feel like i haven't found any anchor for the light at the end of the tunnel. is there any chance for people to believe that there is something else? >> i use

he is introduced by the ambassador of the united arab emirates. this is half-an-hour. >> i want to give a special thank you to dr. john duke anthony. of thehony has been one most active proponents for bringing people who care about this region together. not just through this conference but all the time. and theership that he council have displayed has really helped bring together the u.s. and arab world, particularly the gulf area programs organized by the national council, such as the study abroad program really helped build very important bridges between the united states and the arab world.

(woman speaking arabic): (crying) >> smith: and who do you blame for the war?new what the fate of those two girls was going to be. i don't know what happened to them. what i do know is that health workers in yemen say that every ten minutes, a child dies of preventable causes. (car horns honking) americans may not be aware of american involvement in the war in yemen, but yemenis, in sanaa and in northern yemen, certainly know where the weapons are coming from. just a few days after we arrived, there was a huge rally in the middle of sanaa called the "say no to american terrorism" rally. (man speaking arabic over loudspeaker) >> smith: thousands gathered to protest the arrival of president trump in riyadh, where he announced his intention to approve a $110 billion arms package to the saudis. >> we respect the united states of america, and we hold respect in our hearts. but we came here in order to express our outrage against the united states policy. (chanting in arabic) >> it was pretty evident that we were an american tv crew, but absolutely no hostility was d

and the arab world, particularly the aa rabian gulf. really helped build very important bridges between the united states and the arab world. when we talk about the middle east, it's too tempting and too easy to focus on the challenges than on the problems. i genuinely appreciate the council's efforts to highlight the best of the arab world and to encourage and expose the americans to the very best of our culture, our people and our leaders. it's incredibly important to show how we are building a more positive path forward for our future. dr. anthony i will say on behalf of everyone here, thank you. we are grateful for everything you and the council does to build these bridges every day. [ applause ] another thank you goes to general votel. he is very much in the present taking on some of the big challenges in some one of the most active aors. from sigh nied to syria, he certainly has a lot on his plate and as you see, there are no shortage of threats across the region. and this brings us to the u.s./uae security partnership, a partners

they wouldn't say they are bilingual but the idea that egyptian arabic is a threat to standard arabic, no. as i mentioned this there's an article in the new yorker last week that actually addresses that almost beautiful language. lindquist gets his article thinks this'll run five minutes but it dwells in standard arabic and egypt's and arabic and anti-people need to let go of the egyptian because it threatens the standard, no. it's the other way around. black english is the same thing. what it is is a black english speakers are, he too was some terminology, by classic, two tongues. this isn't a term made up for black people in the united states. this is people speaking all over the world. the idea that you learn something on your mothers needing or fathers knee and then you go to your school and pretty much of that same family of spg is what your teachers use and the same way of speaking is on the printed page and everybody around you speak that way and so you have learned this standard form way of speaking at home. that sounds so normal to us. that is very strange. i would venture th

and the arab world, particularly the arabian gulf. the programs organized by the national council such as the model arab league and the study abroad programs, really helped build important bridges between the united states and the arab world. when we talk about the middle east, it is too tempting and too easy to focus on the challenges and problems. i genuinely appreciate the council's efforts to highlight the best of the arab world and to encourage and expose americans to the best of our culture, our people, and our leaders. it is incredibly important to show how we are building a more positive path forward for our future, and dr. anthony, i want to say this on behalf of everyone here. we are thankful for everything you in the council does to build these bridges every day. [applause] yousef al-otaiba: another big thank you goes to our guest of honor i'm a general joseph hotel votel.r, general joe he is taking on some of the biggest challenges and what of the most active aor's. from iraq to afghanistan, isis and al qaeda, hezbollah, h

he is introduced by the ambassador of the united arab emirates. this is half-an-hour. >> i want to give a special thank you to dr. john duke anthony. of thehony has been one most active proponents for bringing people who care about this region together. not just through this conference but all the time. and theership that he council have displayed has really helped bring together the u.s. and arab world, particularly the gulf area programs organized by the national council, such as the study abroad program really helped build very important bridges between the united states and the arab world. when we talk about the middle east it is too tempting and too easy to focus on the challenges and the problems you i genuinely -- to encourage and expose americans to the very best of our culture. clearly important to show that we are building for our future. dr. anthony, on behalf of everyone there, thank you. we are grateful for everything you and the count of those to build these bridges every day you -- every day. another thank you goes to the guest of h

finally, as i noted when reduce the expansion, it's largely about the arab spring. this was pretty clear in tunisia where the government felt a result of arab spring protests that were particularly high in the areas that were hotspots. in contrast, along the eastern coast of libya and its economic center, where fighters actually came below the national rate, there were about a third as many protesters per capita as the were in grand tunis. in addition, we see on an individual level when you look at the data, about 7.5% of the fighters who mobilized from tunisia were recommended by one figure who came out of sharia and himself in western libya, where he was running a training camp. that's again an example of how these dynamic arab spring really created the foundation that isis set itself to the top. so the basic conclusion that i will float for you here that we're still looking at, is in many ways the counter messaging and the idea of countering violent extremism that is become a very important part of countering isis recruitment, doesn't make sense in much of north

the syrian democratic forces a coalition of kurds and arabs backed by the u.s. began the offensive in june i said fighters held ground for five months but the armed groups defense lines were eventually broken by a continual wave of strikes and shelling but. we control rock up but as you know there are mines that we need to clear and we have to make sure there are laws to fighters hiding in tunnels we are now clearing all the areas we captured civilians continue to flee to safe areas this is a family that has just a refugee camp controlled by the. tens of thousands of people have been affected by the fighting they mostly live in poorly equipped camps north of the city. i heard the news of a cease fire and took my family but then we came under fire the journey was tough because we had to walk through entire areas reduced to rubble now that iraq is under their control fighters got the order to move south towards daters or i sells last area of control in syria. and advance that is likely to put the kurds on a collision course with the. syrian army which is also laun

but is the country his government founded the arab spring. we do see the importance of parts of the country that have been marginalized, mount sinai particular, and there is some dynamic between sinai and the gaza strip that shows up in where people are reporting previous jihad. really, that is all tentative and we did not examine each of them. we viewed it as part of the distinct regional grouping that seemed to be different from what we were looking at and tied together the north african country. >> right here in the front. >> john hogan. giving your findings of alllized phenomenon, unhappy provinces are unhappy in their own way. did you explore the use of qualitative methods that are specifically designed to test hypotheses? did you test any sample size of one? >> sample size on one being what? >> these provinces are unhappy. in its own way, how and why? yeah, ok. no, what i would love to accomplish with this paper to be honest -- i think this paper and our presentation, the goal is -- there are two dozen hypotheses out there for more rigo

his cartoons often go viral and also reverberate outside the arab world they tend to have a political message such as his depiction of attempts in france to ban burqini. then tenets. gave this way for us for a new way of publishing or when you way of reaching to people i tried when i first started i tried and i tried and i tried to work for traditional media i tried to work for a newspaper i got kicked out of an editor's office i you know i sent my work i said i don't want money on this one might think published it was then that he decided to publish on social media at about the same time in late two thousand and ten protests against the tunisian government began to grow those localized demonstrations soon developed into what became known as the arab spring are biased cartoons were symbols of these protests with this work chief among them it deliberately targeted the dictatorships in tunisia algeria egypt and she down the image inspired activists in the entire region. satire was always controlled and looked out and you know dangerous way in the region because you know a big part of ou

al-jazeera arabic would cover the middle eastern arab speaking audience and al-jazeera -- al-jazeeraenglish would do it for the english-speaking audience. >> thank you. i was wondering if you know if there was ever any conversation about the decision to come to the american market around changing the name of the network before going on air and why was it that they decided against that and one of the reasons i think about this is when you look at other subsidiaries of the media network they made this decision when going into the european market for sports for example to change the al-jazeera sports network to tv and when you watch mtv now for example there's no direct way of knowing that it's connected to al-jazeera so i'm wondering what changed? why was the decision calculus so different when we know very well what kind of challenges in the american market when it comes to islamaphobia? >> because i'm really exhausted i'm going to cheat and read the paragraph but that is a great question. even russia today at some point tries to cleanse the brand. under the direction of tony berman t

quickly caved in and admitted many lebanese and arab political figures. because of my position in the ministry of finance he said it was easy for me to communicate with politicians and entice them to disclose information they knew. was interrogated in an office at the defense ministry. would you. well as a mid-level what i would do i mean. you're in the living room was. as really a love muscle and how to get the heart of kids are scary were seriously you would believe me when phyllis any. given simile. cohen's trial began on the twenty seventh of october one thousand nine hundred eighty one and received huge media attention. but interestingly nothing came out during the trial about the many lebanese and other arab politicians who'd been caught in her clan this time webb. this is a really. well a good imo and the girls were on their. level of it. we live in the. level of. only. on the twenty fifth of july one thousand and sixty two. and was sentenced to death. but you to international pressure including from israel her sentence was commuted to twenty years

versus dictator freedom of the press and expression are under siege the world over notably in the arab world online satirists and cartoonists are now speaking up via the internet. picking donald trump's visit to saudi arabia. it was drawn by this man by a originally from sudan the self described social media revolutionary non-news in cata i buy a has been publishing on social networks for the past. i exist on social media site is the the only. but i have so. for me it's a bridge to reach people to do to do to start conversation in the age of snap chat and twitter messages have a very short life span. but are bio wants to leave a lasting visual impression for instance he placed two well known media images side by side to help shed new light on the hopeless plight of children in syria. his cartoons often go viral and also reverberate outside the arab world they tend to have a political message such as his depiction of attempts in france to ban book ynys. then tenets. gave the spirit of the way for us for a new way of publishing or with new way of reaching to people i tried when i first s

pincer move through the arab world. president trump has accomplished something that people would have mocked and laughed at during the campaign. fell. the physical destruction of the isis caliphate would shock the world on its rapid rise. and put the world back on its heels about how can this group of young people with a couple of spiritual leaders and a call to arms they had from the 900-year-old mosque in mosul, how could they have an economic capital in mosul and spiritual capital in raqqa. it was breathtaking, the whole world backed off. of presidenths trump's strategy, executed by general mattis, and that was not a word attrition. it was specific from day one, this will be a war of annihilation. we will physically annihilate the caliphate. that is what has been accomplished. summit, theat the second part of it, they went into the summit, we went into the summit with saudi arabia and others and the number one thing was, we must take care of the financing of radical islam. there can be no more games? you can't -- gam