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28.2%ANMag Issue 21 Public Surveillance
Osama Bin Laden: Changing Course?
By Yousef Salama, Staff Writer
Toronto, Canada − For the past decade, Osama Bin Laden has eluded capture, terrorized the minds of the Western world and has quite simply been the most-vilified human on the planet. But after his speech on September 6, 2007, might he be turning heads in his favour? Might he be showing some sympathy for those hurt by globalization? Might he be compassionate about the environment? [More]
Arranged for the Enraged
By Suha Karaky, Managing Editor
Beirut, Lebanon − Fatima, a 24-year-old lonely and shy Muslim bank employee found that the best solution to meet a young man was Venus, a matchmaking agency. Jessica, a 26-year-old happy and extremely sociable Christian graphic designer met her prince charming at a friend’s Halloween party − being the social ground in which males and females meet, mingle and perhaps marry. [More]
Naughty Palestinians
By Farah Salka, Staff Writer
Beirut, Lebanon − A couple of days back, a crowd of residents in the area of Akkar were protesting quite ferociously against the work of the United Nations Relief and Words Agency (UNRWA) in their village, obstructing by that all possible means of working on re-accommodating the Palestinian refugees who have been displaced from the Nah el-Bared camp due to recent events. Those refugees have been residing in the Beddawi camp since then. The Lebanese families now believe that those Nahr el-Bared camp residents are the root cause of the suffering they have incurred over the past months, which might in a sense be very true. [More]
The United Nations and its Effects on Stability in the Middle East
By Vanessa Zuabi, Staff Writer
Paris, France − Since its creation in 1945, the United Nations has played a consistent role in mediating crisis in the Middle East; whether through human rights programs, emergency relief, or economic and political development policy. No doubt, their presence has allowed for fact-based knowledge and analysis on regional conflicts and solutions. Given the current status of countries such as Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon, it is evident that while the United Nations has quelled tensions and provided much needed humanitarian relief to people desperately affected by war, they have failed to bring about a true change in diplomatic relations between countries. [More]
Secular: The Story of Turkey’s Gul
By Hanin Ababneh, Staff Writer
Amman, Jordan - Secularism has popularly been defined as the detachment of the church (as an embodiment of the institution of religion as a whole not only that of Christianity). However, with the new strokes occurring in Turkey, has Abdullah Gul been able to defy this definition or merely emphasize it further? [More]
Franchising and Nouveau-Consumerism in the Middle East
By Naseem Javed, Contributing Writer
Toronto, Canada − Two things; firstly among all of the great business concepts of the last few decades, the franchise model has always surfaced to the very top. Secondly, over the next decade, the introduction of hundreds of fresh, locally-nurtured franchise concepts emerging within Dubai and the Gulf States (GCC) will set the stage for a great revolution of nouveau-consumerism. So what are the four key factors driving this movement? [More]