News and Views: Middle East
- IRAQ: Women forced to give up their jobs, marriages (IRIN News)
- Desperate Iraqi Refugees Turn to Sex Trade in Syria (Katherine Zoep, The New York Times)
- 'Democracy' is Hell (Katha Pollitt, The Nation)
- "No More Stones" A Public Seminar on the horrific stoning of Du'a, a 17-year-old girl, in Iraqi Kurdistan (May 18, London)
- Women Under Attack: The Talibanization of Iraq (Bay Fang, AlterNet)
- Baghdad Burning: "The Great Wall of Segregation" (Riverbend, Girl Blog from Iraq)
- The Hidden Face of the War (Gustavo Capdevila, Inter Press Service)
- The US has Returned Fundamentalism to Afghanistan (Malalai Joya, Common Dreams)
- Iraqi Women's Freedom Vanishing: Read All About It (Sheila Gibbons, Women's eNews)
- Iraq Refugee Crisis Engulfs Women Silenced by Rape (Rasha Elass, Women's eNews)
- Salvador Option Surfaces Again (Elizabeth DiNovella, The Progressive)
- The Iraqi Refugee Crisis (Kristele Younes, Foreign Policy In Focus)
- Iraq: Rape Cases Emerge From the Shadows (Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily, Inter Press Service)
- Apartheid By Any Other Name (Ronald Bruce St John, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- UN outraged by deadly attack on girls' school in Baghdad (UN News)
- AFGHANISTAN: Girls and women traded for opium debts (IRIN News)
- Iraqi Health Care: Hostage to War (Terry J. Allen, In These Times)
- Iraqi Women's Bodies Are Battlefields for War Vendettas (Kavita N. Ramdas, AlterNet)
- Behind The Gaza Breakdown (Chris Toensing, TomPaine.com)
- IRAQ: Abduction of Women on the Rise (Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily, Inter Press Service)
- IRAQ: Widows Become the Silent Tragedy (Dahr Jamail and Ali Al-Fadhily, Inter Press Service)
- IRAQ: It's Hard Being a Woman (Dahr Jamail and Ali Al-Fadhily, Inter Press Service)
- Women's Learning Partnership Announces New Initiative for Young Girls
- Palestinian Women Pay Health Toll at Checkpoints (Brenda Gazzar, Women's eNews)
- Bush's Failed Liberation Theology (Parastou Hassouri, TomPaine.com)
- Women's Lives 'No Better' in New Afghanistan (Justin Huggler, Independent/UK)
- Government Death Squads Ravaging Baghdad (Ali Al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service)
- Afghan Women Demand Protection in Wake of Official's Death (Aaron Glantz, OneWorld US)
- Hidden victims of a brutal conflict: Iraq's women (Peter Beaumont, The Observer)
- Cluster Bombs Imperil Southern Lebanon (Lin Noueihed, Boston Globe)
- REMINDER: Women as Equal Citizens: Advocating for Change in Muslim-Majority Societies (Sept. 6, Washington DC)
- Start Talking to Hezbollah (Lakhdar Brahimi, New York Times Op-Ed)
- Ceasefire and Frustration (Ian Williams, The Nation)
- Israelis, American Muslims for Peace (Ruth Conniff, The Progressive)
- US Military Assistance and Arms Transfers to Israel (World Policy Institute, Frida Berrigan and William D. Hartung)
- Israel Responsible for Qana Attack (Human Rights Watch)
- U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis (David S. Cloud and Helene Cooper, The New York Times)
- Letting Lebanon Burn (Editors, Middle East Report (MERIP))
- The UN's Mideast Mission (Ian Williams, The Nation)
- Cut Off and Under Siege in South Lebanon: ..."This time it's almost all women and children" (Time.com, Nicholas Blanford/Tyre)
- UN: Attacks Qualify as War Crimes, Officials Say (Warren Hoge, The New York Times)
- Iraqi Death Toll Rises Above 100 Per Day, U.N. Says (Kirk Semple, The New York Times)
- The Hidden War on Women in Iraq (Ruth Rosen, TomDispatch.com)
- Toward a Third Intifada (Fred Schlomka, Baltimore Sun)
- Palestinians Debate Women's Future Under Hamas (Brenda Gazzar, Women's eNews)
- Iran: The Day After (Phyllis Bennis, Common Dreams)
- "My Name is Rachel Corrie": A Message Crushed Again (Katharine Viner, Los Angeles Times Op-Ed)
- "BRING 'EM HOME NOW!" A concert to end the war... (NYC, March 20)
- Women stay vulnerable to violence in Afghanistan (Pakistan News Service)
- Beyond the Ballot (Noam Chomsky, Khaleej Times)
- In Iraq, security trumps women's rights (Howard LaFranchi, The Christian Science Monitor)
- Gaza revival battles Israeli controls (BBC News)
- Support for Cindy Sheenan Grows: August 17 & 20 Events (United for Peace and Justice)
- Stop US Funding of Israel's Illegal Wall (Jewish Voice for Peace)
- A Noose, Not a Bracelet (Naomi Klein, The Nation)
- There will be no Middle East peace without justice (Robert Fisk, The Independent)
- Rouge States Embrace: The Bush - Sharon Conference (Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies)
- Getting the Purple Finger (Naomi Klein, The Nation)
- Without Veil: Since the war, life has badly deteriorated for women in Iraq... (The Guardian)