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Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud

1974 - Feb. 5, 2011

Mahmoud, egyptian journalist, was shot on January 29 as anti-Mubarak protests in Cairo turned violent. His wife, Inas Abdel-Alim, told Al-Jazeera that her husband had stepped onto his office balcony to take video of a confrontation between security forces and demonstrators on the street when security forces spotted him.

Abdel-Alim said that several witnesses told her a uniformed police captain yelled at Mahmoud to stop filming, but a sniper shot him in the head before he could react. "They meant to kill him; they aimed at his head with live ammunition," Abdel-Alim said on Al-Jazeera. "The perpetrator did this to him because he was filming what was happening. They didn't want us to cover the massacre that happened that day."

Mahmoud died after six days in a hospital in Cairo. His death was the first reported media fatality during the Egyptian uprising that started on January 25.

source: Committee to Protect Journalists

Hassan Massoudy´s elegant calligraphy depicts the four seasons of the garden. From the icy palettes of winter, to delicate spring growth; from the dazzling sunshine and blooms of summer through the fading hues of autumn, he captures in calligraphy what countless poets have wrought with words. Massoudy draws his seasonal inspirations from writters, artists and luminaries such as Kahlil Gibran, Henri Matisse and Lao Tzu, as well as from Hungarian, Spanish Turkish and Japanese proverbs. Hassan Massoudy was born in Najaf (Iraq). He moved to France in 1969, where he studied at L´Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

His work has been exhibited throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, and is in the permanent collections of the British Museum and the Jordan National Gallery od Fine Arts, among others. Nineteen books of his calligraphy have been published in France, along with his autobiography.

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"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

Ralph Ellison

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"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

James Baldwin

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"Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the color of your skin, to such extent that you bleach to get like the white man? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose, and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself, from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?"

Malcolm X alias Malik Al-Shabazz
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Amadou Diallo

(September 2, 1975--February 4, 1999)

- was a 23-year-old Guinean immigrant in New York City who was shot and killed on February 4, 1999 at 1157 Wheeler Ave. in the Bronx by four NYC Police Department plain-clothed officers
- Diallo was unarmed at the time of the shooting In Memory of Amadou Diallo

Depuis l’émergence de l’Islam politique dans les sociétés musulmanes des années 1980, médias et experts occidentaux ont multiplié discours et analyses sur les relations entre Islam et politique, sans éviter trop souvent les pièges de l’essentialisme, voire de la simple islamophobie. Mais les nombreux penseurs du monde musulman qui ont abordé ces questions restent largement méconnus, en particulier ceux qui s’expriment en arabe.

D’où l’intérêt majeur de cette traduction du troisième volume d l’œuvre célèbre du philosophe marocain Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri, Critique de la raison arabe : cet ouvrage propose une analyse critique, de l’intérieur, du patrimoine politique islamique, qui éclaire d’un jour nouveau les manifestations de l’Islam politique moderne – fondamentalisme, extrémisme religieux, etc.