ipernity: Aref Nammari (goplayer)'s articles

Critique group

- 10 months ago - 9 comments

Some time ago--it seems like ages ago--the critique group was born. For a little while there was a bit of activity but then things went dormant. I and others think that there is a need for some thoughtful discussion about photography in general and especially a place where people could express their thoughts as they look at others pictures. The purpose is to provide feedback and an attempt to help improve both our photograhy work as well as objectively evaluating photographs. None of us is an…

Blog

- May 6, 2012 - 6 comments

I just started a blog about photography in general. I am not quite sure where will it go but it is an idea I have been toying with for some time now and finally decided to go for it. The blog is photo-in-focus please visit and subscribe if you like it.

NOT WELCOME

- July 30, 2011 - 5 comments

The video speaks for itself. No comment is necessary.

Condolences

- July 24, 2011 - 1 comment

Just a short message to express my great sadness about the murders of innocent people by a criminal terrorist in Norway. My deepest and sincere sympathies and condolences to all my friends and to the people of Norway. Solidarity in this difficult time.

Bedouin children hope their West Bank school will be spared Israel's bulldozers

- June 20, 2011 - 4 comments

Story from the Guardian Sunday 12 June 2011 By Harriet Sherwood Pupils who scramble through drainage pipe to attend school wonder if their tyre and mud building will still be there next term Nisreen, eight, and her sister Iman, six, in front of the Khan al-Ahmar primary school in the West Bank. Photograph: Harriet Sherwood Each morning, they scrabble through a drainage pipe under a busy main road slicing through the unforgiving landscape between Jerusalem and…

White-shirts in Jerusalem

- June 4, 2011 - 3 comments

There were the black-shirts, Brown-shirts and now in Israel there are the White-shirts. The video is from "Jerusalem day celebration" to commemorate the "unification" (i.e. occupation and illegal annexation of East Jeuraslem to the Zionist state). The fascists chanting "Muhammad is dead" and "death to leftists" as well as other provocative and hateful chants. The situation would have been utterly different had those been Palestinian or anti-occupation Israelis. The special forces would have been beating and arresting them (see the second video which was taken during a demonstration of solidarity against the inauguration of a new settlement in Ras El-Amud)

Happy May Day

- May 1, 2011 - 2 comments

I wish all a very happy May Day. The struggle for human dignity continues. Arise, ye workers from your slumber, Arise, ye prisoners of want. For reason in revolt now thunders, and at last ends the age of cant! Away with all your superstitions, Servile masses, arise, arise! We'll change henceforth the old tradition, And spurn the dust to win the prize! So comrades, come rally, And the last fight let us face. The Internation…

One Democracy, One Solution, One person One Vote

- March 31, 2011

One State, One Democracy for Palestine and Israel

“Animals in a zoo have a bigger cage than one they’re putting our family in”

- March 3, 2011

The last few weeks when the people in Tunisia, Egypt, Lybia, Yemen, Bahrain rose to demand their dignity and rights back, we have heard the self rightous and unbelievably hypocritical declarations from the European and US leaders calling for respect of human rights. The hypocrisy is fully illustrated by the US veto of a UN Security Council resolution declaring the Israeli settlements illegal. I suppose that the US grand standing and declarations regarding human rights and the respect for the rule of law does not apply to its "friends". Stripping Palestinians of their land, putting them in cages, restricting their freedom of movement, blockading them and denying their right to self determination are not violations of human rights, so it appears, because Palestinians are plainly not considered human by the US adminstration and its cronies and lap-dogs the EU. The justification given for the veto was that the resolution does not help the "peace process"!!!! What peace process may I ask? What peace are we talking about? What the US and Israel want is capitulation and surrender not peace. This will not happen, not now that the spring of freedom has come to the Middle East. The Palestinians spirit wil never ever be broken.

Rise Up انهض

- February 21, 2011 - 4 comments

In solidarity with all peoples fighting for freedom. The song is a poem Inhadh (Rise Up) by the Tunisian poet Abu Al-Qassem Al-Shabi.

Hands soaked in Blood

- February 19, 2011 - 4 comments

My heart is heavy and full of sadness when I hear about the number of deaths and the brutality that the people of Yemen, Bahrain and Libya had to suffer. The murderers who rule those countries and others like them around the world think that inflicting death and resorting to cold-blood murder of unarmed and peaceful protesters demanding a better life is the answer. Those rulers have been in power for decades and have done nothing absolutely nothing to better the conditions of their countrie…

Congratulaions to the Egyptian revolutionaries

- February 11, 2011 - 5 comments

One dictator has fallen. Mubarak has resigned and left the country. The Egyptian revolution of January 2011 has succeeded in getting rid of Mubarak and now the building of a democratic and free Egypt begins with many many challenges lying ahead. However, what the last three weeks have shown is that the people of Egypt are determined and this determination will lead to victory. Congratulations to the people of Egypt and I hope that the trend will continue until all reamaining 20 dictators and…

Awakening

- January 28, 2011 - 9 comments

It appears that at long last the Arab peoples have broken the spell of fear and started the long awaited awakening. A new dawn is starting to break ushering a new era for the Arab world and the Middle East. However, I believe that we should be quite careful because the imperial and colonial powers are already trying to co-opt the emerging freedom movement. Hilary Clinton, decries the violence and Obama calls for respect of human rights. The question is where were they when their puppet dicta…

إرادة الحياة

- January 15, 2011 - 3 comments

إرادة الحياة الشاعر التونسي ابو القاسم الشابي إذا الشّعْبُ يَوْمَاً أرَادَ الْحَيَـاةَ فَلا بُدَّ أنْ يَسْتَجِيبَ القَـدَر وَلا بُـدَّ لِلَّيـْلِ أنْ يَنْجَلِــي وَلا بُدَّ للقَيْدِ أَنْ يَـنْكَسِـر وَمَنْ لَمْ يُعَانِقْهُ شَوْقُ الْحَيَـاةِ تَبَخَّـرَ في جَوِّهَـا وَانْدَثَـر فَوَيْلٌ لِمَنْ لَمْ تَشُقْـهُ الْحَيَاةُ…

If you're "ugly" you'll be fired. This is what American Apparel CEO wants to do.

- January 6, 2011 - 3 comments

America Apparel (AA) CEO wants to fire employees who he deems to be "ugly" or at least not meet his standard of what an AA employee should look like. At the same time he is all too happy to take the money from anyone regardless of how they look. Human beings to capitalist pigs like Dov Charney (CEO of AA) are nothing more than dollar bills: that's their value.

SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS AGAINST APARTHEID A DECLARATION

- November 9, 2010

SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS AGAINST APARTHEID A DECLARATION As South African Artists and Cultural Workers who have lived under, survived, and in many cases resisted apartheid, we acknowledge the value of international solidarity in our own struggle. It is in this context that we respond to the call by Palestinians, and their Israeli allies, for such solidarity. As artists of conscience we say no to apartheid - anywhere. We respond to the call for international solidarity and u…

One Democratic State

- October 30, 2010 - 4 comments

http://onedemocraticstate.org

Forced to take the apartheid oath

- October 19, 2010 - 1 comment

Israel passed a law requiring non-jewish would be citizens of Israel to take a "loyalty oath" by which they pledge an oath of loyalty to Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state". This is an oath not to a state and its laws but to an ideology. A state can be either an enthnocracy (or as in this case an ethno-theocracy) or a democracy but not both. This law is one more step that the Israeli state is taking on the road to Apartheid.

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