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| Syria Uprising |
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an interview with The Wall Street Journal in January, Syria´s
president, Bashar al Assad, said that his main objective was
to address his people´s "closed-mindedness".
He made it clear that this alone impeded reform, and it might
be another generation before Syria is ready for real change.
Dictators (including Assad´s father, Hafez) have long
presented themselves as suppressors of extremism in the region
generally, and Syria in particular. They said democracy would
usher in fundamentalists inherently opposed to modernity, civil
dialogue, international community legitimacy and civilised human
political and economic relations. Perhaps because of this fear... |
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| THE POWER OF MOCKERY |
| THE juiciest story behind the Middle East
uprisings doesn´t concern Colonel Moamer Qadhafi´s
"voluptuous" Ukrainian nurse or CIA bags of cash.
Rather, it´s the tale of how a nonviolent revolutionary
strategy crafted by Serbian students and an octogenarian American
scholar came to challenge dictators in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain
and many other countries. This "uprising in a bottle"
blueprint was developed by the Serbian youth movement, Otpor,
to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. One of Otpor´s
insights was that the most effective weapon against dictators
isn´t bombs or fiery speeches. It´s mockery. Otpor
activists once put Milosevic´s picture on a barrel that
they rolled down the street, inviting people to hit it with
a bat. Otpor´s strategy mirrors... |
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Think Pink to hold fund-raising dinner on April 28
AILYN AGONIA
DOHA THINK Pink Qatar (TPQ) will host a fund-raising dinner on April 28 to support Qatar National Cancer Society (QNCS) with regard to its breast cancer awareness campaigns.
The event, which is named ‘Murder Mystery Dinner’, will be held at the W Hotel.
It is being organised by Secrets974 Salon and Spa The fun event with a mystery game will feature a special three-menu course accompanied by live jazz entertainment.
According to TPQ Founder Karen al Kharouf, besides fund-raising, the event will also introduce a new form of entertainment to the people.
Talking about the mystery game, Karen said, “The event will be organised in a round table form with eight to ten persons at each table.
A character named Mr Big will be found dead on the dance floor during a dinner.
The audience will be asked to solve the mystery of how Mr Big died.
Each table will be given a set of clues.
Participants at the table will work together to find who was responsible for Mr Big’s death from a list of suspects.
The winner will receive a gift and will get a certificate for being the best detective of the night.” “There will also be a dance floor and an area for a live band consisting of saxophone, drum, piano and a singer,” she added.
Tickets are priced at QR500 for VIP guests and QR400 for general public.
Tickets will be sold at W Hotel, Virgin Records at Villaggio and Landmark Mall, Secrets974 and at City Center.
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