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People walk past a grafitti tag reading "I am Charlie" as they take part in a solidarity march (Marche Republicaine) in the streets of Paris January 11, 2015. French citizens will be joined by dozens of foreign leaders, among them Arab and Muslim representatives, in a march on Sunday in an unprecedented tribute to this week's victims following the shootings by gunmen at the offices of the satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the killing of a police woman in Montrouge, and the hostage taking at a kosher

رينا باسيست تروي لنا لماذا تكتب

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A protester stands against Turkish soldiers during clashes near Silivri, where a hearing on people charged with attempting to overthrow Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist-rooted government is due to take place August 5, 2013. A Turkish court on Monday sentenced a former military commander to life in prison and dozens of others including opposition members of parliament to long terms for plotting against the government, in a case that has exposed deep divisions in the country. Retired military chief of

سيبل أوتكو بيلا تروي لنا لماذا تكتب

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An injured member of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporter of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi is carried by members of the riot police and the army after they cleared Rabaa Adawiya square area, where the Pro-Mursi supporters are camping, in Cairo August 14, 2013. Egyptian security forces killed at least 30 people on Wednesday when they cleared a camp of Cairo protesters who were demanding the reinstatement of Mursi, his Muslim Brother

أنس حامد تطلعنا على ما يدفعها للكتابة

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The residents of Sarajevo take cover from sniper fire behind a United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) armoured vehicle in this 1993 file photo. Genocide, siege and massacre are for many people in Bosnia more than just words on Radovan Karadzic's indictment. They represent years of suffering, dead friends and nightmares that will always haunt them. To match feature WARCRIMES-KARADZIC/LEGACY REUTERS/Danilo Krstanovic/Files (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA) - RTR20HI6

ريادا أسيموفيك أكيول عن سبب اختيارها مهنة الصحافة

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A Turkish riot policeman uses tear gas as people protest against the destruction of trees in a park brought about by a pedestrian project, in Taksim Square in central Istanbul in this May 28, 2013 file photo.

Osman Orsal: I was covering protests in Istanbul which began as a demonstration against government plans to demolish a small park in central Taksim square but evolved into one the biggest anti-government protests in over a decade.

I was standing between the protesters and the police as the police b

أمبرين زمان تطلعنا على ما يدفعها للكتابة

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Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani, Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the UN, speaking on behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in Yemen.

سفيرة قطر لدى الأمم المتّحدة تسعى إلى كسر الحواجز

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A Palestinian woman, hoping to cross into Egypt, holds her son as they wait with others at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip August 12, 2014. Under Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Cairo has secured closures on the Gaza border, increasing economic pressure on Hamas from a long-running Israeli blockade. Talks to end a month-long war between Israel and Islamist militants in Gaza have made no progress so far, an Israeli official said on Tuesday, as a 72-hour ceasefire in the

لماذا اخترت مهنة الصحافة؟

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Palestinian women walk in an alley in Shatila refugee camp near Beirut May 23, 2007. The Lebanese army is trying to crush Fatah al-Islam, a militant group led by a Palestinian but with little or no support among Lebanon's Palestinian refugee population of 400,000. Dozens of people have died in three days of fighting. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON) - RTR1Q072

فلورانس ماسينا تطلعنا على ما يدفعها للكتابة

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A woman looks on as she sits amongst displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, who are sleeping on the ground at Bajed Kadal refugee camp, southwest of Dohuk province August 23, 2014. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT) - RTR43FCQ

مايا جبيلي تطلعنا على ما يدفعها للكتابة

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Palestinian boy Mohammed Wahdan, whom medics said was wounded in Israeli shelling, is held by his aunt as he receives psychological care at Shifa hospital in Gaza City August 14, 2014. In a ward at Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital, child therapist Rabeea Hamouda is trying to elicit a response from two small brothers, Omar and Mohammed, aged three and 18 months, hoping for some words or perhaps a smile. For seven straight minutes the children, peppered with burns and shrapnel wounds sustained in Israeli shelli

رشا أبو جلال عن سبب اختيارها مهنة الصحافة

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Lebanese news photographers work during a protest against the forced closure of media institutions on Friday by Hezbollah gunmen and its allies in Beirut May 10, 2008. The Shi'ite movement Hezbollah tightened its control of the Lebanese capital on Saturday in a show of force after it routed gunmen loyal to the western-backed government. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (LEBANON) - RTX5JNR

منى العلمي تطلعنا على ما يدفعها للكتابة

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Gaber Gad Nassar (front row, C), president of Cairo University, poses with graduating Engineering students after an interview with Reuters in Cairo October 15, 2014. The government has tightened security at the university as it seeks to avert another year of unrest on university campuses, among the last bastions of protest and dissent in Egypt. Nassar denied the security measures were intended to restrict academic freedoms. Picture taken October 15. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: EDUCATION

التعليم العالي في الشرق الأوسط

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