INEAS Projects

Snapshots of current and ongoing activities.

April 26, 2009

April 26th is International Seeds Day source: www.twinenfp.org

Organizations, activists and people from various professional and linguistic backgrounds will observe April 26 as International Seeds Day (ISD) advocating for patent-free seeds, organic food and farmers' rights. ISD will be an educational day for the public to learn about genetically modified food and its health hazardous effects and the agribusiness of major US and European companies and their monopoly over the agriculture in Africa and Asia with emphasis on India, Iraq and Afghanistan. It will be a day of solidarity with farmers in countries devastated by war (Afghanistan, Iraq & others) and of resistance.
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May 5, 2009

Since the US invasion in 2003, illicit trafficking of Iraqi children has risen dramatically source: BBC

Our Institute is launching a campaign to document eyewitnesses from inside and outside Iraq who observed the kidnapping and/or the selling of Iraqi children or those who are able to locate kidnapped and sold children in their new environment. We are working to create a network of communities within Iraq and neighboring countries (Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran and Kuwait) to monitor, provide alerts, exchange information and report to NGOs, families, the media and authorities to prevent children from being sold and especially from leaving Iraq. We need all the help we can muster to ensure the success of this mission. The trauma of Iraqi children...
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Scheduled Release Date: Winter 2010

In The Other Arabs, minorities in the Arab world tell their stories.

INEAS is presently working on this two-part documentary film series; Episode I on Jewish Arabs, Episode II to highlight the Druze Arabs. It is scheduled for release for winter 2010.

To preview part 1 of The Other Arabs on Youtube, click on "Trailer 1" or "Tralier 2" below. Your generous contributions will help make this film a reality.
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A Call for Information

July 2002: women in southern Nigeria occupied a Chevron oil terminal source: PBS.org

We live in a world of imbalance and injustice whereby men have nearly all the say and women, by force or sometimes by choice, have a little or no say. As a result, women have not been effective in changing the status quo.

Despite the ineffectiveness, three major events had taken place since the 1960s whereby women have challenged and/or changed the status quo by directly protesting against or interfering with men's action and monopoly. It will help increase the desire to, at least shake, if not relatively change the status quo. read more

Reported by: Nada Shabout

Iraq's National Museum re-opened in 2009. Thousands of items remain lost. source: NY Times

The destruction of Iraq's cultural heritage is a subject which is rarely mentioned in American and other western media. The occasional mention in academic circles of the wanton destruction, lack of protection and neglect of Iraq's archaeological sites and museum collections, has always glossed over the destruction of the modern cultural heritage of a country which was a leader in the development of a regional and an Arab response to the changes of modalities of the twentieth century. The world seems to forget that the "cradle of civilization" is the land of a contemporary country with a thriving culture.
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Project’s Effective Date: February 1, 2005

Translators sought to serve in area hospitals © Wafaa' Al-Natheema

The Institute of Near Eastern & African Studies (INEAS) is pleased to announce the launching of the project of Special Privileged Members (SPM) for hospitals/clinics and law firms in the States of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Hospitals, clinics and law firms will benefit from this project by becoming Special Privileged Members of INEAS. The annual dues will guarantee SPMs specified benefits. The TIHOLAF project is, in general, flexible: SPMs are free to make suggestions and participate in implementing some new sub programs or special workshops for improvement.
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