Bang and bling for Kurdish pop diva's anti-IS anthem
She visits peshmerga forces fighting the Islamic State group, which overran a third of Iraq last year, and says she filmed her latest music video in Al-Khazr, not far from the jihadists' lines. "I want to give something to the peshmerga because I consider myself one of them," the 26-year-old singer told AFP in the Kurdish regional capital Arbil.
Source: Your Middle East
Since last week's elections, there have been few indicators of major political change in Turkey
Turkey’s ruling party for the past twelve years, the Justice and Development Party or AKP,suffered an embarrassing defeat in last Sunday’s election, failing to earn enough delegates to form a single-party government. This result was largely a result of the Peoples’ Democratic party or HDP, a primarily Kurdish party, passing the 10% election threshold and earning 13% of the vote. The HDP’s liberal platform and charismatic leader, as well as its status as the first Kurdish party to be officially represented in the Turkish parliament, has prompted exuberant declarations from liberal Turks about the end of the AKP era.
Source: Muftah
Meet the 'invisible' woman who's running for president
The last few decades in Lebanon have played out like a scene from some terrible post-apocalyptic film; the youth feel marginalized and helpless, women are vulnerable and lack equal institutional rights, and the elderly are poor.
In typical Lebanese fashion, the political stalemate has left us with a vacant presidential seat for over a year now, with the usual suspects lining up for their turn at the top of the Ferris wheel.
Enter Nadine Moussa, an accomplished lawyer and an avid social activist, a proud secular candidate.
Source: Beirut.com
