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...An outspoken lawyer, Hanan Baraasi, was shot dead on a Benghazi street in 2020. Baraasi was a Haftar supporter but had alleged that his relatives were implicated in corruption....
...But gradually the women find their voices and craft tales that speak for and about them through metaphor (several of them written for this show by Hanan al-Shaykh, Suhayla El-Bushra and Sara Shaarawi)....
...In the spirit of the project, Khalil has commissioned three new stories from female writers of Arab heritage (Hanan al-Shaykh, Suhayla El-Bushra and Sara Shaarawi) to sit alongside some of the traditional...
...For example, Hanan al-Shaykh writes eloquently on woman’s sexuality and shame, influenced by a strict Shi’a upbringing in Lebanon, while Cairo-based journalist Shereen El Feki’s offers a more light-hearted...
...“The general congress today passed a law that likely violates human rights and that also violates Libya’s provisional constitution,” Hanan Salah, Libya researcher for Human Rights Watch, said in an interview...
...“The version of the law they passed was the most draconian version,” says Hanan Salah, the Libya point-person for Human Rights Watch. “It’s got big flaws. The criteria are broad and sweeping....
...“In Libya it has become fully acceptable to use force as a means to achieve certain objectives,” says Hanan Salah, a researcher for Human Rights Watch in Tripoli. “It has become an everyday thing....
...Although Julie Karagouni’s Aida and Hanan El Guindy’s Amneris blossomed considerably in the course of the evening, Angelo Simos’s Radames opened with a particularly strident “Celeste Aida” and never quite...
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