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Yes, We Speak Cupcake

SUGAR AND SPICE Fadi Jaber says that women account for most of his business at Sugar Daddys, which has locations in Dubai, Beirut, and Amman. AS a young student at the multinational Aramco school in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Fadi Jaber, a son of ...

From ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN, The New York Times,  22 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Unilever PLC,  Queen Rania,  Central Intelligence Agency

FEATURE: Chakarova's 'Price of Sex' Reveals Sex Marketplace

(WOMENSENEWS)--Jenea saw 50 customers a day the year she worked in Turkey. She wasn't a bank teller or a hairdresser. Jenea was one of the estimated 1.39 million people trafficked each year into the sex trade industry, according to the Geneva-based ...

From ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN, Womens Enews,  6 Aug 2009
Related Topics: PBS

FEATURE: Onal Found Remorse Among Turkish 'Honor' Killers

ISTANBUL, Turkey (WOMENSENEWS)--In interviewing imprisoned men who have killed daughters, sisters and mothers to clear their family reputations in "honor killings," Ayse Onal often found an unexpected vulnerability, while in other men she saw a ...

From ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN, Womens Enews,  18 May 2009
Related Topics: European Union,  Ministry of Justice

COVER STORY: Ayse Onal Shines Light on Turkish 'Honor' Killings

ISTANBUL, Turkey (WOMENSENEWS)--For years, coverage of so-called honor killings in Turkey took the perpetrator's side, describing them as heroes and their victims--typically young women accused of harming their family's social standing by committing ...

From ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN, Womens Enews,  17 May 2009
Related Topics: Ministry of Justice

COVER STORY: Liberia Stresses Need for Female Peacemakers

MONROVIA, Liberia (WOMENSENEWS)--For three days and nights 28-year-old Comfort Wilson rode in the back of a pickup truck from her rural village in Liberia to the capital, Monrovia. She came with 30 women from her village sleeping in the truck bed, ...

From ANNA S. SUSSMAN, Womens Enews,  15 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf,  United Nations,  Mary Robinson,  In Style,  Tarja Halonen

Arab-Israeli duo set to sing for peace at Eurovision contest

BEIRUT: The same week as American Secretary of State Hilary Clinton declared a two-state solution "inescapable" on a visit to Israel, and just weeks after its voters elected the most right-wing government in recent memory, Israel submitted its ...

From ANNA SUSSMAN, Lebanon Daily Star,  3 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Myspace,  Daniel Barenboim,  Edward Said

'Israeli troops' seen raising flag again at Lebanon's Beaufort Castle

BEIRUT: Lebanon's Beaufort Castle, which featured in the less-than-Oscar-worthy "Beaufort" last year, is having another go in front of the camera. The Crusader-era castle, used as a base for Israeli soldiers in South Lebanon until the 2000 withdrawal, ...

From ANNA SUSSMAN, Lebanon Daily Star,  27 Feb 2009

Cupcake craze: It's not just for New Yorkers anymore

Editor's note: The following is the latest in a series of articles The Daily Star is publishing to acquaint readers with prominent, unusual, and captivating people and places in Lebanon. BEIRUT: It doesn't take a degree in marketing to peddle cupcakes. ...

From ANNA SUSSMAN, Lebanon Daily Star,  27 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Unilever PLC

Art and life in Roumieh prison

When a group of prisoners, some of them in jail for life, debate the fictive sentencing of a young man to execution, is it art imitating life, or life imitating art? This and other challenging questions arose during the recent staging of "Twelve Angry ...

From ANNA SUSSMAN, Lebanon Daily Star,  20 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Henry Fonda,  Sidney Lumet

Missing Mai Goussoub: Posthumous show reminds us why

BEIRUT: Mai Ghoussoub, described in Malu Halasa's Guardian obituary of her as a "publisher, author and artist," also seemed to be a medium. In her 2008 book of selected writings, she channeled the spirits of Janis Joplin, Um Kulthum, Josephine Baker ...

From ANNA SUSSMAN, Lebanon Daily Star,  18 Feb 2009
Related Topics: UNESCO,  Edith Piaf,  Janis Joplin,  Josephine Baker,  Henry Moore

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