Eman Mohammed
Gaza
For the past few decades, the world locally and internationally has victimized women. Although they didn’t ask for or choose that victim role, they were blamed for it anyway and cut off from most their rights.
This oppression continued and went farther by stopping women from getting education, work, ambitions, opinions, and dreams. The goal was to erase the women’s personalities and replace them with the form that others chose instead.
However, the magic was reversed on the magician when women started to talk back and rebel against these unfair, man-made …

One of the first news stories to catch my eye this week summarized a report from Susan Solomon, a Senior Scientist representing the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its international partners, warning that the grim consequences of global warming will be with us for 1,000 years even if we reverse course now. One reaction to news like this might be: “We’re doomed, so what’s the use?”
Clearly, the Obama Administration is not taking this position. The federal requirements that were announced the same day, affecting new cars as of …

Commentary by Molly Mayfield Barbee
There we were, 50 or more of us—mostly men on their way to Abuja, Accra, Cairo, Johannesburg, or Nairobi, and me—crowded around the 8-inch television screen over a bar at the Addis Ababa airport. On any other day it would have been a football game (or “soccer,” as our US readers call it) that gathered such a crowd. But yesterday was no ordinary day. It is, in fact, A New Day.
Inauguration Day 2009 found me wrapping up from meetings in the UAE and making the journey …