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Mina Al-Droubi is a researcher and contributor to <em>The Majalla</em>. Mina, an Iraqi–British journalist, graduated in International Politics from City University and received her master’s degree in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

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    Past meets Present in Egypt

    [caption id="attachment_55248216" align="alignnone" width="620"] Jamal Suliman as Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egyptian documentary drama series Sadik Al-Omr. (Courtesy of Osman Abou Laban)[/caption] They say that history repeats itself. Egypt’s second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, was hailed as a hero a...

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    Prince William makes a rare statement on his mother’s death

    [caption id="attachment_55252644" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Prince William[/caption] The Duke of Cambridge made a rare public admission over his mother Princess Diana's death as he comforted Aoife a nine year old girl, who lost her father to cancer. During a visit to an east London bereavemen...

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    The Slender Man Case: Two Young Girls Accused of Murdering their School Friend

    [caption id="attachment_55252331" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Morgan Geyser (left in 2014) and Anissa Weier (right in 2014) are being tried as adults for attempted first-degree intentional homicide.[/caption] by Mina Al-Droubi The Slender Man stabbing occurred on Saturday, May 31, 2014, in Wau...

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    Jane Sheehan: Understanding emotions and personality through feet

    [caption id="attachment_55251257" align="aligncenter" width="940"] Jane Sheehan[/caption] by Mina Droubi Jane Sheehan is the UK’s leading foot reader and has been practicing since 1999. She analyses the structure and texture of the feet to interpret emotions and personality. Jane began foot readi...

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    A Taste of Iraq in London

    [caption id="attachment_55250757" align="aligncenter" width="955"] Dr Lamees Ibrahaim at her home in Barnes on January 30, 2010. (Ben Stansall/ Lamees Ibrahim website)[/caption] by Mina Al-Droubi The famous cookbook shop, Books for Cooks, is located just off London’s Portobello Road. Last Thursday, ...

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    Bridging the Gender Gap at the United Nations

    [caption id="attachment_55250698" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Natalia Gherman[/caption] For the first time in the history of the united nations, the international community has been presented with nine official candidates vying for the position of the next U.N. secretary-general. They have  sh...

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    Pastor’s pregnant wife is found dead in her living room

    [caption id="attachment_55250689" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Amanda Blackburn, with her husband, Davey, and son, was pregnant with the couple’s second child when she was raped and killed. (Facebook)[/caption] Authorities charged two young men with murder on Monday in the fatal shooting of a pa...

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    Standing Up for Iraq’s Turkmen

    [caption id="attachment_55249794" align="alignnone" width="616"] Iraqi Turkmen Front leader Arshad Al-Salihi shows his ink-stained finger after casting his ballot in the Iraqi parliamentary elections on April 30, 2014 in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Ali Mukerrem/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)[/caption] by Mina Al-D...

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    Marrying Off Girls

    [caption id="attachment_55249446" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iraqi schoolgirls return home in Baghdad on February 28, 2012. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] A proposed law in Iraq would restrict women’s rights by permitting girls as young as nine to wed. If passed, the Ja'afari Perso...

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    Heritage in the Right Hands

    [caption id="attachment_55249169" align="alignnone" width="594"] Detail of a students' school records as conservation of a trove of Iraqi Jewish artifacts discovered in a basement during the war is almost completed on July, 23, 2013 in College Park, MD. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Im...

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