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Researcher links AIDS to ?transactional sex?
by Meghan Potkins, Gateway Newspaper, March 11th 2005. Based on a lecture by Dr. Richard Lee, Distinguished Guest Speaker at the Richard Frucht memorial speakers' series. For more details on this art
The Struggle for Social Justice in Zimbabwe
The deepening crisis in Zimbabwe has slipped out of international attention, as often happens with African issues
Early African-American feminist journalism explored
While gender and racial prejudices dominated the political landscape of the 19th century, African-American women found a means of revolting
Headscarf dilemma is tangled in politics
Muslim women wear headscarves called hejab; those who wear them insist that their religion requires it; those who don't say there is no such requirement
Is the boy with the belt the first of many to come?
Israeli security says it required the assassination of a Palestinian paraplegic who, Israel says, was a master terrorist, but, say his followers in Hamas, he was the spiritual guide
What Bush should know about Islam
In the nineteenth century, as French colonial interests were expanding into the interior of West Africa just south of the Sahara, a powerful desert clan claimed religious and economic control over much of the desert
Abu-Laban honoured with Citation for Citizenship
For the past five years, University of Alberta sociologist Dr. Baha Abu-Laban has been the director of a centre that many thought would never exist
The view from the Middle East
The Consortium for Middle Eastern And African Studies and other on-campus organizations have given some University of Alberta students and Edmonton community members the chance to talk.
Panel to tackle U.S. hatred in the Middle East
In 1951, the nationalist Iranian government called on their allies, the United States, to help market and maintain an oil company that the Iranians were developing in Iran with the British