IRAQI STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE We, the undersigned people of Iraq; political parties, civil society, intellectuals, members of the media, academics and citizens, declare our solidarity with the revolution of the Egyptian people to gain their freedom, democratic rights, justice and the right to a honorable life. We salute and commend the noble […]
With ongoing demonstrations of nonviolent citizens against authoritarian governments in Tunisia, Cairo, Damascus, Khartum, Algiers, Amman, Right to Nonviolence is pleased to relay this important statement of solidarity coming from Baghdad. The statement was issued in Arabic and coordinated by Dr Tamara Chalabi, coordinator of Right to Nonviolence-Iraq. Join the Middle East Nonviolent Revolution. IRAQI […]
Right to Nonviolence Press Release, 30 January 2011- The following appeal from RN Chairman, Professor Chibli Mallat, was addressed this morning to the Egyptian Nile Revolution. In it, Mallat salutes the long history of Egyptian bravery from the stand against Napoleon in 1798 to the 2005 Cairo intifada. It calls on the Egyptian freedom seekers […]
Your appointment with world history This is it. This is, again, in less than two years, your meeting with history. You missed it in Tehran in the summer of 2009, as the US government did in the winter of 1978, in the summer of 1953, and countless times since that sad meeting aboard the USS […]
2011 began with the promise of the Jasmine Revolution. In less than a month, Tunisia’s courageous people ended a ruthless 23-year dictatorship. The nonviolent character of the movement, met with the immense violence of the State, now needs a transition to democracy that is still elusive across the Middle East. Right to Nonviolence will accompany […]
