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The Nahmias Cipher Report
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Nahmias Cipher Report is a forum for political and social commentary on human rights in emerging economies. The report highlights a diverse range of topics including art, music, health, science and international politics. Posts by contributing authors provide alternative insights into the roles of women in global societies.
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Film Review: This Is Not a Film highlights Iranian filmmakers talents while under house arrest

Reblogged from Independent Ethos: It’s a marvel what one learns about filmmaking while watching the anti-film This is Not a Film. In 2010, acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi was confined to his ...

3 days ago

The Prophet’s Children | Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. ...

4 days ago

Bahraini Torture Deaths & Oil For Silence

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:49 PM EDT, 23 May 2012 MANAMA, Bahrain — The call for democracy that began during Bahrain’s Arab Spring has fomented into a full-scale revoluti...

6 days ago

“Porndemic”- the concern

Reblogged from thelisteningvoice: This write up is a follow up to my previous article on United by nudity, divided by attitude. It also comes as an inner voice that I have been listening to and what ...

22 may 12

Rules for Successful Living

Anonymous Source Contributor Last Modified: 01:09 AM EDT, 21 May 2012 Originally reblogged this from another site, but subsequently found other versions of this inspirational list of life lessons. No...

21 may 12 1 person likes this

Rules For Being Human

Reblogged from Delicious Goodies Galore: 1. You Will Receive A Body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around. 2. You Will Learn Lessons. You are enroll...

21 may 12

Will Ratko Mladić Escape Justice?

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 14:30 PM EDT, 18 May 2012 THE HAGUE – It is unfortunate for the survivors of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica siege that resulted in the genocide of 8,000...

18 may 12

Finding Your Roots | Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the new PBS series Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Harvard scholar turns to the latest tools of genealogy an...

18 may 12

Dutch-Moroccan ‘Lover Boy’ Pimps

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 15:46 PM EDT, 17 May 2012 Al Jazeera reported on the release of a film about the explosive increase in the Netherlands of forced prostitution of girls a...

17 may 12

Are all Men Pedophiles (Trailer)

Reblogged from This is MY Soapbox: Are all men pedophiles? Of course not! But this is the recent subject of a documentary. I’ll let you watch the trailer. The trailer isn’t bringing up an...

16 may 12

So You Love Me? Use The FDA HIV Test Kit

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 00:57 AM EDT, 16 May 2012 WASHINGTON, DC – David Morgan of Reuters UK first broke the news that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is ...

16 may 12

Esperanza Spalding Feature in Newsweek

Reblogged from the jazzmonger: Esperanza Spalding! I have made my admiration for this beautiful, talented lady a recurrent theme here on thejazzmonger blog. Now, I am pleased to report that she is th...

12 may 12

Bagmati River Slum Razed

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 18:19 PM EDT, 10 May 2012 KATHMANDU, Nepal – Wednesday, 8 May 2012, was a day of great disruption and equal measure of sorrow for the residents of the s...

11 may 12

An American Tragedy, part two

Reblogged from myownstormypetrelwords: I’ve written about a few of these subjects before: the obscene incarceration rate in America http://www.myownstormypetrelwo rds.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/g e...

09 may 12

Will Liberia Let Them Eat Dust?

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 14:16 PM EDT, 8 May 2012 MONROVIA, Liberia – Across Africa water shortages and drought are an increasingly prevalent phenomenon. Some instances are a co...

08 may 12

Sharia Law – Nigerian Thief Burned Alive

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 15:20 PM EDT, 4 May 2012 POTISKUM, Nigeria – This town in Yobe state is at the epicenter of the radical Islamic group, Boko Haram‘s reign of terro...

04 may 12

Waris Dirie | FGM vs Circumcision

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 16:00 PM EDT, 3 May 2012 Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is currently one of the most egregious women’s rights abuses occurring globally. It is a ...

03 may 12

BP Oil Spill Creates Mutant Fish

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 13:55 PM EDT, 1 May 2012 LOUISIANA, United States – On the second anniversary of the massive British Petroleum (BP) Gulf of Mexico oil spill, very...

01 may 12

Africa’s Christians Under Attack

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 22:05 PM EDT, 30 April 2012 NAIROBI, Kenya – In recent months, across Africa, Christian sects have been under attack from extremist. On Sunday, 29...

01 may 12

Sade, Timeless

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 13:30 PM EDT, 27 April 2012 First Published: 15:03 PM EDT, 15 January 2010 LONDON, England – Helen Folasade Adu “Sade”, 53, who was born in Ibadan...

27 apr 12

Warlord Charles Taylor Convicted

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:55 PM EDT, 26 April 2012 THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Today, Charles Taylor, 64, former Liberian President and accused warlord was convicted by The...

27 apr 12

Ugandans Leverage Viral Activism

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:54 PM EDT, 23 April 2012 KAMPALA, Uganda – The Joseph Kony video that revealed gross human rights abuses in Uganda, particularly with regard to...

24 apr 12

Exclusive ICBM Club Gains Member

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:23 PM EDT, 19 April 2012 NEW DEHLI, India – Following close on the heels of North Korea’s failed rocket launch earlier this week, the Indian governme...

20 apr 12

Anders Breivik, Norway’s Timothy McVeigh?

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 22:57 PM EDT, 18 April 2012 OSLO, Norway – Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing Norwegian fanatic has proudly admitted to killing 77 people on 2...

19 apr 12

Jim Yong Kim, New World Bank President

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 00:16 AM EDT, 17 April 2012 WASHINGTON, DC – The World Bank announced today that they selected President Barack Obama’s nominee Jim Yong Kim to serve as...

17 apr 12

Drone strikes may come up in talks with Pakistan: US officials

Reblogged from DAWN.COM: The joint Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) in Islamabad called for an immediate halt to drone strikes in FATA. - Photo by AP WASHINGTON: The United States ...

14 apr 12

Humiliating North Korean Rocket Crash

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 22:19 PM EDT, 13 April 2012 PYONGYANG, North Korea – Yesterday, amid the fanfare of ceremonies marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of North...

14 apr 12

Lagos carnival 2012. (Photos 20 )

Reblogged from Limeisbetter: Here’s the exotic. Judging by the photos it has a lot to work that would reach the level of Brazil. However, I will put them very highly with 10 scores 6. Carnival ...

10 apr 12

Report Rape & media will plaster your mug on national television for all to see

Reblogged from media laundry- @Dhobitalao: Police, Govt & Media Gang Rape !!! SUNAYANA SINGH As if it’s not disturbing enough to read about a girl being gang raped by four men. As if it isn’t dis...

10 apr 12

The Sexual Hyprocrisy of the Taliban

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 15:11 PM EDT, 6 April 2012 When the book “The Kite Runner” was made into a movie many people, including me, were shocked at the scene where a Tali...

06 apr 12

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