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Liquid Lust in India's Parliament

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Feb 8, 2012, 9:32 pm
INDIA – News channels have broadcast footage of three Indian politicians from a morally conservative party watching pornography during a session of state parliament. This revelation would have been noteworthy in itself, but what captured our attention was the fact that one of the men is the minist...
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Dear Every Woman I Know, Including Me…

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Feb 7, 2012, 1:23 pm
Reblogged from MINDFUL-MOD: There’s never a better time to start loving yourself than right now. Author Amy Bloom tells women everywhere how. By Amy Bloom A few years ago, I was at a lunch for the launch of a TV show called How to Look Good Naked. (Do I need to say that the host
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The Cow of 'Ism'

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Feb 6, 2012, 12:24 pm
SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. The state takes one and gives it to your neighbor. The neighbor loses the cow and wants another one. COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk for your work, instead of a paycheck. FASCISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and
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Gaddafi's Daughter Appeals to ICC

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Feb 4, 2012, 11:06 pm
AMSTERDAM – Muammar Gaddafi‘s daughter, Aisha Gaddafi‘s petition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on behalf of her brother was rejected on Thursday, 23 January. The son of the former President is awaiting trial in Libya on rape and murder charges. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, has also been ...
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The Weight of First | Pres. Johnson Sirleaf

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Feb 3, 2012, 5:13 pm
MONROVIA – Liberia‘s re-elected President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who is the first and only female President in Africa, has named the first ministers of her new cabinet on Thursday.  She appointed new finance and foreign affairs ministers but retained her defense minister. President Johnson Sirle...
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Purdah and Cornelia Sorabji: First Female Barrister in India

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Feb 1, 2012, 12:07 am
Reblogged from tashalaw: Another very impressive female legal pioneer is Cornelia Sorabji, who took her law exams in India as early as 1899. She became involved in legal advisory work on behalf of the purdahnashins (see below), these were women who, under Hindu law, were forbidden to communicate...
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Honor killings are murder not an Islamic teaching

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jan 31, 2012, 10:21 pm
Reblogged from Moral Outrage: Leading Muslim thinkers wholeheartedly insist that “honor murders” have no place and no support in Islam. “There is nothing in the Quran that justifies honor killings. There is nothing that says you should kill for the honor of the family,” said Taj Hargey, dire...
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African Union opens Chinese funded HQ in Ethiopia

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jan 31, 2012, 9:48 pm
Reblogged from Follow The Money: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16770932 The African Union has inaugurated its newly built headquarters in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The entire $200m (£127m) project was funded by China as a gift to the AU, as Beijing continues to strengthen its inf...
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First War, Now Elephantiasis

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jan 30, 2012, 11:55 pm
When I was a child I first encountered a person afflicted with Elephantiasis when we moved to Nigeria.  I wrote about this encounter in my post The Road to Naijiriya which details my arrival in Lagos as we embarked on our new life in Ile Ife. Now, this disease is once again in the media
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Aboriginal Anger on Australia Day

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jan 26, 2012, 11:25 pm
26 January 2012 – Today is Australia Day which commemorates the establishment of the first settlement at Port Jackson, now part of Sydney, in 1788. Originally, instituted for the exclusive enjoyment of the white settlers, the country has more recently tried to promote the holiday as an opportunity...
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Nollywood | Bollywood

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jan 25, 2012, 2:14 pm
Lagos, Nigeria is one of the most populace cities in Africa. It is also the seat of the Nigerian film industry which began in 1992 and is known as Nollywood. It is the third largest film industry in the world after India‘s Bollywood and Hollywood in the U.S. Nollywood produces 2,500 films a year m...
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Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Atementary Guide - Jan 24, 2012, 8:49 pm

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Population Me

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jan 21, 2012, 10:40 pm
I first heard this song as I was driving home the day I lost my job. My position was abolished due to a ‘reduction in work force‘. I was comfortably numb as I packed the detritus of an eight year tenure into the boxes maintenance provided. I hastily bid adieu to the people with whom
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Definite Purpose by Napoleon Hill

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Atementary Guide - Jan 21, 2012, 1:43 pm

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Fermat's Room Trailer

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Atementary Guide - Jan 21, 2012, 1:34 pm

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Etta James - At Last

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Atementary Guide - Jan 21, 2012, 12:08 pm

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Yu Jie, Chinese Dissident | U.S. Asylum?

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jan 16, 2012, 10:43 pm
Yu Jie, age 38,  is a writer and Chinese dissident who was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Yu has been a strong proponent of freedom of speech and an active participant in China’s human rights movement. In 2006 as vice-president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center he and two other dissidents m...
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Inspiration for Compassionate Living

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jan 15, 2012, 3:15 pm
"There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man." Alan Paton. In an effort to bring balance to our reporting for every post that we write about bad behavior, we will post another story about the good tha...
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African Voices Challenge the 'Single Story'

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jan 15, 2012, 1:20 pm
The Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks about the traditions of a single story framed by prejudice, stereotypes, and misinformation. The author of “Half of a Yellow Sun” (2006), she has several other notable books, short stories, plays and poem anthologies under her belt, but this pr...
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People traffickers stalk Eritreans in Sudan desert

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jan 14, 2012, 5:11 pm
Reblogged from ethiopiantimes: SHAGARAB REFUGEE CAMP, SUDAN — Moving at night through the cold, flat desert, armed people smugglers are exploiting, abducting and sometimes killing Eritreans fleeing their authoritarian homeland, the UN and refugees say. “People catch us, sell us like a goat,” o...
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The Story of the Butterfly

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jan 14, 2012, 12:32 am
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole. Then it stopped, as if it couldn’t go further. So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair
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Human Destiny? Chomsky's Challenge

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Oct 31, 2011, 1:52 am
There are many voices within the global and American landscape that continually challenge us to peek behind the veil, to question authority, and practice free thought. In past decades,  authors, philosophers and even filmmakers provided the impetus for us to dig deeper beneath the surface.  Movies...
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Malaria Vaccine For Africa

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Oct 22, 2011, 10:08 pm
I narrowly survived an infection of cerebral malaria when I was 10 years old.  We lived just outside of Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, and because my father did not believe in Western medicine, he forbade my mother from seeking treatment for me when I fell ill.  If treated at the immediat...
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PBS | Women, War and Peace

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Oct 11, 2011, 9:23 pm
Women, War & Peace is a bold new five-part PBS series challenging the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain. Spotlighting the stories of women in conflict zones from Bosnia to Afghanistan and Colombia to Liberia, it places women at the center of an urgent dialogue about conflict ...
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Rosh Hashana 5772 | L'Shana Tova

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Oct 1, 2011, 2:24 am
This year Rosh Hashana commenced on the evening of 28 September 2011 which is actually the first day of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar in the year 5772. Rosh Hashana (Hebrew: ראש השנה‎, literally means “head of the year,” and is commonly referred to as the “Jewish N...
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Botswana's 45 Years of Freedom

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Sep 29, 2011, 7:42 pm
Friday, 30 September 2011, the Southern African nation Botswana will celebrate its National Independence Day.  This date marks the country’s 45th anniversary of the country’s independence from Great Britain. Since gaining its independence in 1966, Botswana has been a stable democracy, governed ...
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Happy Ethiopian New Year | Melkam Addis Amet

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Sep 10, 2011, 1:33 pm
This is an inspirational time of the year because of the proximity of the major holidays of the Abrahamic religions. We have just concluded Ramadan and now we are celebrating the Ethiopian New Year.
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Fistula: The Scourge of Child Brides

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Sep 6, 2011, 10:40 pm
In many countries around the world, young girls are being forced into marriage by their families or society. These marriages are less about religious practices than the economic needs of the families into which these girls are born. Across the continent of Africa, Middle East and Europe, marrying of...
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The Freudian Origins of Surrealism

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Aug 15, 2011, 11:53 pm
The surrealist movement is based on psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud‘s theories on free association, dream analysis, and the unconscious.  By tapping into the unconscious and portraying it unfettered through painting and photography, the viewer is afforded the opportunity to live vicariously in the...
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Fernando Botero | Amedeo Modigliani

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Aug 7, 2011, 12:31 am
The paintings below feature Odalisques. An Odalisque (Turkish: Odalık) was a female slave in an Ottoman seraglio. She was an assistant or apprentice to the concubines and wives, and she might rise in status to become one of them. Most odalisques were part of the Imperial Harem, that is, the househo...
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Child Pornography Nightmare | Dreamboard

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Aug 5, 2011, 9:55 am
4 August 2011 – U.S. federal government officials announced the arrests of 52 people involved in an international online child pornography ring that  exploited children through a bulletin board with the moniker “Dreamboard.” The arrests were the culmination of an investigation launched in lat...
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Eid Mubarak 2011 | Happy Ramadan

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Aug 3, 2011, 1:45 am
To all of our Muslim readers we would like to wish you a very Happy Ramadan.  Having just broken the fast with our dear friends from Tunisia, we are privileged to have had the opportunity to demonstrate our commitment to diversity and the values of religious tolerance that we espouse. “Toleration...
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Mehndi Henna | Beautiful Brides

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jul 24, 2011, 3:03 am
Portrait of beautiful henna hands.
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Russian Roulette of Rape

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jul 19, 2011, 3:17 pm
As a victim of rape I am intimately acquainted with the difficulties women face when confronted by the decision to report the violation. I was brutally date raped by boy who I knew and trusted. What has remained with me thirty years hence was the utter indifference exhibited by other attendees of th...
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Woman Severs Husband's Penis | Catherine Kieu Becker

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jul 13, 2011, 9:03 pm
13 July 2011 — Last night Catherine Kieu Becker, who lives in Grove Garden, California, called 911 Emergency Services after she cut off her husband‘s penis and mangled it in a garbage disposal.  This is not the first time that an American wife has cut off her husband’s penis. In 1984, Lorena ...
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Volga Ferry Boat Accident Claims Lives of Children

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jul 12, 2011, 11:38 pm
12 July 2011 – 83 people are presumed drowned in Russia’s Volga river after a ferry-boat accident this past Sunday. To date the divers have retrieved the bodies of 16 children, 51 women and 16 men but many bodies remain trapped in the wreckage according to divers. 79 passengers were rescued by a...
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South Sudan, Newest Country, Newest Colony?

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jul 10, 2011, 8:50 pm
10 July 2011 – Last year we reported on Land Grabs in Ethiopia and earlier this year we featured a post on Neo-Colonialism in Africa. Yesterday, South Sudan became an independent country poised to become the 193rd member of the United Nations.  Simultaneous to its creation representatives from mu...
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Death Toll Rises in Congo Plane Crash

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jul 8, 2011, 9:02 pm
KINSHASA – 8 July 2010 – In a country plagued by civil war, genocide and marauding hoards who routinely terrorize the population and rape girls and women; it seems as if it could not bear another tragedy.  Yet, this was the case when a plane carrying 112 people crashed today at the airport of K...
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South Sudan Secedes | United Nations to Grant Membership

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jul 6, 2011, 1:16 pm
NEW YORK – Yesterday, 5 July 2011, United Nations officials announced that South Sudan could become a member state after seceding.  South Sudan’s secession was a prerequisite set forth by the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon for it to be considered for membership. On 9 July 2011 the Council w...
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New Book Project | The Bahari Paradox

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jul 3, 2011, 5:46 pm
I appreciate the opportunity to submit for your review a brief synopsis of my current project, THE BAHARI PARADOX. Agents interested in projects similar to Malika Oufkir’s Stolen Lives will see the potential in marketing this project, as it grapples with similar thematic content: perseverance, sur...
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Aung San Suu Kyi Warned to Keep Mouth Shut

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jun 29, 2011, 11:58 pm
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience." ~ Thomas Merton 29 June 2011 - Aung San Suu Kyi is about to go on tour an she has been warn...
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Christine Lagarde, New IMF Director

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jun 28, 2011, 7:47 pm
28 June 2011 - French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde was named Tuesday as the new managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Her five-year appointment begins on July 5th, as such she is the first woman to lead the multilateral lender to nations. Lagarde succeeds count...
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The Living Death of 'GET'

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jun 28, 2011, 12:05 am
When a woman attempts to leave an unhappy marriage, depending upon where she resides it could result in her death, loss of her parental rights, disfigurement, impoverishment, ostracization or other dire consequences. When my father began to physically abuse my mother she was caught in an untenable ...
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The Female of the Species

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jun 26, 2011, 2:45 am
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES Written by Rudyard Kipling, 1911 When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail. For the female of the spec...
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Murder of the Equal Sex

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jun 20, 2011, 12:51 am
In the Middle East and North Africa women rights are coming to the forefront as they begin their modern-day suffragette movement amidst the recent uprisings – now known as the “Arab Spring”. Suffragette “derived from the word “suffrage“, means the … Continue reading →
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The Fallacy of Western Love | Meriam Al Khalifa

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - Jun 15, 2011, 2:12 am
This post is about Meriam Al Khalifa who is a young Saudi Arabian woman who eloped with an American serviceman and left her home in Bahrain during the night without the consent or knowledge of her family. The picture to … Continue reading →
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Ratko Mladić | Serbian Butcher Arrested

Ayanna Nahmias posted an article on The Nahmias Cipher Report - May 26, 2011, 5:09 pm
On May 26, 2011 Serbian security forces arrested Ratko Mladić in Lazarevo, Serbia. He had eluded apprehension for 16 years despite a large monetary award for his capture. Mladić's most unconscionable act was the notorious Srebrenica massacre in which 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys w...
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The Nahmias Cipher Report is a forum to explore gender relations, woman’s rights, child advocacy, sexuality and religion from the perspective of an insider who lived within each of these contextual settings.

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