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Worshippers offer prayers for Easter and former South African president Nelson Mandela a top of a hill overlooking Johannesburg, Saturday, March 30, 2013. Source: AP Photo/Denis Farrell

Mandela in Hospital on Easter

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 1, 2013 | World

Johannesburg, AP—Former South African President Nelson Mandela had a restful day in a hospital Sunday and is improving following treatment for a recurrence of pneumonia, the government said. The office of President Jacob Zuma thanked South Africans who prayed for...

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Nelson Mandela is pictured on a mural with South African apartheid freedom fighter Steve Biko, in the city of Cape Town, South Africa, March 10, 2013. Source: AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam

Mandela in Hospital with Lung Infection

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 28, 2013 | World

Johannesburg, AP—Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first black president, has been admitted to a hospital with a recurring lung infection, South Africa said Thursday. Mandela, 94, has become increasingly frail in recent years...

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Palestinians queue to board a bus as a new line is made available by Israel to take Palestinian labourers from the Israeli army crossing Eyal, near the West Bank town of Qalqilya, into the Israeli city Tel Aviv, on March 4, 2013. (AFP PHOTO)

Israeli Apartheid

by Osman Mirghani | Mar 14, 2013 | Opinion

They yelled: “Dirty Arab. You want a state? Is that what you want?” Then they began to beat up the Palestinian worker, who later told the press about how he was attacked by a group of around twenty young Jews while he was working in Tel Aviv. A few days later, another...