by AMIRAH ALI LIDASAN
(First of a three-part column)
By AMIRA ALI LIDASAN
Davao Today
We can see the worry in the face of Princess Jacel as she updates her father, her emotional appeal to end the attack against her father’s men, and her anger at Pres. Aquino. In the press conference, she wore the Muslim woman’s veil or tirong in her Tausug language, emotional in her challenge against Aquino. This is the image of a Muslim woman challenging the state because she is a victim of government neglect, of human rights violation such as enforced evacuation in a conflict area, or whose husband or son was falsely identified as an Abu Sayyaf member and illegally arrested in exchange of rewards against terrorists.
by AMIRAH ALI LIDASAN
By AMIRA ALI LIDASAN
Davao Today
For those of you who still haven’t watched the indie film “Thy Womb,” you can come to Zamboanga City and still catch it. Viewers in Manila were complaining last month that they had to comb the metro to find Brillante Mendoza’s movie about a Moro woman from Tawi-Tawi who helped her husband find another wife so that the latter could bear him a child. Filipino viewers are so loyal to Nora Aunor, who plays the female lead character; most of them tried hard to try to stop the film from being pulled out from major cinemas, despite hardly understanding (and accepting) the movie’s theme.
by AMIRAH ALI LIDASAN
By AMIRA ALI LIDASAN
Journalists and human rights groups are marking November 23 as the International Day to End Impunity, in remembrance of the 2009 Ampatuan Massacre, which according to International Freedom of Expression Exchange is “the single deadliest incident for journalists in recent history.”
by AMIRAH ALI LIDASAN
(Last of two parts) When it comes to the problems of the Moro people, the only solution that the Aquino administration…
by AMIRAH ALI LIDASAN
(First of two parts) Eid Mubarak! As the Muslim Ummah (community) commemorates the Eid’l Adha today, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, let us…
