With poor internet and electricity, Palestinians flock to co-working spaces and
find hope despite Israel’s attacks
It took more than 20 minutes and eight dropped WhatsApp calls to finally connect
with Farida Adel in Gaza. Internet service is not reliable anywhere in the
territory, including in the provisional co-working space in the city of Deir
Al-Balah, where she and 50 or so others work remotely.
An English teacher by training, Adel splits her time between a makeshift
classroom in a tent, where she teaches for free, and a table in this cafe turned
workspace where she translates documents from Arabic to English. Over the grainy
video call, other freelancers who had been forcibly displaced to the central
Gazan city could be seen working alongside her, all of them vying for the
coveted internet connection.
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Abdo Mohamed and Hossam Nasr organized event outside headquarters to reject
company doing business in Israel
Two Microsoft employees who were fired last week after organizing a vigil for
Palestinians killed in Gaza say the company retaliated against them for their
pro-Palestinian activism.
The two, Abdo Mohamed, a researcher and data scientist, and Hossam Nasr, a
software engineer, organized the event outside Microsoft headquarters in
Redmond, Washington, on 24 October. They were fired later that evening.
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Depends if you follow the Netanyahu narrative
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It’s a case of misfortune telling
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The world seems on the brink of war after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and
Iran’s missile strike in retaliation
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