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Aysha Taryam

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Aysha Taryam, the first Middle Eastern female Editor-in-Chief of an English language newspaper - The Gulf Today - embodies the twin qualities of a writer and a liberal campaigner. Taryam is a member of the family that owns the famous UAE-based media house Dar Al Khaleej.

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	The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries by Aysha Taryam (Goodreads Author), Shaadaab Bakht (Editor), Ansar Saleem (Illustrator) 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	في مواجهة اللامبالاه: مجموعة من التعليقات by عائشة تريم, Aysha Taryam (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A young man turned war reporter asks; why should he continue to bare witness to the atrocities around him when half the world refuses to listen and the other half cannot make it stop.

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A young man turned war reporter asks; why should he continue to bear witness to the atrocities around him when half the world refuses to listen and the other half cannot make

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All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard’s Adventures in Life, Loss and Art (International Edition)

by Patrick Bringley (Goodreads Author)

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The Overstory

by Richard Powers

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One, No One and One Hundred Thousand

by Luigi Pirandello

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“If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere.”
― Aysha Taryam

tags: discrimination, domestic-violence, feminist-quotes, violence, violence-against-women

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“The word feminism has become synonymous with man-hating when in fact it has more to do with women than men.”
― Aysha Taryam, The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

tags: feminism, gender-equality, women-s-rights

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“Every woman, hell, every man should be a feminist, that is the only way to render this word obsolete.”
― Aysha Taryam, The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

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“Every woman, hell, every man should be a feminist, that is the only way to render this word obsolete.”
― Aysha Taryam, The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

tags: feminism

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“Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.”
― Aysha Taryam, The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

tags: democracy, philosophy, politics

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“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.”
― Aysha Taryam, The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

tags: journalism, philosophy, politics, writers-writers-on-writing

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“Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?”
― Aysha Taryam, The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

tags: animal, culture, humanity-and-society, philosophical-musings, philosophy-of-life

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“The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.”
― Aysha Taryam, The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

tags: arabspring, democracy, dictators, dictatorship, egypt, philosophy, politics, revolution

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