| Getting the Facts Behind the Scene | |
| Book Review - On Honor Killings | Burned Alive, written by "Souad" in collaboration with Marie-Thérèse Cuny (Bantam Press, 2004), is more than the recounting of shocking and tragic events that took place some 25 years ago in a West Bank village. The book addresses the prevailing taboo of honor killings, the punishment for the perceived misuse of female sexuality, and issues a heart-rending plea to expose and end such executions, which are still considered a "private" affair.
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| Palestinian Children: What Are They Taught? | 
| As part of its continuing review of the rights of children in the Middle East, the Prism Group has conducted a thorough survey of materials offered to Palestinian children in their schools. The following is a summary of a more extensive report currently in preparation.
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| Integrity of the Press in the Middle East | Freedom and integrity of the press are luxuries taken for granted in the Western world, but are sometimes rare commodities in the Middle East. The Prism Group conducted a comparative study of the way various regimes in the Middle East relate to the press - in theory and in practice - and how that, in turn, influences the integrity of the reporting from those countries.
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| Women of the Middle East |  | At the beginning of the 21st century, citizens of western, democratic societies take the rights of women for granted. However, in the Arab world many women still face insurmountable cultural hurdles.
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