Jordan: “We were rebels”

October 8, 2009 at 9:01 pm · Filed under web journalism and tagged: activism, human rights, Jordan, Middle East, music, Security, Sweden

“Wherever we came out we were branded Satanists,” writes Rami Abdel Rahman in this personal account of his experiences as a young metal head in the 1990s heavy metal scene of Jordan.

Read the whole story at Freemuse.org

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Transgender belly dancer helps launch Arab gay initiative

August 21, 2009 at 2:30 pm · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: EU, human rights, Immigration, lifestyle, Middle East, Sweden

As a human rights group publishes details of a bloody campaign of hate being waged against gays in Iraq, Rami Abdelrahman speaks to members of a recently founded initiative for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Arabs in Sweden.

Read article here.

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Arabic LGBT Group established in Sweden

August 3, 2009 at 10:54 am · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: human rights, RADIO, Sweden

This is a radio report I did for SR Arabic, the report is between 19:40 and 28:00 minutes, and involves interviews with the founders of the Arab Initiative, a group for LGBT Arabs in Sweden.

To listen, click on this link…

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”Vi är många som känner för det palestinska folket” – webbradio – sr.se

June 21, 2009 at 12:05 pm · Filed under RADIO and tagged: human rights, Israel, Middle East, Palestine

Två av de personer i Stockholm som på fredagen demostrerade till stöd för palestinierna i Gaza. Reporter: Rami Abdelrahman. Lyssna här.

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No Honor in Killing

June 18, 2009 at 10:09 pm · Filed under web journalism and tagged: activism, human rights, Jordan, Middle East, Syria

For the past three weeks, Jordanian bloggers have been renewing calls against “honor killings,” following a court conviction of a father – and his two sons – for beating his daughter to death for “going out with full make up.” Report.

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