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  • A United Arab Emirates-based nonprofit called Kalima

    Expanding the Arabic Reading List: 2007

  • Meanwhile, a United Arab Emirates-based project called Kalima ( "word" in Arabic) has announced plans to translate hundreds of foreign books into Arabic and distribute them throughout the Middle East.

    America for Arabs -- In Translation 2007

  • The other recipients included Naziha Rejiba, editor of independent online news journal Kalima, which is banned in her home country of Tunisia.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2009

  • The other recipients included Naziha Rejiba, editor of independent online news journal Kalima, which is banned in her home country of Tunisia.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2009

  • In the Zia days, they were arrested for reciting the 'Kalima' (the first article of faith in Islam), their versions of the Quran were destroyed, and they were not allowed to use Islamic terminology on wedding invitation cards.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said a journalist for Radio Kalima was carted off Tuesday from his home in the city of Sfax and a correspondent for the radio in the southern city of Gabes was sprayed with a Mace-like gas, pushed into a truck and taken to the Interior Ministry.

    Jobless Youths Riot Using Facebook AP 2011

  • "There is no God but God," a Taliban fighter said in Pashto, reciting a Koranic verse known as the Kalima.

    Taliban takes hold in once-peaceful northern Afghanistan 2010

  • In Tunis, Nazira Rijba, a Tunisian writer and activist, was in late 2008 charged over an article she wrote in support of the Tunisian news website Kalima which had been subject to censorship by the Tunisian authorities.

    Firas Al-Atraqchi: Middle East in 2011: Social Media to Take on Governments Firas Al-Atraqchi 2010

  • During national elections a year later, Kalima founder Sihem Bensedrine reported to the CPJ that she had been harassed by plainclothes police; a contributor to the news website also says he was attacked by security personnel.

    Firas Al-Atraqchi: Middle East in 2011: Social Media to Take on Governments Firas Al-Atraqchi 2010

  • "There is no God but God," a Taliban fighter said in Pashto, reciting a Koranic verse known as the Kalima.

    Taliban takes hold in once-peaceful northern Afghanistan 2010

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