The Nahmias Cipher Report

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 14:30 PM EDT, 18 May 2012 THE HAGUE – It is unfortunate for the survivors of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica siege that resulted in the genocide of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys must continue to wait for justice. The aforementioned atrocities occurred under the leadership of Ratko Mladić, [...]

Reblogged from This is MY Soapbox: Are all men pedophiles? Of course not! But this is the recent subject of a documentary. I’ll let you watch the trailer. The trailer isn’t bringing up any facts that would change my mind. Just because models start off their careers at the age of 16 doesn’t imply that all [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 15:11 PM EDT, 6 April 2012 AFGHANISTAN – When the book “The Kite Runner” was made into a movie many people, including me, were shocked at the scene where a Taliban leader rapes a boy in the story. I thought that this must be aberrant behavior peculiar to the individual [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 20:50 PM EDT, 5 April 2012 BALOCHISTAN, Pakistan – Recently, we wrote about the Tuareg of North Africa and the battle they are fighting in Mali for independence as an autonomous country. There is another little known group of people also fighting for their independence, as well as control over [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:31 PM EDT, 18 March 2012 MOROCCO – On Saturday, 17 March 2011, thousands of people around the world awoke to the horror of the suicide of a young girl who had been forced to marry her rapist. Her rapist was given the option of marrying the girl under Article [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 11:37 AM EDT, 13 February 2012 Most often we in the West are exposed to and challenged by an increased number of news stories of the heinous, misogynistic treatment of women and young girls all over the world. Thankfully, there are a cadre of people and organizations dedicated to bringing [...]

SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. The state takes one and gives it to your neighbor. The neighbor loses the cow and wants another one. COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk for your work, instead of a paycheck. FASCISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 00:22 AM EDT, 13 January 2012 In the absence of Al-Qaeda the Taliban has become the new face of extremist Islam. Members of the Taliban condone the stoning death of women who have been raped, who are not covered in accordance with their dictates of modesty, or who dare speak [...]

Women, War & Peace is a bold new five-part PBS series challenging the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain. Spotlighting the stories of women in conflict zones from Bosnia to Afghanistan and Colombia to Liberia, it places women at the center of an urgent dialogue about conflict and security, and reframes our [...]