The Nahmias Cipher Report

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 13:15 PM EDT, 30 March 2012 “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 10:04 AM EDT, 26 March 2012 NEW DELHI, India – Three years ago, on 13 April 2009, Shri M. Hamid Ansari, the current Vice President of India, released a book titled, “Challenges and Strategy: Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy” authored by Ambassador Rajiv Sikri of the International Institute for Strategic Studies [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:14 PM EDT, 21 March 2012 BAHRAIN – On Tuesday, 20 March 2012, the Bahraini attorney general concluded his summation in the government’s case against the medics who defied an injunction against treating wounded Arab Spring protesters last year. Although, the prosecutor initially suggested that the charges against the 20 [...]

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: 18:52 PM EDT, 27 February 2012 SANAA, Yemen – Exiled Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh is rumored to have made plans to live in exile in Ethiopia. News sources have already published photos of the ousted president standing with the Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi. Saleh and his family, according to [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:58 PM EDT, 23 February 2012 MANAMA, Bahrain – Only history will reveal the true extent of change wrought by the 2011 Arab Spring, but it is obvious that the situation in the Middle East is fundamentally different from what it was a year ago. Many changes have occurred, though [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 13:16 PM EDT, 9 February 2012 NEW DELHI, India – Yesterday we wrote about the scandal of three Indian politicians watching pornography during a parliament session. Today, Indian is once again in the news but in a slightly more positive light. South African peace activist, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 [...]

Henna is traditionally used to mark important life events such as marriage. When most people think of henna they recall the designs such as those in the photo to the left. This type of design is a “Bridal Mehndi.” In Africa, there is another more painful tradition of scarification; however, in regions throughout the world where Henna plants are grown and cultivated, women have used this plant for centuries to adorn themselves with exotic and beautiful designs, each as unique as the woman who wears them.

In the Middle East and North Africa women rights are coming to the forefront as they begin their modern-day suffragette movement amidst the recent uprisings – now known as the “Arab Spring”. Suffragette “derived from the word “suffrage“, means the right to vote,” however; women across the Middle East are fighting for more than the [...]