Last fall, the Munich saxophonist and singer Rafael Alcántara was invited to Cairo by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations. In this interview with Stefan Franzen, he talks about his impressions of Cairo's music scene and the influence of the state
The Islamic Center of Daytona Beach was the site of a COVID-19 vaccination event on April 30.
It was sponsored by the Florida Department of Health of Volusia County, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the Muslim Womenâs Association of Daytona Beach.
The local health department has coordinated a number of local vaccination events since last year with the Volusia County Government.
There is now a shift from large-scale vaccination events to smaller and more community-based events. Pop-up sites like the one at the Islamic Center last week will continue.
Events like these are also part of a push to get the vaccine to underserved populations, including Black and Brown populations.
Gideon Levy, Alex Levac | Dec. 10, 2020 | 9:42 PM
Mohammed Makbal was in prison this week. He was taken there directly from the hospital, a day after undergoing surgery on his jaw, which Israeli soldiers shattered with their rifle butts while arresting him on the street. In Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, he was shackled to the bed, part of the time by the leg with an iron chain, part of the time with handcuffs. He also emerged from the operating room with his hands and legs shackled.
Makbal is a 16-year-old youth, in 10th grade at the boys’ high school in the Al-Arroub refugee camp; his father, Mounir, is deputy principal. Israeli soldiers thought Mohammed had thrown stones at them, and vented their rage on him. They arrested four other teens along with him, and beat them, too, but less severely. Eyewitnesses say the arrests were random; the soldiers grabbed whomever they could. There were many youngsters on the street to choose from.