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  • Supreme Court abjectly objects to objectivity

    Supreme Court abjectly objects to objectivity

    October 31, 2013 at 1:18 am / Politics

    Chief Justice Ahmed Faiz’s suggestion that UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay cannot pass comment on Maldivian politics is one that reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the country’s place in the world, and the world’s place in the country. Faiz’s labelling of Pillay’s statement as “poorly researched” appears have been chosen under the misapprehension that additional knowledge is always accompanied by additional insight. Whilst this is certainly true up to a certain point, Faiz seems to have missed […]

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  • Rashu Jeeba Dollaru Maafushi

    August 30, 2013 at 1:10 am / Arts & Culture, Business, Politics, Tourism

    A short documentary about the booming K.Maafushi guesthouse business

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  • Posters of the First Democratic Election

    Posters of the First Democratic Election

    August 1, 2013 at 2:49 pm / Arts & Culture, Politics

    Maldives held its first ever democratic election on november 2008. Mohamed Khayyam published a photographic collection of the campaign posters around the capital island, Male’. This is a publication that first appeared on http://issuu.com/mkhayyam/docs/posterdemocracy .

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  • Its the Medium, stupid.

    Its the Medium, stupid.

    July 31, 2013 at 3:48 pm / Politics

    Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “medium is the message”, the channel of delivery supersedes the content in importance, or less adamantly, the mediums influences how the message is perceived. This idea is more evident than ever during the time of elections, when political candidates and parties fall over each other to capture a slice of our consciousness & memory. Today Dr. Waheed hoisted  a larger than life “Selfie”, on a random street in Male’. The picture looms imposingly from above, […]

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  • The Most Important Art Exhibition Held In The Maldives

    The Most Important Art Exhibition Held In The Maldives

    July 27, 2013 at 3:43 pm / Arts & Culture, Politics

    Yesterday 26th July 2013, marked the 48th Independence day of Maldives, 2nd independence day to befall within the time of coup government, which over threw the 1st democratically elected government of Maldives on 7th Feb 2012. The day would have been another tedious affair, no more significant than any other, where high level government officials pat their own backs and embellish history,and weave a tangled web of deceit and xenophobia, for selfish political gain. That is until the government decided […]

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  • Rashu Jeeba Dollaru July

    Rashu Jeeba Dollaru July

    July 21, 2013 at 1:25 pm / Arts & Culture, Business, Politics, Tourism

    18 July Rashu Jeeba Dollar with Raees Nasheed & Mohamed Ishan 15 July Rashu Jeeba Dollar with MP Eva Abdulla 11 July Rashu Jeebah Dollar with Ali Shiyam 08 July Rashu Jeebah Dollar with Eyesee 07 July Rashujeebah Dollar with Eyesee 01 July Rashu Jeebah Dollar with Eyesee

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  • Rashu Jeeba Dollaru with Eyesee

    Rashu Jeeba Dollaru with Eyesee

    July 18, 2013 at 7:47 pm / Arts & Culture, Business, Politics, Tourism

    Abdulla Rasheed Abdulla Rasheed (Eyesee) came to the attention of the Maldivian Public as a key instigator of the public peaceful pro_democracy rally on the 12-13th of August 2004. Released after100 days behind bars without charge, remained the last person to be released. Prior to this he had been a manager for Mohamed Nasheed’s 1998 campaign to gain a seat in the Peoples Majlis. IC’s leadership was key in empowering the disenfranchised youth of Male’ to go out to vote […]

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  • Nostalgia

    Nostalgia

    June 30, 2013 at 12:20 am / Arts & Culture

    Ahmed Saeed or Andhu is a visual artist from the Maldives. Today, I set down with him to talk about his series Nostaligia Andhu, gives a little insight to this body of work. ”އަސްލު އައިޑިޔާއެއްނާދޭ އެއްގޮތަކަށްވެސް، އައިޑިޔާއެއް އައިސްގެންނެއްނޫން އެއްޗެއްހަދަނީ އެޕްރޯސެސްއެއް އެކްސްޕްލޯ ކުރަންމިބޭނުންވަނީ”             

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  • A moment with Immi

    A moment with Immi

    June 19, 2013 at 2:14 am / Arts & Culture

    Dinba Music collaborated with Immi to do the illustrations for their Album Balimaaneh. Immi gave emmenge a moment to talk a little bit about the illustrations and the collaborative process she went through in this project. How did you end up doing this project? I was asked by Andhu if I’d like to do illustrations for an album and I agreed. What were your thoughts when you took on this project? This is the first project that I’ve worked for in […]

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