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                                        WHEN ISRAEL KILLS DOCTORS AND NURSES The story unfolded on March 23rd, but it was only this week that details emerged of a massacre committed against doctors and nurses in Gaza, in which 15 of them were murdered, without the slightest justification. Various Arab and foreign media outlets reported on this massacre this Saturday, but certain details that have only just been revealed were unknown. The medics were traveling in two vehicles marked as belonging to a medical corps. They also wore reflective tape to confirm that they were medical personnel. It is a blatant lie to claim, as the Jewish armed forces did, that they belonged to a terrorist group. The United Nations General Security Council recovered a cell phone video of a medic who died in the attack, although he was able to film some scenes before he died. This murder of 15 medical workers lac...

                                          AL ANDALUS IN THE HEART OF RIYADH These were splendid centuries for the Arabs; golden centuries that should never be forgotten. Al Andalus led the world in several disciplines: mathematics; medicine; astronomy; but there were more. Associations promoting dialogue among civilizations held a tribute to Al Andalus in Riyadh at the end of March. Among other aspects, Al Andalus became the capital of mathematics in the world. A number of experts in algebra (al-djabr); number theory; arithmetic; and geometry stood out there. But it would be a mistake to speak only of them, since the list of inventors is quite considerable. But why are the Spanish interested in the past of Al Andalus? Because it represents the Age of Enlightenment, as Alejo Carpeentier would say. A time of conviviality and discoveries that live on in the memory. The choice of Riyadh...