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Dr. Cesar Chelala

César Chelala, MD, PhD, is a co-winner of an Overseas Press Club of America award. He is also the foreign correspondent for Middle East Times International (Australia).

Human Rights Activist Gideon Levy: A Voice of Sanity from Israel

In spite of a systemic policy of demonization against him, Gideon Levy continues denouncing the Israeli government crimes against the Palestinians.

April 23rd, 2018
Dr. Cesar Chelala
April 23rd, 2018
By Dr. Cesar Chelala
Journalist Gideon Levy speaks at a Seminar of the Communications Dept. at Ariel University. (Photo: Flavio~/Flickr)

I first learned of Gideon Levy many years ago, during a casual conversation with an Israeli human rights activist. He told me that he had asked Levy why was he such a serious critic of Israel’s government and its policies with the Palestinians. Levy, whose own father was a German Jewish refugee who had settled in Israel, responded, “I don’t want

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Is Microcephaly In Children Caused By The Zika Virus Or By Pesticides?

Toxic pesticides are used extensively in Brazil’s north-east, where almost a third of cases of microcephaly have occurred so far.

February 17th, 2016
Dr. Cesar Chelala
February 17th, 2016
By Dr. Cesar Chelala
Sophia, who is two weeks old and was born with microcephaly, sleeps before her physical therapy session at the Pedro I hospital in Campina Grande, Paraiba state, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 12, 2016. The Zika virus, spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, is suspected to be linked with occurrences of microcephaly in new born babies, but no link has been proven yet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

At the end of October 2015, the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, located in the northeast of the country, started reporting a dramatic increase in the number of babies born with microcephaly, a condition characterized by a shrunken head and brain. The cases in Pernambuco were soon followed by similar ones in the nearby states of Bahía and

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