Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday accused Israel of carrying out attacks against the Palestinians in Gaza “that violated the laws of war and apparently amount to war crimes” during its 11-day assault in May. The [ More … ]
M. O. Jones, an academic, has analyzed the UAE, Saudi-launched hashtag to defame the Muslim Brotherhood in Tunisia, proving that the hashtag was fake and tendentious. Marc Owen Jones, an assistant professor at Hamad Bin [ More … ]
For years, Damietta has been the capital of the Egyptian furniture industry, and up until recently, it was an island of growth and prosperity in a sea of economic hardship. Has the Sisi government’s megaproject [ More … ]
Tunisian President Kais Saied has sacked the government and frozen the parliament in one of Tunisia’s biggest political crises since the 2011 revolution that introduced democracy. President accused of attack on Tunisian democracy after sacking [ More … ]
Carrying out more death sentences will undermine prospects for any future transitional justice efforts Egypt’s highest appellate court this month confirmed 12 death sentences, including for several high-profile Muslim Brotherhood leaders convicted in an unfair mass [ More … ]
A family of four sons, two daughters, and both their parents has been homeless since 12 May when their apartment was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on their six-storey residential tower block in Al Naser [ More … ]
UAE has also reportedly targeted journalists at the Wall Street Journal and The Economist The United Arab Emirates may have used Israeli spyware to hack a mobile phone belonging to the editor of the UK’s [ More … ]
Protected by heavily armed Israeli occupation police, 1,371 Israeli Jewish settlers accompanied by Knesset members stormed Al Aqsa Mosque and clashed with Palestinian Muslim worshipers inside the third Islamic holy site. Media sources and eyewitnesses [ More … ]
Settler attacks on Palestinians have become commonplace in the West Bank, with settlers often throwing stones, vandalizing property and destroying olive trees belonging to the indigenous population. Four Palestinians were murdered on a single day [ More … ]
The Saudi Coast Guard has reportedly turned away three Egyptian tourist boats near the two Red Sea islands ceded in controversial deal, Tiran and Sanafir. The incident occurred on Tuesday according to Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar. [ More … ]
Instead of moving against the existential danger posed by the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the Egyptian diplomacy moves for the arrest rights defender Mohamed Sultan!! Egypt’s spy chief Abbas Kamel has claimed that Washington signed [ More … ]
Former Editor-in-Chief of Egypt’s Al-Ahram government-owned newspaper, Abdel Nasser Salama has called on Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to step down, blaming him for the “heavy defeat” suffered by the country before Ethiopia in the dam crisis. In [ More … ]
At the press conference he organized ahead of his visit to the NATO Leaders’ Summit in Brussels, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, “Turkey is the only reliable country that can prudently manage the situation in [ More … ]
Alia Mosallam was taken to Egypt’s State Prosecutor’s Office after over 17 hours of detention, before being finally released on bail Monday morning An Egyptian historian was arrested at an airport in Cairo on Sunday, [ More … ]
Disappearance of prominent opposition journalist against the Iran-backed militias in Baghdad raises concerns Iraqi vocal critic of Iran-backed armed militias Ali al-Mikdam went missing in the capital Baghdad on Friday evening, according to activists. Friends [ More … ]
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