Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met with his Saudi counterpart at a regional conference in Jordan on Wednesday This meeting is the first highest-level public contact between the two countries since they severed the diplomatic [ More … ]
Visitors to Sharm el-Sheikh also face extensive searches and video surveillance in taxis. The visitors to Sharm el-Sheikh face extensive searches, an intrusive attendee application, and taxi video surveillance monitored by a “security observatory”, reported [ More … ]
The Egypt Economic Conference, a three-day, government-organized forum about the future of Egypt’s economy, kicked off in Cairo Sunday with self-congratulatory speeches from Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and other state leaders. After decades of poor economic [ More … ]
A Kuwaiti official attending an international conference in Russia was widely praised on Wednesday after criticising Israel and kicking out its representative from the hall. Israeli delegates at a conference in Russia’s St Petersburg were [ More … ]
The relations between Turkey and Tunisia, the unique country that sustains the hopes for the Arab Spring, has continued to increase in the period after 2011. Turkey has provided important contributions to Tunisia’s democratization process, the [ More … ]
A virtual conference, parallel to al-Sisi ‘s Sharm al-Sheikh Conference “Youth Conference”, was held on the social networking sites, where Egyptian activists launched the hashtag #Al-Shabab Fein? (#Where_Have_The_Young_Ones_Gone?) The Hashtag was ordered the first on Twitter [ More … ]
Yoni Ben-Menachem, an Israeli expert on Arab affairs, said Egypt is helping Mohammed Dahlan, the Palestinian Fatah leader, through a conference that is held these days in Cairo under the auspices of the Egyptian intelligence Service to [ More … ]
Palestinians in Turkey Conference called in its closing statement on Sunday for uniting all Palestinian efforts in face of Israeli occupation and maintaining all Palestinian constants, mainly Jerusalem, prisoners’ issue, the refugees, and the right [ More … ]
Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry traveled to Beirut on Monday to hold talks over the presidential vacuum in Lebanon and its consequences on the country’s future. According to Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abou [ More … ]
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