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On Sunday, the shares of Juhayna Food Industries jumped by 9.95 per cent, hours after its founder and former CEO and his son were released from prison after spending...
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Syrian activists have launched an Arabic hashtag, inside Assad's prisons, to draw attention to human rights abuses carried out by the regime and to halt an overture between Ankara...
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An air force officer has been accused of violently attacking nurses at a government hospital in the city of Quesna in Menufia Governorate, Egypt. The military officer attacked six...
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"August, September, October, November." Ghafra Faraj is recalling how many times she applied to the Israeli authorities for a permit so she could leave Gaza and travel to East...
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The women's rights NGO, Equality Now, has released a policy brief to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on how inadequate justice for women and...
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Call logs released by France have revealed that French and British authorities ignored calls for help several times when a boat carrying asylum seekers ran into difficulty whilst crossing...
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Fears grow for the health of imprisoned British-Egyptian activist as Cairo considers force feeding him
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Imagine being at home with your family and five children. Cooking, watching TV, helping the kids with their homework. Then imagine Egyptian security forces breaking into your house, arresting...
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A new policy briefing by the NGO, Equality Now, on how marriage laws in the MENA region and around the world discriminate against women and girls reveals how failure...
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In November, heads of state, ministers, journalists and activists will gather in Egypt's Red Sea Resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh for the UN climate change summit, COP27. There has...
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It's Christmas Eve in London and Heba Hayek's narrator is looking to bake something that reminds her of home. She settles for basbousa, a coconut yoghurt semolina cake, which...
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As the conference approaches, Egypt’s own environmental record has come under increased scrutiny
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A young woman has been murdered in Egypt after turning down a marriage proposal from a 29-year-old man
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It is the seventh century CE and the Ummayad forces are advancing across North Africa. Their rapid expansion is fuelled by treasures and riches, their dynasty defined by opulence...
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"For women, swimming in a burkini isn't easy," Hilal Uysal Namal tells us. "Women don't feel comfortable because they look different. Also, it's important to swim without one for...
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At midnight on 24 September 2019 plainclothes police officers broke into Ahmed Al-Kholy's apartment in the Haram district of Cairo and took him to the National Security building in...
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The Turkish clothing brand LC Waikiki is under fire after it withdrew children's t-shirts from shops in Turkiye after protests that they were decorated with the Arabic language. The...
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In an open letter to the French government 459 civil society organisations have urged President Emmanuel Macron to stop the French oil giant Total Energies paying millions of dollars...
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Over the weekend Sudanese authorities handed over 21 government dissidents to the Egyptian authorities, accusing them of taking part in a terror act in the Jabra neighbourhood of Khartoum....
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An appeal court judge has refused to stop a Home Office flight carrying asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda from leaving this evening. Yesterday, the Court of Appeal...
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A court in Egypt has asked Interpol to issue Red Notices to four Egyptian journalists working in Turkiye and hand them over to Egyptian authorities. Interpol's Red Notice system...
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In 2015, Hasna Ait Boulahcen was labelled Europe's first female suicide bomber by the media, after she died in a blast in the Parisian suburbs three days after the...
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Since it was first published in 1959, Naguib Mahfouz's 'Children of the Alley' has drawn objections from scholars at Al-Azhar and instigated an attack on his life. Then in 1988...
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On Saturday, a Cairo court found journalist and writer Rasha Azab not guilty of charges of insult, defamation, and deliberately disturbing film director Islam Azazi. The case dates to...
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In 2016, when she was just 12 years old, Abeer Kaffi attained third place for her age in the Amman Marathon, an annual event held in the Jordanian capital...
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Between January and March 2013, 147 bodies were found in the River Queiq in Aleppo after they were executed in government-controlled parts of the city and dumped there as...
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Last week Egypt turned to the IMF for the third time in six years to apply for a loan as the cash strapped nation reels from an 11-year autocratic...
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Elsa Lefort met her husband, Salah Hamouri, on 18 December 2011, the day he came out of prison under the Gilad Shalit detainee exchange. As part of his supporting...
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Last week Senegal abstained on a UN Security Council vote to end immediately Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. The decision came despite intense pressure from its former colonial power, France, who wanted the West...
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In 2012, six months into the protests in Syria, activists asked for UN observers to be embedded with demonstrators to stop the Assad regime shooting indiscriminately into the crowd....
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Over the weekend, former political prisoner Ramy Shaath told the BBC that the West has considerable leverage over Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, a regional ally who has committed...
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As hundreds took to the streets in Athens and Istanbul over the weekend to protest the Greek's government's role in the death of 19 refugees, the controversial pushback policy...