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The associate professor of Middle East Studies says because people have latent feelings that are shared by influential figures, these feelings are seen to be acceptable or encouraged
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At the beginning of March a picture of anti-racist, Tunisian activist Saadia Mosbah was posted on social media. The comments below accuse her of receiving money from the Germany...
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Over a decade on, the Syrian regime has tortured thousands of people and many families still do not know the fate of their loved ones.
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One student in Tunis fears most for his female colleagues; a story is circulating that Tunisian men pretending to be police are approaching sub-Saharan African women, luring them away...
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Algerian novelist and professor Ahmed Taibaoui on existentialism, plotting a novel and what it’s like to win the Naguib Mahfouz prize for literature.
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This is how survivors of the deadly earthquakes which hit large parts of southern Turkiye and northern Syria are describing their hometown of Jindires in the Aleppo Governorate in northwest Syria.
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At around 4 o'clock on Monday morning, Malik Abu Ubaidah awoke to his home rocking on its foundations. He got up, gathered his children together and stepped outside into...
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In December 2010 Mohamed Bouazizi grew so frustrated with inequality and corruption in the Tunisian government that he set himself on fire in the town of Sidi Bouzid, 100...
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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...