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In February the Egyptian government tried to sell its draft personal status law on a clause that would see men who did not inform their first wife they were...
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When Sahar Khalifeh was young, her family didn't support her dream of becoming a writer. They regarded art as a sin that would ultimately destroy the family's reputation. "The...
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On 22 August 2020 Mona Alshazly received a devastating phone call from her mother. "They've taken everything," she told Mona, screaming and crying. "Our documentation and all of our...
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Amidst the harsh, rugged environment of Baqa'a refugee camp in Jordan a Palestinian apprentice seamstress runs her hands across rolls of velvet. Hands that speak of a decaying spirit...
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On 20 February 2021 Manar Abouelnaga and her son appeared in front of Egypt's state security prosecution two years after their forcible disappearance. Al-Baraa was just three-years-old. The house...
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On a warm evening in April 2020, an image of Al Jazeera anchor Ghada Oueiss nude in a hot tub lit up the internet. It was captured in the...
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Demonstrators who joined the millions of people in downtown Cairo a decade ago, 25 January 2011, navigated the shifting sands of the regime's shock, conciliatory tone and anger and...
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Across Palestine, schools are closed to try and stem the spread of the virus, but Al-Maleh Elementary has struggled to offer remote learning, because of the lack of internet and electricity in the village.
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The Nahr we meet some way into Susan Abdulhawa's "Against the Loveless World" is a different one we imagine to the figure who sits in an Israeli jail cuffing her own...
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On 27 September, Egypt's public prosecution ordered that 79 children detained since the start of the demonstrations be released. All the children were aged between 10 and 15 and...
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On Friday 25 September Amr Abn Hashad went to the Egyptian consulate in Istanbul for his tawkeel, or power of attorney. They gave him a receipt and asked him to...
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On 10 September 2020 Dr Adnan Al-Jasem became the first doctor in northern Syria to die from coronavirus. Al-Jasem had fled the bombings in Deir Ezzor in the east...
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Just before Marie Colvin died, she was looking for her shoes. Rockets had already hit the top floors of the makeshift press centre where she was holed up, in...
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A so-called terrorism court in Egypt has sentenced the President of the Cairo Institute of Human Rights Studies, Bahey El-Din Hassan, to 15 years in prison in absentia. The...
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On 4 August 2020, 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut Port, sending a mushroom cloud above the city, and lighting a touch paper at one end of...
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On 23 June Sanaa Seif, along with her sister Mona, arrived at the Egyptian attorney general's office to file a complaint. The night before, a group of government thugs,...
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On February 8 2017, Areej and Ashwaq Hamoud packed their belongings and left the house where they grew up in Saudi Arabia to board a plane to what they...
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In 2008 Mohsen Al-Sukkari held up a card which identified him as block management and stepped inside the apartment of Lebanese pop sensation Suzanne Tamim. The next morning, she...
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Egypt is facing a catastrophe of epic proportions in the form of coronavirus. Hospitals are closing across the country, doctors are being hooked up to mechanical ventilators, and patients are...
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As the number of medical staff testing positive for COVID-19 continues to climb, hospitals have closed their doors across the country
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When Ibrahim was arrested it was a summer's day in Arish, the capital of North Sinai, and he was wearing a light t-shirt and a pair of jeans. Two...
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When Bill Jones* and his partner arrived at Luxor Airport to prepare to fly back to Cairo at the end of February, it was the end of a two-week...
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When former President Hosni Mubarak was acquitted of corruption in January 2015, analysts had already predicted it as a foregone conclusion. For many it was evidence that the deep...
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Everything you need to know about Egypt’s ethnic cleansing of the Bedouin
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When Trump announced Jerusalem was Israel's undivided capital under his so-called "deal of the century", the Egyptian public questioned whether Al-Sisi had a hand in preparing the plan. His...
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received the German Order of St. George in recognition of his peace-making efforts in North Africa
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The first time Sara Mohani was arrested security forces lined her up against a wall and described her body in intimate detail. "If we find any photo of the...
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Last week Egypt launched “Qader 2020”, a military display of ground, naval and air units choreographed to demonstrate the strength of the country’s armed forces
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When former Egyptian MP Ziad Al-Alimi was arrested by security forces, Ramy Shaath told his wife that of the coalition of activists that organised the 2011 protests against Hosni...
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In the midst of the 2011 uprising then newly appointed Vice President Omar Suleiman said that Egyptians were not ready for democracy. Such comments were to be expected from...
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The Egyptian army did not have to pay tax or customs on products entering the country which made it impossible for other businesses to compete
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Egyptian whistleblower Mohamed Ali told MEMO that he built the part of the intelligence headquarters where the cyber army was housed