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Behind every headline there is a multi-layered story, and behind some stories there is a Muslim reading it and rolling their eyes. This is particularly true if you are...

Activists launched the #FBFightsPalestine media campaign against Facebook (FB) this week to condemn Facebook’s deliberate targeting of pages which support Palestinian rights. Social media users across Twitter and Facebook...

Arab designers take to the catwalk at London Fashion Week

The city of Hama became known as a Brotherhood stronghold and the centre of anti-regime uprisings

On a summer’s evening in July 2015, three young children were taken by their father from Ireland to Algeria while their mother waited for them at home. Kamel Fekkar...

About 570,000 Sahrawis live in the region, the vast majority in refugee camps along Algeria’s border for the last 26 years.

Young and brimming with enthusiasm, the then presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron created shock waves when he visited Algeria earlier this year and described France’s 132-year colonial period boldly as...

Ahmed Ben Bella’s intelligence, ambition and love of his country marked him as a natural leader. Born on 25 December 1918 in the Algerian town of Marnia to Moroccan...

Today Saudi Arabia announced it will open cinemas in the Kingdom next year for the first time in 35 years. The move is part of a series of social...

London Fashion Week kicked off in the British capital last week and for the first time included a debut of Moroccan fashion as Stories from Morocco was launched.

School children sing at the Singing for Syrians in the House of Commons

“A day where I witnessed with my own eyes humanity being demolished.” That’s what Fatima Halawa, 26, replies when asked what the word “Rabaa” reminds her of. Memories of...

What: Egyptian Revolution of 1952 Where: Cairo, Egypt When: July 22-26, 1952 What happened? The Egyptian army’s failures became evident after the Arab-Israeli war in 1948 with many of...

What: Algeria gains independence from France after 132 years Where: Algeria When: 5 July 1962 What Happened? Algeria’s war of independence against colonial France, which had occupied the country...

The celebratory holiday of Eid this week had a traditional twist as Algerians took to social media to launch the hashtag #Wear_Algerian_for_Eid in a bid to encourage locals to...

The condition of Palestinian children, who have lived under occupation for the last five decades, was the main concern raised at the congressional meeting held yesterday by Ramallah-based NGO...

What: French massacre of Algerians When: 8 May 1945 Where: Setif, Guelma and surrounding areas What Happened? As Europe celebrated the beginning of the end of World War II...

As Algerians take to the ballot box today to vote in the country’s legislative elections, campaigns boycotting the vote have received more attention in the last couple of days...

Demonstrations, strikes, school boycotts, riots and arrests have been the norm in a cyclical manner in relations between the ruling Arab authority and the Berber region in Algeria for...

What: The 1980 Berber Spring Where: Tizi Ouzou, Algeria When: 20 April 1980 What Happened? On 10 March 1980, Algiers’ decision to cancel a conference in the University of...

The night was dedicated to remembering Palestinian poet and political activist Mahmoud Darwish’s powerful work on Palestine.

The stunning garden boasts hundreds of species of plants, decorated fountains, zoo and art museums.

Election season can be a circus at the best of times but in France it comes with a dose of controversy. Recent comments by presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron referring...

Six years ago North Africa and the Middle East were engulfed by the fires of the Arab Spring in events that seemed unfathomable barely a year before. Fast forward...

As it gets set to enter its sixth year in March, the war in Syria has set itself apart from other struggles of the Arab Spring since its onset...

What: 1992 elections are cancelled by the military Where: Algeria When:  11 January 1992 What happened? By October 1988, Algerians’ anger was made tangible for the country’s ruling National...

More than 1,000 people have been killed over the last month.

By the end of the First Intifada in 1993, 1,489 Palestinians and 185 Israelis had been killed

1.5 million people perished in the seven and a half year Algerian War which erupted in 1954

Fifty-five years ago today, hundreds of Algerians were massacred by French police and had their bodies thrown in the River Seine.

It is 28 years since Algeria’s “Black October” that has defined Algeria’s socio-political discourse ever since. Accepted as Algeria’s second most defining date after independence in 1962, 5 October...

Last week President Francois Hollande finally acknowledged France’s abandonment of Algerians who fought alongside French colonial forces in the Algerian war of independence. His words were welcomed by the...