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The question that occupies the minds of the Egyptian people, amid a difficult living environment, a record rise in prices and a continuous collapse in the value of the...

Ahmad Tibi, a Palestinian-Israeli member of the Israeli Knesset, or parliament, used the famous Arab Spring slogan Monday amid mass anti-government rallies across Israel, Anadolu News Agency reports. "The...

Archaeologists have uncovered at least 2,000 mummified ram heads from the Ptolemaic period in the city of Abydos in southern Egypt. The ram heads were found with mummified ewes,...

MEMO has obtained details of the meeting in which the Muslim Brotherhood membership had the opportunity to discuss the selection of Dr Salah Abdel-Haq as the new leader of...

The Kuwaiti Ministry of Education will lay off more than 2,000 expatriate teachers and department heads in 14 specialisations by the end of the current academic year 2022-2023, Kuwait's Al-Qabas newspaper...

Saudi Arabia has condemned new Israeli plans to build hundreds of settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem, Anadolu reports. On Friday, Israel issued tenders for the construction of 1,029...

The next Arab summit will be held in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on May 19, the Arab League said on Sunday, Anadolu reports. A statement by the Cairo-based league...

Jordan on Saturday decried new Israeli settlement plans in occupied East Jerusalem as a violation of international law, Anadolu reports. On Friday, Israel issued tenders for the construction of...

Turkiye's presidential spokesman said Saturday that Ankara has left the door open to Stockholm's bid to join NATO if it shows will and determination, Anadolu reports. "The door is...

Ethiopian Vice-Chair of the Renaissance Dam Coordinating Council Faqrati Tamru announced on Friday that 90 per cent of the construction of the Renaissance Dam had been completed. Meanwhile, Egypt's...

Senior Israeli army officials have warned of a major crisis in light of "tangible threats of multi-front escalation," Akka news website reported on Friday. The senior army officials, according...

Despite the recent pledge made at the Sharm El-Sheikh Summit to suspend new settlement units, the Israeli occupation government issued tenders for 1,029 settlement units, Israeli rights group Peace...

Between Thursday and Friday morning, the Syrian National Earthquake Centre recorded 34 tremors hitting Syria and Turkiye with intensities ranging between 4.1 and 4.9 magnitudes, with a depth of...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has wasted vast sums of money at a time when Egyptians are starving, according to an analysis by Israel's Haaretz newspaper. The newspaper pointed...

Tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers flocked to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan for noon prayers, which passed peacefully amid tight security imposed after months...

Islamic giving plays an increasing role in helping the forcibly displaced people, a UN refugee agency official said on Friday, Anadolu News Agency reports. At the start of the...

Following a diplomatic thaw between regional arch-foes, Iran and Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom's top diplomat on Wednesday phoned his Iranian counterpart to convey his well wishes upon the arrival...

Preparations for the first review of Egypt's economic reform programme with the International Monetary Fund have begun and dates for the review mission will be announced when agreed with...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan kicked off his official election campaign on 10 March. The presidential and parliamentary elections have been brought forward to 14 May, having originally been...

The global and regional echoes of Chinese mediation between Saudi Arabia and Iran will reverberate for quite some time. China announced its first diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East...

Hamas yesterday welcomed the outcome of a Jordanian Parliamentary vote which called for expelling the Israeli ambassador from Amman, stressing its full solidarity with Jordan in "confronting the Israeli...

An advertisement by a company in Egypt that it is selling knafeh dessert with payment made in three monthly instalments has sparked a social media controversy. The advert said...

A newly-elected senior official of the Muslim Brotherhood leader has said that he plans to "revive the movement, relaunch and strengthen it, take care of its members who are...

Egypt warmly welcomed Turkiye's Foreign Minister for the first time in a decade that saw relations between the two countries soured over, mainly, what Ankara saw as a "coup"...

Israeli security officials are reportedly concerned that controversial statements made by Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, could damage ties with Egypt and Jordan. On Sunday, Smotrich, leader of the Religious...

The World Bank said, on Wednesday, it had approved a new $7 billion partnership agreement with Egypt for 2023-2027 with a focus on boosting private sector jobs, provision of...

The United States is "actively" working on re-establishing a diplomatic presence in Libya, US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said on Wednesday, although he declined to provide an exact...

President Tayyip Erdogan faces the biggest test of his 20-year rule in the May elections that will decide not only who leads Turkiye but how it is governed, where...

Israel's most hardline government came into power on 29 December 2022, with its members announcing their plans to ignore international laws and work towards annexation of Palestinian land, how should the EU react?

England's Premier League and English Football League (EFL) match officials have been told by refereeing body Professional Game Match Officials Ltd (PGMOL) to pause play so Muslim players can...

The Middle East may have an abundance of oil and gas, but it has very few natural water sources. This is fast becoming a source of tension. According to...

The Middle East has been in turmoil for decades, with conflicts often fuelled by historic rivalries, sectarianism and geopolitical interests. However, in recent months, there have been some significant...