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July 27, 2016

Investors: 40% of factories in Egypt closed due to dollar crisis

The increase in the value of the dollar, which has surpassed 13 Egyptian pounds, has forced factories to close and business owners to call on the government to stop...

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July 27, 2016

MSF to open hospital in Ramadi

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will open a hospital in Ramadi, Anbar province, western Iraq, a government official announced. Member of the Anbar Provincial Council, Amal Al-Dulaimi told the Anadolu...

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July 26, 2016

Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World

In the seventh century Arab World a king’s legitimacy was recognised through the praise he received from his contemporary poets – because of this a ruler is often remembered...

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July 26, 2016

Suez Canal offers 45% discounts for giant oil tankers en route to Arab Gulf

Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority offered up to 45 per cent discount to Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC) oil tankers en route from the United States to Arab Gulf countries...

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July 26, 2016

International report: 17% of companies in Egypt were asked to pay bribes

An international report issued by three prominent international credit and financial institutions revealed that 17 per cent of companies in Egypt have experienced at least one situation where they were asked...

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July 26, 2016

DCI official, Ayed Abu Eqtaish, speaks to MEMO on Palestinian child detainees

In June 2012, a delegation of nine UK lawyers led by the former British Attorney-General, Baroness Scotland, published an independent report entitled Children in Military Custody on the plight...

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July 26, 2016

Turkish defense minister criticise ‘pro-coup’ BBC coverage

Turkey’s defense minister criticised BBC’s “pro-coup” coverage of the July 15 attempted coup in a telephone conversation with his British counterpart, according to a Turkish Defense Ministry source. National Defense Minister Fikri Isik...

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July 26, 2016

Palestinian forced to demolish his house in Jerusalem

A Palestinian Jerusalemite, Abdul-Naset Qara’een, demolished part of his house located in Wadi al-Hilaw area in East Jerusalem’s Silwan neighbourhood, Felessteen newspaper reported on Monday. Qara’een demolished a 22-metre-square...

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July 26, 2016

Hamas to prepare technocrat lists for local elections

Hamas leader in the West Bank Hussein Abu-Kwaik said that his movement had started “initial discussions” to prepare national technocrat lists for the local elections in both the West...

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July 26, 2016

Netanyahu: “Israel’s ties with the world are better than ever”

Responding to criticism over his failure to appoint a foreign minister since March, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset State Control Committee on Monday that “Israel’s ties...

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