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  • December 1, 2014

    Once upon a time, there was a revolution in Egypt

    Once upon a time, on January 25, 2011, the Egyptian people carried out a major revolution against Hosni Mubarak’s corrupt and unjust regime. They demanded life, freedom, social justice...

    Blog

  • December 1, 2014

    The lost children of Libya

    “He punched me in the face, beat me and drove me at gunpoint to Tripoli airport, threatening along the way to bury me in the desert.” That’s how Natalie,...

    Article

  • December 1, 2014

    Is Israel behind the 'Regin' cyber-threat?

    Last weekend the anti-virus company Symantec released details of a newly-detected piece of malware that it had intercepted and been decoding for some time. Several other anti-virus vendors released...

    Article

  • December 1, 2014

    Western academics OK human rights abuses in the Gulf

    Mass abuse of migrant workers by the Gulf monarchies and sheikhdoms has a fan-club in the West; a clique of academics, lawyers and ideologues who think that exploitative labour...

    Article

  • December 1, 2014

    200 Iranian scholars condemn Israeli violations against Al-Aqsa

    More than 200 Sunni and Shia religious scholars in Iran condemned the violation of Al-Aqsa Mosque’s sanctity at the hands of Israeli settlers and security forces. The scholars issued...

    News

  • December 1, 2014

    Gaddafi aides' trial adjourned

    The Criminal Court of Appeal in Tripoli yesterday adjourned the trial of a number of former President Muammar Gaddafi’s aides to December 14, a judicial source told the Anadolu...

    News

  • December 1, 2014

    Accountability is an essential part of the peace process, not an obstacle

    It has emerged that US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged the Palestinian Authority, possibly even used the threat of sanctions, not to ratify the Rome Statute of...

    Article

  • November 30, 2014

    Arab Foreign Ministers back Palestinian Security Council bid

    Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Saturday backed a Palestinian bid to resort to the United Nations Security Council to determine a timetable for ending Israeli occupation of...

    News

  • November 30, 2014

    Israel navy shoots at Gaza fishing boats

    Israel’s navy on Saturday opened its fire on Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of the Gaza Strip, a man speaking for the blockaded enclave’s fishermen said. “There have...

    News

  • November 30, 2014

    45 days of fighting in Benghazi leave 450 dead: Source

    Around 450 people were killed in a month and a half of fighting in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi between the Libyan army and the city’s Islamist militias,...

    News