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February 25, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi The US has asked to rejoin the UN Human Rights Council in another move that, superficially at least, spells a departure from the Trump administration's withdrawal from the institution....
![Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (L-2), Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman (4th L), Deputy Prime Minister of Oman Fahd bin Mahmoud al Said (L-3), Salman, Crown Prince of Bahrain (R-3), Vice President of the United Arab Emirates Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (R-2) and Emir of Kuwait Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (L) during 41st Summit of Gulf Cooperation Council in AlUla, Saudi Arabia on 5 January 2021 [Qatari Emirate Council/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/20210105_2_46202227_61279816.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 25, 2021 |
Hazem Ayyad Kuwait hosted some meetings a few days ago between official delegations from Qatar, the UAE and Egypt. The Qatari delegation met with UAE officials on 22 February with the...
![UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses participants at the opening of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum hosted in Gammarth on the outskirts of Tunisia's capital, on 9 November 2020. [FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1229547388-e1614245026272.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 25, 2021 |
Dr Mustafa Fetouri As the international body entrusted with world peace, security and conflict mediation worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has been involved in Libya's internal conflict from the very start. This...
![A picture taken on December 5, 2019, shows a general view of the headquarters of al-Jazeera Media Network, in the Qatari capital Doha [KARIM JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-1195347643-scaled-e1594931784639.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 24, 2021 |
Thembisa Fakude News emerged last night that Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN) is to launch a new online channel called Rightly. This was confirmed by the network today. "Al Jazeera Media...
![Palestinians come together to celebrate the 32nd anniversary of Hams in Gaza on 16 December 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Hamas-sets-up-elections-committee-in-Gaza6Z8A5754.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 24, 2021 |
Motasem A Dalloul On Tuesday, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, announced that it has carried out the first stage of its internal elections, choosing Local Shura Councils in a "democratic and...
![An Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group, on 28 August 2016, in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. [JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Israeli-spyGettyImages-596871430.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 24, 2021 |
Suraya Dadoo As internet penetration and smartphone usage increases across Africa, digital spaces have become increasingly important for organising political uprisings and opposition movements. In response, several of the continent's regimes...
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Article
February 24, 2021 |
Tasnim Nazeer The Biden administration in Washington is set to declassify an intelligence report which could be a vital step in the search for accountability over the murder of respected journalist...
![Placed at the Al-Saraya junction in Gaza, a billboard shows Shaul Arun, an Israeli solider, standing with jail bars around him [Mohammed Asad/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017_12-29-Shaul-Arun-291217_MO_00-5.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 24, 2021 |
Fayez Abu Shamalah The current Israeli government may be in dire need of a prisoner exchange deal which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can use to win over the army and the Israeli...

Article
February 23, 2021 |
Oraib Al-Rantawi On the eve of the legislative elections, the internal Palestinian situation resembles moving sand dunes; as soon as one of them settles, it is blown by the winds of...
![Palestinian and Jewish peace activists stage a protest against the court's ruling in favor of the Jewish settlers in front of the Israel Central Court in Jerusalem on 9 February 2021. [Mostafa Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210209_2_46788043_62357763-scaled-e1614082407528.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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February 23, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi The latest report by the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process painted a bleak picture for Palestine. Gone are the days when UN representatives attempted to...
![Cars drive along an overpass beneath a giant electronic billboard showing a banner by Egypt's Defence Ministry depicting President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi next to a message wishing safe travels, placed atop a second newly-constructed bridge in the Nasr City district of Egypt's capital Cairo on 15 January 2021. [AMIR MAKAR/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1230613252-e1614081312103.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 23, 2021 |
Mostafa Gaweesh "Less than one" was the phrase used by Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in a live speech last week, which prompted a wave of criticism within Egypt and beyond. Having more...
![Mahmoud Darwish (L) [COHEN MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images] / Ghassan Kanafani graffiti (C) [Wikipedia] / Mourid Barghouti (R)[Wikipedia]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/poets.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 23, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homeland and their inability to return. It is not a casual topic pertaining to politics...
![Hamas director Khalil al-Hayya and Palestinian leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar (C) with the leaders of the Palestinian groups leave the city at the Rafah Border Gate in Gaza to attend the national dialogue talks scheduled to begin tomorrow in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. in Rafah, Gaza on 7 February 2021. [Ashraf Amra - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210207_2_46757149_62304021.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 23, 2021 |
Fayez Abu Shamalah Only an ignorant individual would deny that Hamas has made some concessions in the Cairo talks and even beforehand. These concessions include the issue of salaries for Palestinian Authority...
![Egyptian presenter Tamer Amin apologizes in a video to the Egyptians from Upper Egypt [AlNahar Tv/Youtube screengrab]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/تامر-امين.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 23, 2021 |
Osama Gaweesh Television presenter Tamer Amin has sparked a storm of anger on social media with a racist story. "Sa'idi people and farmers ," he said, "have...
![Members of the Palestinian Central Elections Commission hang a sign reading in Arabic "voter information and registration centre" in the West Bank town of Hebron on 10 February 2021. [HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1231076608.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
It is difficult for me, and anyone who loves Palestine and hopes that it will return as an Islamic nation from the river to the sea, to see the...
![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (L) walks with Palestine Liberation Organisation secretary-general Saeb Erekat during their visit to the Pilgrims City, in the West Bank town of Jericho on August 6, 2018. [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-1012084788.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 22, 2021 |
Motasem A Dalloul Earlier this month, the Palestinians factions agreed that Palestinian Authority, PLO and Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas must issue a decree to order the easing of public freedoms in the...
![A protest against the Chinese government's policies and oppressions towards Uyghurs in front of Chinese Embassy in Berlin, Germany on 23 January 2021 [Abdulhamid HoĹźbaĹź/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Nassima-20210123_2_46521893_61874444.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 22, 2021 |
Dr Burhan Uluyol The Xinjiang autonomous region in China is facing the worst kind of cultural and ethnic genocide by Beijing. There is a long history of dissonance between the indigenous ethnic...
February 21, 2021 |
Lauren Lewis In late February 1966, a faction of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Syria ousted the old leadership in a coup. The new leadership of young socialist Ba'athists included...
![International Criminal Court's prosecutor (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, addresses a press conference in Kampala on February 27, 2015 [ISAAC KASAMANI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-464629660-scaled-e1613573698567.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 20, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley It has been a long time coming. Earlier this month, a panel of judges ruled that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could investigate Israel for war crimes in the...
![Tunisian President Kais Saied in Tunis on 12 October 2020 [FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-1229028129.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 18, 2021 |
Adnan Hmidan The way that Tunisian President Kais Saied wrote and addressed a letter to the prime minister recently was revealing. He seems to have abandoned his role in leading Tunisia's...
![Then US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu give joint statements to press in Jerusalem on March 9, 2016 [DEBBIE HILL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-514445400.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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February 18, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi With US President Joe Biden's first call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now out of the way, the first inklings of the new administration's diplomacy regarding Palestine and...
![Demonstrators hold banners and placards as they protest against Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum outside the High Court in London on 30 July 2019 [TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1158642364.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 18, 2021 |
Iqbal Jassat Expatriate workers in the UAE be warned: overzealous securocrats in the Gulf oligarchies are watching you and all other foreigners, ready to pounce if you dare to criticise any...
![A view of ongoing construction work at Nof Zion, a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-annexed eastern sector of Jerusalem on February 16, 2021 [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1231201122-e1613639721531.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 18, 2021 |
Dr Adnan Abu Amer A heated debate between Palestinian and Israeli circles surfaced during the past few days after the Jewish National Fund (JNF) announced new plans to expand its settlement projects in...
![A soldier waves Libyan flag as people celebrate Libyan Revolution, known as the 17 February Revolution, which ousted former ruler Muammar Gaddafi, at the Martyrs' Square in Tripoli, Libya on 16 February 2021. [Hazem Turkia - Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210216_2_46905158_62579167.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 18, 2021 |
Dr Mustafa Fetouri Wednesday marked ten years since the start of the Libyan uprising against the government of Muammar Gaddafi. France's military intervention was eventually ushered in before the North Atlantic Treaty...
![International Criminal Court's prosecutor (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, addresses a press conference in Kampala on February 27, 2015 [ISAAC KASAMANI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-464629660-scaled-e1613573698567.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 17, 2021 |
Dr Belal Yasin On 5 February the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a ruling in which it agreed to investigate possible war crimes by the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories and...

Article
February 17, 2021 |
Nasim Ahmed Arguments presented by Dr Warren highlight the ongoing battle to control the narrative about the Arab Spring
![Supporters of Houthis participate in march on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Houthis' control of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on September 21, 2019 [Mohammed Hamoud / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190922_2_38336427_47805208.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 17, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein This month, the United States removed the Houthis from its list of designated terrorist groups, a decision thought wise by the administration of President Joe Biden. That move, more...
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Yemen![Israeli forces intervene in Palestinians reacting to Jewish settlers for trying to seize agricultural lands of Palestinians in al-Ras region in Selfit, West Bank on November 30, 2020 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/20201130_2_45623647_60214148.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 17, 2021 |
Osama Othman Terrorist attacks by Israeli settlers have become more frequent in the occupied West Bank. One of the latest victims was Bilal Shehadeh Bawatna, 52, from Al-Bireh, who was killed...
![A Palestinian member of Central Elections Commission displays an information leaflet following the opening of the first Voter Information and Registration Centre in Gaza City on 10 February 2021. [MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1231075307-e1613482849110.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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February 16, 2021 |
Motasem A Dalloul In 1993, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) signed a peace agreement with Israel, ending a six-year uprising against the Zionist state's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and...
![The Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, in the al-Aqsa mosque compound, in Jerusalem's Old City on February 13, 2021[EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1231155550-e1613487639964.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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February 16, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi The Biden administration is adopting a confusing position regarding Jerusalem, signalling a possible effort to square the circle of taking the US back to the fold of international consensus...
![Palestinians hold portraits of jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti during a protest demanding for his release form Israeli prison, outside the Palestinian legislative council in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 15, 2015 [Shadi Hatem / ApaImages]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/150415_SHH_00-13.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
February 16, 2021 |
Oraib Al-Rantawi Fatah's internal divisions are overshadowing and diverting attention away from the rift with Hamas. News, leaks and analyses address the Fatah divisions, while the Fatah-Hamas split receives less attention....
![Supporters of Tunisian President, Kais Saied stage a demonstration in Tunis, Tunisia on 31 January 2021. [Yassine Gaidi - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210131_2_46643977_62103220-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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There is a complex constitutional crisis in Tunisia following President Kais Saied's refusal to allow new ministers to join the government and take their constitutional oath even after they...