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June 1, 2023
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Afghan girls who educate the children of poor families living in caves in a classroom in Bamyan, one of Afghanistan's most deprived provinces, instil hope for the future of...
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June 1, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
While Israel prefers to obliterate the 1948 Nakba from its historical memory despite being the perpetrator of Palestine's ethnic cleansing and colonisation, the same cannot be said for the...
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won another term in office after receiving 52.14 per cent of the votes in the presidential election on Sunday, defeating his rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu in...
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June 1, 2023
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Ahmed Saadawi
Rising controversy has been surrounding the Iraqi provincial elections, the date of which was approved by Parliament on 6 November. Behind the scenes amongst the youth, especially those who...
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Hundreds of Libyans took to social media recently to express their anger and disappointment at the latest decision by the country's General Authority for Awqaf and Islamic Affairs (GAAIA)...
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June 1, 2023
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Eric Goldstein
It's been a year since President Kais Saied of Tunisia fired 57 judges and prosecutors, accusing them of financial and "moral" corruption and obstructing investigations. That day, Saied issued...
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May 31, 2023
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Naima Morelli
Starting this year, Abu Dhabi is building a contemporary art scene tending to the local community, and is positioning itself as the main taste-maker in the discourse on the Global South in the Middle East
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After a very tight first round, Turkiye's Erdogan has emerged the clear winner of the presidential election last Sunday. After overcoming the biggest political challenges ever faced, with a coalition comprising...
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May 31, 2023
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Omar Ahmed
With the US-backed, Saudi-led coalition's war against Yemen now in its eighth year, the country remains divided among three main competing authorities. These include the "internationally-recognised" Yemeni government, which...
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The Islamic Bloc, the student branch of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, was victorious in May in the largest Palestinian universities of the West Bank, An-Najah and Birzeit universities....
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Today marks the 13th anniversary of the massacre carried out by the Israeli occupation's naval forces against the Freedom Flotilla as it was on its way to break the...
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May 30, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
After signing a military decree on 18 May, allowing illegal Israeli Jewish settlers to reclaim the abandoned Homesh settlement located in the northern Occupied West Bank, the Israeli government...
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OPEC and its allies, including Russia, meet in Vienna on 4 June to decide on their output policy. The group, known as OPEC+, agreed on 2 April to increase...
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May 30, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
As Israeli colonial violence resulted in the forced displacement of the 200 residents of Ein Samiyah in Area C of the Occupied West Bank, the range of reactions, from...
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These were not the US elections that the entire world follows closely, that dominate the international media and that people around the world stay up late to learn the...
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May 30, 2023
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Mahmoud Hassan
"We may return to the old days, eating meat once a year…" lamented an Egyptian citizen, criticising the record-breaking rise in meat prices and the inability of people with...
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May 27, 2023
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Osama Gaweesh
The Syrians will go A phrase widely spread on billboards in Turkish cities ahead of the second round of the presidential elections, in which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
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Once celebrated as a financial wizard, Lebanese Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh, is spending his final weeks in office a wanted man, faced with French and German arrest warrants that have been prompted...
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May 26, 2023
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Nasim Ahmed
Supporters of Israel advocating for the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism have suffered a major blow in their ongoing effort to shield the apartheid state...
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May 26, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
It is unclear why 100-year-old Henry Kissinger has been elevated by Western intelligentsia to serve the role of the visionary in how the West should behave in response to...
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Early this week, the 6+6 committee, formed jointly by Libya's House of Representative based in the eastern city of Benghazi and the High Council of the State based in...
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May 25, 2023
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Turkiye's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) scored a clear victory in both the presidential and parliamentary elections held on 14 May. It won a majority of the...
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The Palestinian Nakba and the Israeli independence both commemorated their seventy-fifth anniversary this year. The disappearance of Palestinians has allowed the occupation to establish its state with a clear...
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The United Arab Emirates has become a key trade hub for Russian gold since Western sanctions over Ukraine cut Russia's more traditional export routes, Russian customs records show. The records, which...
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May 25, 2023
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Burak Elmalı
The world stands at a crucial juncture as the dire consequences of global climate change loom ever closer. Although currently distributed unevenly across nations, its effects will eventually transcend...
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May 25, 2023
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Basem Khandakji
An Amnesty International report published this month revealed details of the latest systems used by the Zionist state to enhance its comprehensive monitoring of occupied Palestine and its people,...
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May 25, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
The Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, recently made another appeal for funding, this time to the Arab League. "Support...
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An old joke playing on words is that the League of Arab States — Jami'at Ad-Duwal Al-Arabiyya — is not really a league but a nursery for the Arabs....
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May 25, 2023
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Omar Ahmed
The latest diplomatic developments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are looking positive for peace and prosperity. Iran and Saudi Arabia have re-established relations as part...
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Libya's Tobruk-based Parliament voted on 16 May to dismiss Fathi Bashagha, as prime minister of parallel government in the east of the country and replaced him with his Finance...
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May 24, 2023
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Gilbert Achkar
The Turkish election scene is truly disgusting, a scene in which the Syrian refugees have become a scapegoat and the subject of fierce bidding by various parties. Recent days...
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Israel's latest war on Gaza, starting on 9 May , killed 33 Palestinians, including six children, and wounded hundreds more. Most of those killed and wounded were civilians. On...