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Last week, 80-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Asad was kidnapped, tied up, and apparently tortured by Israeli army thugs in the West Bank. He was found dead soon after. It's the...

Mehdi Ali was only 15 when he made the dangerous journey to Australia by boat in 2013, fleeing persecution in Iran, as members of the Ahwazi Arab minority. "Since...

The Salvadoran President, Nayib Bukele, landed in Turkey last Wednesday, 19 January, to meet with the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The next day, both leaders signed a deal...

Israeli parties have witnessed successive developments recently, including the likelihood of a political explosion following a possible deal with Leader of the Opposition and head of the Likud party,...

We all know that political lobby groups can be influential, and that those which back the occupation state of Israel are more influential than most in the West. However,...

On 14 January 2022, Russia hosted a meeting of Special Representatives for the Normalisation Process between Türkiye and Armenia, Ambassador Serdar Kılıç and Deputy Speaker of the Armenian Parliament,...

Many human rights organisations, political activists and reports point out unambiguously that the people of Egypt have lived under a brutal police state since the 2013 military coup. From...

Fighting corruption in state institutions and the public sector remains the top priority in Algeria this year as it hopes to improve the domestic situation and prevent the return...

World leaders and diplomats were quick to condemn the missile and drone attack carried out by the Houthi-allied Yemeni armed forces ("the Houthis") in Abu Dhabi earlier this week...

‘The state has become a whale that swallows everything it finds and is never satisfied’

It is ironic that even former right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had rejected a Knesset (Israeli Parliament) bill which proposed to give the government greater power to control...

Immigrant communities, wherever they go, establish their own institutions in the new societies, whether they are cultural, sports or even economic institutions, to help their members maintain their connection...

In November 2004, the Kefaya (Enough) movement was formed by Egyptian thinkers, activists and politicians, including George Ishak and Professor Abdel Wahab Al-Messiry. It was a broad political umbrella...

Every now and then the influential Tel Aviv based think tank the Reut Institute publishes a report on the growing threat to Israel's privileged status within the American body...

The League of Nations established the British Mandate for Palestine on 24 July 1922. It was intended to administer parts of the Ottoman Empire that had ruled the region...

The recent events at the Negev, which were punctuated by popular Palestinian confrontations with the occupation army, in which men and women alike participated in the steadfastness of the...

Almost two years ago, I penned an article highlighting the possibility of governments around the world – particularly Western democracies – using the spreading Covid-19 pandemic to implement a...

The summaries of the Palestinian Strategic Report for 2020-2021, launched recently by Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations, do not provide much optimism for 2022. This is despite the...

It was a week full of "Leave, Sisi!" What does Abdel Fattah el-Sisi want from the Egyptian people when he comes out with his lack of charisma, promising everyone...

There is no doubt that the vast majority of Egypt's Christian citizens support President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and his regime. They were the first to give their backing to...

For centuries before the Zionist occupation of Palestine, there were hundreds of Palestinian villages across the country. When the Zionist terror gangs occupied 78 per cent of Palestine in...

As soon as the month of January comes upon us, the memories of the Arab Spring are revived, despite all the painful blows that followed as the collective conscience...

Clashes between Israelis and Palestinians are nothing new. These episodes have been happening since the Zionist militias started the Nakba in 1948 with the violent expulsion of more than...

Long before intersectionality became a prevailing concept which helped delineate the relationship between various marginalised and oppressed groups, late South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu said it all in a...

Over the past few days, the arrest of the renowned Egyptian businessman, Mohamed Al-Amin, has been trending on social media. The media mogul who founded CBC network in 2011,...

Russia thwarted an American-Israeli plan to bomb Kazakhstan the way they did with Afghanistan, which was what happened in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, benefiting from the experience of...

After being forced to give up his Egyptian citizenship, Ramy Shaath has been released by the regime of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. The activist in the Boycott, Divestment and...

Tunisia began 2022 just as troubled as it ended the previous year, in which the milestone was marked on 25 July by a President who believed, and still does,...

After mass protests by Arab residents and threats by Arab parliamentarians, the Israeli occupation government decided on Wednesday to suspend the major Jewish National Fund (JNF) project of planting...

As we followed the various Arab and international events occurring over these past few days, two news items published by some Arab media caught our attention but were completely...

The prisoner, Hisham Abu Hawash, drew the world's attention to the plight of Palestinian prisoners after he seized his freedom with a 141-day hunger strike. He had to literally...

US lawmakers voted, last month, in support of a bill to create a State Department office tasked with monitoring and combating Islamophobia across the globe. With members of the...