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Once labelled a pariah, Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, took centre stage as Master of Ceremonies last week when Arab states readmitted Syria to the Arab League, signalling...
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Lebanon has been verbally informed of a German arrest warrant against Lebanese Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh, who is being investigated for money laundering and embezzlement in his home country and...
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May 23, 2023
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Arhama Siddiqa
On 19 May, 2023, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad attended the Arab League Summit for the first time in over a decade. The re-coalescence of Syria back in the Arab...
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May 23, 2023
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Osama Gaweesh
Embraces are fleeting, and a person may move from one embrace to another for whatever reason. This is not a phrase to promote a brothel and wasn't said by...
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Syrian refugees in Turkiye have emerged as a political flashpoint in the country's ongoing election journey, with leading opposition candidates competing to offer the most aggressive proposal to deport...
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May 23, 2023
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Pete Gregson
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust are the weapons of choice for the Friends of Israel in their determination to preserve their favourite racist colony. They will do and say anything...
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We no longer expect to see or hear anything from the moribund organisation that doesn't lift a finger to help the people it is supposed to represent, despite the...
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May 23, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Though the United States remains a strong supporter of Israel, there are some indications that the supposed 'unbreakable bond' with Tel Aviv is faltering, though more in language than...
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May 22, 2023
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Mahmoud Hassan
Amid inhumane conditions, medical neglect in Egyptian prisons opens the door to further suffering that could lead to a deterioration of political prisoners' health and possibly reaching to their...
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May 22, 2023
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Huseyin Ozdemir
The G7 group of world leaders have had their sights on the Russia-Ukraine war. Over the past few weeks, speculation has been rife about a major Ukrainian counteroffensive, reflected...
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May 22, 2023
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Eman Abusidu
Since its formation in 2006, the BRICS group has only accepted one new member in 2010. Now, 19 countries have formally or informally approached the body to become members...
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May 22, 2023
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Dr Basem Naim
The Palestinian people and their supporters around the world have just commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Nakba ("Catastrophe"). For the first time since it started, the UN has...
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Since 1968, Israelis have been parading through the occupied holy city of Jerusalem, celebrating the occupation of the eastern part of the historical Palestinian city in 1967, after the...
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May 20, 2023
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Mahmoud Mardawi
The issue of the Flag March imposes itself on Palestinian decision-makers, becoming a symbol of the Judaisation of Jerusalem and part of the battle for sovereignty over it, through...
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May 19, 2023
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Hossam Shaker
The fragility of a position is sometimes exposed when there is an exaggeration of self-confidence and an attempt to demonstrate control over the situation. This is the impression given...
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May 19, 2023
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Lama Khater
We cannot address an issue related to the Islamic Bloc at An-Najah University without recalling its great legacy, which dates back decades, and originated with the founding of the...
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May 19, 2023
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Mansoor Adayfi
The case of Saeed Bakhouche’s disappearance in Algeria proves that leaving Guantanamo doesn’t mean the end of the torture. For many of us, it is simply the next step to the same fate or something worse
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May 18, 2023
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Nasim Ahmed
Tunisian's troubling slide back into authoritarianism and the crushing of democracy by President Kais Saied was the focus of a private briefing this week between British parliamentarians, family members...
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Palestinian expatriates in Europe are facing questionable incitement campaigns from influential Palestinian entities as well as media aligned with the occupation state of Israel. The Palestinian Authority and Israel...
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The President of the Egyptian regime has launched numerous projects to boost the country's economy, but they have failed quickly and then been shut down, at a cost of...
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Syria's return to the Arab League this month was momentous, not because it came as a complete surprise – it did not – nor because it changes much on...
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Life is returning to normal in besieged Gaza, but "normal" there is actually abnormal. Israel accepted the ceasefire after killing some 33 people, including children, injuring over 90 civilians...
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May 17, 2023
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Amelia Smith
Ongoing fighting between rival factions in Sudan has created a humanitarian crisis on the Egypt-Sudan border as thousands try to escape the horrors unfolding on the streets of Khartoum....
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May 17, 2023
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Cagdas Yuksel
Following his 2020 US presidential election defeat, a new chapter has unfolded for Donald Trump as the former president finds himself embroiled in multiple investigations and legal challenges. Notably,...
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Last week, the Israeli occupation forces demolished an EU-funded school in Jubbet Adh-Dhib neighbourhood of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. It was the second time that the school...
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has failed to secure victory in the first round of the Turkish presidential elections, after receiving 49.5 per cent of the votes. A second...
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May 16, 2023
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Mahmoud Hassan
Statements by the Egyptian billionaire, Samih Sawiris, about the feasibility of investing in Egypt, raise real concerns about the blurred economic future in the country, the faltering activities of...
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May 16, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
"The thought that an international organisation could mark the establishment of one of its member states as a catastrophe or disaster is both appalling and repulsive," wrote Israel's UN...
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May 16, 2023
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Iqbal Jassat
As most of the world recoils in horror at the latest demonstration of Israeli brutality and cold-blooded killings of Palestinians, many people are asking when these Zionist-led pogroms will...
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May 16, 2023
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Naima Morelli
Alotaibi doesn't sheer away from using image distortion and experimental printing processes in order to create portrayals of male figures that contend with evolving conceptions of Arab masculinity
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The 75th anniversary of the Nakba of all Arabs and Muslims, not just Palestine, is upon us. It is the catastrophe of the entire Islamic nation that began in...
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For the past 12 years, the world has come together to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day on the 3rd Thursday of May, with this year's event falling on the...
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