December 26, 2020 |
Dr Adnan Abu Amer In light of the ongoing wave of normalisation agreements between Arab states and the occupation, Israel is trying to lure Gulf countries, especially the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and...
December 25, 2020 |
Tasnim Nazeer President Trump's shocking pardoning of the Blackwater guards is a testament to his lack of humanity and his failure to bring perpetrators of the law to account. On 16...
December 24, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Earlier this month, Israeli and British military officials signed a joint agreement to formalise and increase their "defence relationship". The full terms of the pact are secret, but it...
December 24, 2020 |
Hisham Yacoub With the increasing number of Israeli incursions at Al-Aqsa Mosque by settlers and soldiers, we need to know how the so-called "Abraham Accords" pose a threat to Jerusalem in...
December 24, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu While Christians around the world celebrate the days of Christmas as a time of joy and spiritual renewal, the Israeli occupation makes them difficult for Palestinian Christians. Palestine, we...
December 24, 2020 |
Dr Mustafa Fetouri Acting United Nations (UN) Envoy to Libya Stephanie Williams announced on 23 October: " a crucial sign of hope for the Libyan people." Williams was enthusiastically describing a...
December 24, 2020 |
Antoine Shalhat Israel is heading towards a fourth general election in less than two years, coinciding with another confirmed fact that the competition in this election will be between the components...
December 23, 2020 |
Muhammad Hussein Afghanistan has long had a security problem, despite the many who have sought to guarantee its safety. The latest of those revealed themselves this week when Iranian Foreign Minister...
December 23, 2020 |
Mohammed Abu Rumman Jordanian officials must have breathed a sigh of relief at Joe Biden's victory in the US presidential election, as another four years with President Donald Trump in the White...
December 23, 2020 |
Al Sir Sayed Ahmed The Red Sea area has always attracted attention due it strategic position and role as one of the world's major sea lanes. The region of which it is at...
December 23, 2020 |
Haifa Zangana Engineering graduates gathered again on Sunday to protest in front of the headquarters of the Shuaiba Refinery near Basra in southern Iraq because of the government's failure to respond...
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Opinion December 23, 2020 |
Hussein Majdoubi On 27 November, Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated; the killing has been assumed widely to have been the work of Israel. While some people expected an immediate...
December 22, 2020 |
Thembisa Fakude Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt started their blockade of the State of Qatar in mid-2017. They accused their neighbour of, amongst other things, "supporting terrorism...
December 22, 2020 |
Omar Ahmed Exiled Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi announced the formation of a new unity government on Friday, just over a year after the power-sharing agreement was signed with the...
December 22, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud It is convenient to surmise that Israel's current political crisis is consistent with the country's unfailing trajectory of short-lived governments and fractious ruling coalitions. While this view is somewhat...
December 22, 2020 |
Dr Adnan Abu Amer In a surprise move, the ruling military regime in Sudan announced its intention ten days ago to revoke the Sudanese citizenship of more than 3,500 people, of whom the...
December 21, 2020 |
Dr Mustafa Fetouri The United States justice department is scheduled at 15:30 GMT today to announce a new indictment against a Libyan individual, possibly two, in the bombing of Pan Am Flight...
Ten years have passed since the outbreak of Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution, after Mohamed Bouazizi, a struggling young man who sold vegetables from his street cart, set himself on fire...
December 21, 2020 |
Dr. Belal Yasin On 15 May 1948, terrorist gangs acting for the nascent state of Israel attacked Palestinian cities and towns. Almost 70 massacres were perpetrated, in which more than 15,000 Palestinians...
December 21, 2020 |
Motasem A Dalloul Some journalists from the UAE and Bahrain have visited Israel and praised the occupation state and its people. Expressing their admiration, they claimed that the Israelis are peaceful and...
December 21, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley I've often wondered why the Muslim Brotherhood strikes fear into the hearts of Arab regimes. Prisons across Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are filled with thousands...
December 18, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Anyone visiting the West Bank, as I have done on many occasions, will discover something rather common, especially in rural communities: signs, billboards and plaques advertising the European Union...
US President Donald Trump startled Moroccans when he revealed brokering a normalisation deal with Rabat, as public attention was focused entirely on developments in the Sahara. However, the royal...
December 18, 2020 |
Dr Adnan Abu Amer The scandal caused by the photo of Egyptian singer and actor Mohamed Ramadan with Israeli artists is continuously being referred to with reference to the decline in normalisation with...
December 17, 2020 |
Yousef Al-Helou The Palestinian Authority's decision to send its ambassadors back to the UAE and Bahrain stems from the fact that it has found itself isolated amid the wave of normalisation...
The international community is still awaiting the perceptions and visions of the US president-elect's administration regarding the crises and files that have greatly complicated the term of the outgoing...
December 17, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud The notion that the Covid-19 pandemic is "the great equaliser" should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal disease is another terrible reminder of the deep...
December 17, 2020 |
Osama Gaweesh Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi told journalists during a press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris that, "It is never appropriate for us to be described...
December 16, 2020 |
Dr Mustafa Fetouri On the Egyptian presidency website there is a page dedicated to the awards and medals that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received long before he became president. Yet, the...
December 16, 2020 |
Thuraiya Mohammed Decisions made by the Iraqi government to close all internally displaced people (IDP) camps by the end of November 2020 have been disastrous. Decisions implemented without enough notice and...
December 16, 2020 |
Adnan Hmidan Chairman of the Al-Quds Committee in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, King Mohammed VI of Morocco, has no right to normalise relations with the occupation state that made Jerusalem...
December 16, 2020 |
Motasem A Dalloul Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011, around 5.6 million Syrians have been forced to leave the country. A further 6.2 million have been displaced internally due...