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Palestinian-American, Amer Zahr, is on a mission to heal through humour. In 2015, he started bringing fellow Arab-American comedians from the United States to perform stand-up across occupied Palestinian...

A series of rocket attacks on a gas field in northern Iraq has sent the US contractors working on its expansion packing, dealing a blow to the Kurdish region's...

Six-year-old Farouq Mohammed Abu Naja died in the Gaza Strip after Israeli occupation authorities denied him access to medical care at Hadassah Medical Centre in occupied Jerusalem. A press...

Had the wife of hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh not publicised photos of her husband's emaciated body, the EU would have felt no urge to call for his...

The IMF and the World Bank nudged the relatively closed countries towards greater capital account liberalisation over the last few decades, sometimes pushing them using stern conditionality. Now, when...

Israel and Turkiye are moving to the next phase of relations, courtesy of a well-managed normalisation process, said the Israeli chargé d'affaires in Ankara. "I believe very much in...

When Israel's violations are caught on camera, it seeks to scapegoat the identifiable individuals only in order to safeguard the state's institutions. Israeli media quoting the Israeli Defence Forces'...

Israeli forces raided the offices of seven Palestinian civil society organisations last week and shut down the premises, following accusations of ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation...

The Spanish enclave of Melilla, one of Africa's main gateways to Europe, has had to deal with a new major influx of migrants every year. Despite the barbed wire...

In the hours after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Ilya Fomintsev, a 43-year-old oncologist and director of a medical charity, took to the streets of Moscow to protest. He...

For Israeli officials who disagree with the meetings between Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, the latter's remarks during a press conference in Germany...

It's a weekday, but 50-year-old Lebanese finance ministry employee Walid Chaar is not at work and hasn't been since June. He rushes to water the garden at his home...

We expect better terminology from a diplomat, not uncouth jargon with no other purpose except to misrepresent a bad situation. US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides spoke out recently...

Whether or not Tehran and Washington accept a European Union "final" offer to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, neither is likely to declare the pact dead because keeping...

Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas has exposed how exploitative his role is within the coalition government formed by former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. His political party, he claims,...

Iran and the United States are struggling to overcome divisions on three major issues in indirect talks on revival of a 2015 nuclear deal while months of negotiations have...

"The deaths of innocent people, particularly children, is heart-breaking," said Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, without any signs that his heart was breaking. All Palestinians, including children, have been...

Although US President Joe Biden is merely paying lip service to the two-state compromise, given that the Trump administration's legacy still holds sway over US foreign policy with regard...

Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas, does not tolerate any political thought that is divergent from his brand of corruption. While the murder of Palestinian activist, Nizar Banat, last year...

Liliane Cheaito's scratchy, laboured breathing went on until a nurse appeared at her hospital bed, where the 28-year-old has spent nearly every moment of the last two years in...

After nine years of sweeping crackdowns on dissent, Egypt is set to launch a carefully choreographed political dialogue, but the main Islamist opposition movement is excluded and critics say...

The developments in the "investigation" into the targeted killing of Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh point rather too obviously to the preservation of Israel's ability to act...

Of all the political fragmentation that Palestinians have experienced, the United Arab List's leader and Knesset member Mansour Abbas has definitely forged his own niche. Upon joining the coalition...

Forcibly displaced civilians in Syria's northwestern Idlib province are struggling to survive in makeshift tents as the summer temperatures rise higher than the seasonal average. The heat wave, a...

The Palestinian Authority is spending considerable time informing the US of its ambivalence towards Washington's foreign policy. From blind faith, to trust, to a sense of urgency because diplomatic...

US President Joe Biden said, last week in Jerusalem, on the first leg of his Middle East tour that Washington is "not going to wait forever" for Iran to...

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas's bleating during US President Joe Biden's visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank has of course achieved nothing apart from entrenching his subjugation...

When the Palestinian Authority leader jumped on the US bandwagon spouting status quo rhetoric, he should have remembered President Joe Biden's dedication to Zionism and colonial Israel. Upon arriving...

Jordan has recently increased the number of its statements about Iran and its role in the region. However, despite the differences between Amman and Tehran, the statements indicate the...

Last June, the Israeli organisation, Peace Now's Settlement Watch project released a report describing how the Bennett-Lapid government increased settlement expansion planning by 26 per cent. Under the heading,...

Last March, senior Palestinian Authority official Hussein Al-Sheikh met with now Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid to stress "the need for a political horizon" based – of course –...

The Palestinian Authority's refusal to hand over the bullet which killed Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was short lived. So was any hypothetical expectation of justice from an Israeli...