Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), surprised everyone by launching his “Flood of Dignity” military offensive to take the capital Tripoli. While the operation...

Israel’s colonial-settler population has elected Benjamin Netanyahu yet again as Prime Minister and the initial reactions to the result have been summed up in simple slogans that fail to...

US President Donald Trump appears increasingly to be the official sponsor of authoritarian regimes, a view given even more credence when he welcomed Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi to...

On 30 March every year, the Palestinians commemorate Land Day in memory of the killing of six protestors in 1976 after Israel had announced the seizure of Palestinian land...

The word “chutzpah” has its roots in the old Hebrew “ḥutspâ” and, as adopted by Yiddish, basically means “audacity bordering on downright cheek”. We’ve seen and heard plenty of...

Read part 1 here The Palestinian National Movement, represented by the PLO, adopted the Phased Plan almost half a century ago, 45 years to be exact. Neither the refugees...

The current violence targeting Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails dates back to January 2. It was then that Israel’s Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan declared that the “party is...

The United States is giving Israel a surplus of endless gifts, including financial gifts, weapons, and security gifts, as well as real estate property, recently, is all a normal...

Do the Palestinians have any “cards” they could play that would allow them to turn the table on the American-Israeli project, falsely named the “deal of the century”? What...

The events unfolding in Sudan are unprecedented. Tens of thousands of protestors have gathered for a fourth consecutive day outside the Armed Forces headquarters in the capital Khartoum demanding...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s favourite catchphrase — “There is no Plan B” — must be remembered every time he utters anything claiming to support Palestinian refugees. The two-state compromise...

With the Golan Heights now recognised as Israeli territory by the US, and Russia and Egypt helping to deliver gifts ahead of today’s general election, it looks like Israel’s...

Arab normalisation with Israel has entered a new phase in the last ten years, with the Gulf’s openness to Tel Aviv and the establishment of direct relations with it....

Over the past few days, there have been several incidents at universities in the West Bank. The first incident is Hamas’ student council list suffered an overwhelming defeat at...

Six months after Tunisia became the first Arab country to criminalise racial discrimination, with a law passed by the nearly unanimous vote of Tunisian Parliament, many Tunisians are recognising...

There is nothing left of the rotten fig leaves which have been used to cover Israeli Apartheid. On 19 July last year, Israel’s parliament and main democratic institution, the...

In Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Emperor’s New Clothes a vain emperor hires two tailors who claim to make the most beautiful clothes and convince him that they...

There is no doubt that the Algerian revolution achieved a great victory by ousting the head of state, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was forced to step down in the...

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons are gearing up for a mass hunger strike. Already horrific conditions in these jails deteriorated further in recent months, especially since the announcement by...

"The GMoR protests will continue until the achievement of their main goal – the termination of the 12-year-old Israeli blockade imposed on Gaza" says Hamas spokesman

There are two opposing scenes in the region right now: the first is the 30th Arab Summit convening in Tunisia, and the second is the scene of millions of Algerians...

Since its launch in 2005, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) has evolved into one of the most effective campaigns against racism. This year’s IAW kicked off in South Africa earlier...

Let’s stop for a moment and think. What does it mean for “Bibi” Netanyahu to agree to sell a German submarine to Egypt? What does it mean for Germany...

The contemporary art world has flocked for the Sharjah Biennial in the past month

Brexit has evidently opened a Pandora’s Box in British politics and created a high level of uncertainty in many policy areas. While its implications for Britain’s economy and trade...

Gaza is constantly moving left and right, focusing its main efforts on confronting the Israeli occupation, the only enemy of the Palestinians and the main cause of their suffering....

After four and a half years, the physical existence of the so-called Islamic State, also known by its Arabic acronym of Daesh, came to an end last month. The...

In his latest interview with the Times of Israel, former Israel Defence Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz makes a point which the international community and the Palestinian Authority...

The resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algeria and the mass popular revolutionary movement spreading across the spectrum in Sudan was the practical decisive response to claims that the...

The Arab League has just concluded its thirtieth summit in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, where leaders of Arab countries gathered for one day of discussions aimed at finding...

Jewish Israeli voters and the country’s right wing seem more concerned about the impact of an Arab voter surge in the 9 April General Election than the Arabs are....

The head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, revealed on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation authorities have handed over a time frame for the implementation of the terms...