Inside Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's prisons of death doctors, engineers, teachers, intellectuals, students, young men, and women are subjected to enforced disappearance and detention in conditions that do...

When the Israeli Knesset (parliament) failed to renew what is commonly referred to as the Family Reunification Law, news reports and analyses misrepresented the story altogether. The even split...

The political crisis in Tunisia is ongoing, although time is not in the country's favour, in particular as the healthcare situation dwindles due to the spread of the coronavirus...

"Failure" or "stumble" are the two words most frequently associated with the Renaissance Dam when you Google the issue. The failure of negotiations and stalled round of talks between...

As Israel celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War, more shortcomings of the Israeli military are surfacing and seem to be centred on the lack of readiness...

Egypt resorted to the UN Security Council to solve the problem of the Renaissance Dam after it had exhausted all its efforts in futile negotiations that did nothing. As...

This week, Israel's Parliament the Knesset failed to pass an extension to Israel's racist marriage law. The law bars the spouses of Palestinian citizens of Israel from receiving citizenship....

The suppression of freedoms, threats and political arrests in the West Bank have increased following the assassination of political activist and parliamentary candidate Nizar Banat. Banat was killed under...

Last month, Israel called out China over human-rights abuses against more than one million ethnic Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. This was reportedly after US pressure to do so. Ironically,...

The Palestinian Authority has two ways of dealing with detainees and demonstrators. When the occasion arises, particularly if coordinated hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners in Israel jails make international...

The last official border crossing open for humanitarian aid to get into north-west Syria is about to close. The lives of almost four million people – including the displaced...

News of the execution of 25-year-old engineering student Moataz Mostafa Hassan in Egypt has passed quietly. He was found guilty of questionable charges as have the 97 other citizens...

The disagreement between the UAE and Saudi Arabia over a proposed deal by OPEC+ to increase oil production is the latest sign that the close relations between the two...

What do you think of when someone mentions Brazil? Football? Coffee? The samba? Lovely people? Any and all of these probably. However, for Israel, Brazil is the home of...

On 2 July, the UN-led Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) ended four days of talks in Geneva but failed to reach agreement on the task at hand: agreeing a...

Another football "controversy" arose when footballers playing in the ongoing UEFA Euro 2020 tournament kneeled down before kick-off in protest against racism, a serious problem that has plagued football...

The British Labour Party has become embroiled in another major race row following its decision to readmit Trevor Phillips to the party just over a year after he was...

The leading opinion poll company in Tunisia has surprised everyone by ranking, for the first time, a prominent leader of Ennahda movement as the most popular political official who...

The town of Beita has turned into an icon of the popular resistance in occupied Palestine. It appears to have channelled the spirit of the Jerusalem uprising during the...

They die 1,000 times. This is how I describe the lives of those who have been sentenced to death in Egyptian prisons. They wait for death at any moment....

Whenever Israel bombs Gaza, donor countries are expected to raid their treasuries and manage the resultant humanitarian crisis. The aftermath of the latest colonial aggression against the enclave is...

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll met with the German Ambassador, Susanne Wasum-Rainer, on Monday along with visiting German parliamentarians. Roll thanked the German guests for their country's strong...

Claims that the Palestinian Authority's days are numbered are now heard frequently. This is especially so following the torture to death on 24 June of a popular Palestinian activist,...

The various Libyan factions with different regional, tribal and political affiliations have met for the twentieth time in Geneva but, unfortunately, it was announced on Saturday that they had...

The lengthy-term of office of Benjamin Netanyahu was marked by strained relations with Jordan. The new Israeli government is now seeking to restore relations with the Hashemite Kingdom, which...

Nearly two centuries ago, the Egyptian state began giving attention to Pharaonic antiquities, preserving them in a museum and presenting them to the Egyptian people, as the Europeans used...

Many people object when first learning that Israel participates in the Eurovision Song Contest. Why is such an obscenely violent and racist human rights-abusing regime allowed to participate in...

The Palestinian Authority might not have envisaged that the killing of Nizar Banat by its security services would have unleashed such a response from the Palestinian people. Ongoing demonstrations...

The International Berlin Conference on Libya — Berlin II — concluded last week with a rather short communiqué. It predecessor, the January 2020 Berlin I conference, ended with 66...

During his visit to the UAE, Israeli Foreign Minister and Alternate-Prime Minister Yair Lapid inaugurated the Israeli embassy in Abu Dhabi, met with his counterpart Mohammad Bin Zayed and signed an agreement on...

Hundreds of frontline foreign fighters have been told to fall under the direct control of the main rebel group leading the Syrian civil war in the Idlib region or...

Iraq, Jordan and Egypt announced their agreement on security and political files — notably the fight against terrorism, the Palestinian cause and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam — at...