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Article
April 20, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
Yemen's newly-formed Presidential Leadership Council was sworn in on Tuesday before parliament in Aden. The southern port city has served as the internationally-recognised government's interim capital since March 2015,...
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Blog
April 19, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
At an international level, Israel continues to be rewarded for its human rights violations. As momentum gains over Israel's apartheid practices, even by the UN's own Special Rapporteurs, the...
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Article
April 19, 2022
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Nasim Ahmed
The power of veto held by the five permanent members (P5) of the UN Security Council — the US, Russia, China, Britain and France — is one of the...
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Article
April 19, 2022
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Leila Hamedani
Saudi Arabia's Al-Arabiya news agency reported in February that Iraq — more specifically the Iraqi Central Bank — has played a major part in helping Iran to get around...
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Article
April 19, 2022
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Motasem A Dalloul
It was a surprise when Mansour Abbas, the head of the southern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, announced last year that his United Arab List (Ra'am) political...
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Article
A new awakening is shining from occupied Jerusalem. It started with the advent of the holy month of Ramadan and is removing the sense of despair that has descended...
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Article
April 19, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
A young journalist friend of mine in Gaza, Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh, told me that food prices in the besieged territory have rocketed in recent weeks. Already impoverished families are...
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Article
April 18, 2022
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Tasnim Nazeer
Another blessed Ramadan is upon Muslims around the world, but this year also sees yet another spate of attacks inflicted upon innocent Palestinian worshippers in occupied East -Jerusalem. In...
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Article
April 17, 2022
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Yvonne Ridley
Is Pakistan embarking on its own version of the Arab Spring? The incredible scenes of people power from Peshawar to Islamabad, Lahore to Karachi and beyond suggest that 227...
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Article
April 16, 2022
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Ismail Patel
Masjid Al-Aqsa has been in danger since the Israeli Occupation of East Jerusalem began in 1967. Since the occupation, the Israeli authorities have allowed Israeli extremists to intimidate and...
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Article
April 16, 2022
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Dr Umud Shokri
Russia's invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions against the Russian economy have made it more difficult for Russia to export energy. Upon Russia's military advance on Ukraine, India was...
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Article
April 15, 2022
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Motasem A Dalloul
As part of his desperate and relentless fight against the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is using a blockbuster Ramadan drama to demonise the Islamic group and...
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Blog
April 14, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
Can we speak of the sustainability of humanitarian aid in the face of ongoing colonial expansion and perpetual dispossession? Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini who heads the UN Relief and Works...
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Article
Yesterday evening, I had the opportunity to have the Ramadan break-fast iftar meal with a university professor from Gaza. He was my neighbour's old university classmate and was transiting...
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Article
NATO as an organisation and through its thirty individual members has been doing its utmost to help Ukraine against Russia's invasion ever since Moscow launched its attack in February....
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Article
April 14, 2022
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Seymanur Yont
The war between Russia and Ukraine since 24 February has already had a global impact. Energy prices have spiked, triggering a sharp increase in the cost of food. The...
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Article
April 14, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
The US and British governments denied their roles in the 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, for decades. Although western complicity in the toppling of...
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Article
April 14, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The meeting between Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the eastern Chinese city of Huangshan on 30 March is likely to go down...
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Article
April 13, 2022
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Dr Adnan Abu Amer
Israel not only suffered human losses in the recent attacks by lone Palestinians in Beersheba, Hadera and Tel Aviv, but it also suffered other, no less dangerous, damage. This...
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Article
April 12, 2022
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Mamdouh Al-Wali
In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there has been a major exit of foreigners from the instruments of the Egyptian government debt, estimated by unofficial sources...
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Article
April 12, 2022
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Dr Zarqa Parvez
Contemporary sport is a key component of modern nation state-building and a cornerstone of international diplomacy and image building; it is not limited to the sport in question and...
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Blog
April 12, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
In March 2021, a leaked memo from the US addressed to Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, indicated that the Biden administration might take a different approach from that of...
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Article
April 12, 2022
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Nasim Ahmed
Centrist politicians and commentators generally scorn the right wing for the polarisation of society, the coarsening of political discourse and the tribalism tearing communities apart. At the root of...
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Article
April 12, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
There is a reason why Israel is insistent on linking the series of attacks carried out by Palestinians recently to a specific location, namely the Jenin refugee camp in...
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Article
Until a few years ago, farming in southern Iraq was "as lucrative as oil", Qasim Abdul Wahad remembers, and his one-hectare farm plot in the Governorate of Basra produced...
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Article
April 11, 2022
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Elif Selin Calik
The ongoing war in Ukraine has prompted the UK to set up a new energy security plan for energy independence from Russia. Last week, the Johnson Government announced an...
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Article
The sound of normalisation in the Arab world has grown louder, with the normalising states rushing to the Israeli enemy. Those who have surrendered in the belief that they...
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Article
April 11, 2022
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Motasem A Dalloul
In order to achieve its security objectives, Israel has decided that it has to kill more Palestinians. Israeli officials call these killings "pre-emptive strikes" to prevent "terrorism". Following Israel's...
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Article
April 11, 2022
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Yvonne Ridley
The anniversary of the fateful day when US troops took the Iraqi capital Baghdad in 2003 will no doubt be marked this week with a deafening silence in Washington,...
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Article
April 9, 2022
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Rayan Freschie
As the French election looms on the horizon, Muslims in France are less interested in who will become president, instead of turning their concerns to the systemic Islamophobia that...
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April 8, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
What: The Israeli military's siege and invasion of the Palestinian Jenin refugee camp during the Second Intifada, resulting in at least 52 Palestinians being indiscriminately massacred and over 13,000...
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April 8, 2022
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Nasim Ahmed
On 2 April, 2002, Israel imposed a military siege on the Church of the Nativity in occupied Bethlehem after some 200 Palestinians took refuge inside the church