British comedian and champion of Palestinian rights Jeremy Hardy has died of cancer aged 57. Born in England in 1961, the BBC radio star made his name on the...

Although his detractors paint him as an extremist, Egyptian-born Dr Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi is, in fact, a moderate scholar whose flexible approach to Islamic Law has actually pitched him...

Jamal, a leading journalist and columnist on the MENA, and an outspoken critic of the Saudi regime, was killed on 2 October at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul

As Israelis celebrate 70 years since the Jewish state was established, Palestinians all over the world mark 70 years since the mass expulsion of nearly a million Palestinians.

Ahmed Ben Bella’s intelligence, ambition and love of his country marked him as a natural leader. Born on 25 December 1918 in the Algerian town of Marnia to Moroccan...

On 4 December 2017 Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed by the Iranian-backed Houthi armed group at the age of 75. Saleh led Yemen with all its complexities and changing...

Mohamed Mahdi Othman Akef was born the same year the Muslim Brotherhood was founded – 1928. He was born in Kafr Ewad al-Sinita, one of the villages on the...

Renowned Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish performs his iconic piece "There is on this land that which makes life worth living".

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, announced on Monday that it has chosen Yahya Al-Sinwar as its new leader in the Gaza Strip. Al-Sinwar replaces the former Palestinian Prime...

Shimon Peres, who passed away Wednesday aged 93 after suffering a stroke on 13 September, epitomised the disparity between Israel’s image in the West and the reality of its...

Born into a Jewish family in New York in 1930, Richard Falk grew up to become a distinguished academic, author and public speaker. He is now a professor emeritus...

Over the past few years, women of Arab origins have been appointed to important positions in European political life. In this report, we will mention the four most well-known...

Shortly before his visit to Jerusalem in 1977, then Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said he would go to “the ends of the earth” to obtain peace; as promised, he...

Palestinian Academic and Advocate: Edward Wadie Said During a lecture at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1997, Edward W. Said made the following statement about Islam as it is...

Yasser Arafat: Icon of the Palestinian struggle The cliché one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter may well have been written for Yasser Arafat, for during his lifetime and the...

‘The corrective movement’: Hafez Al-Assad, President of Syria Of the five members of the Ba’ath Party’s Military Committee who seized power in Syria in 1963, Hafez Al-Assad went the...

Dr Farid Ismail was born on June 25, 1957, in Egypt’s Al-Sharqia Governorate. He worked as an independent pharmacist and was a member of the People’s Assembly and the...

Before he became the most powerful person in the Ba’ath party, Saddam Hussein warned he would make a Stalinist state out of Iraq. True to his word he adopted...

In 1971 PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat said of the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish: “I can smell the fragrance of the homeland on you.” In this observation the leader...

King Hussein of Jordan is said to have survived at least seven military coups and 12 assassination attempts. In his 1962 autobiography, Uneasy Lies the Head, he wrote: “sometimes...

97 years after Nasser the great Arab nationalist was born he is still making waves in Egypt. On a warm evening in late July 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel...

“I consider my resignation an expression of protest against the current conditions of the judiciary, and I hope that a serious action is taken to reform it.” It was...

Essam Mohammed Hussein El Erian (1954) is an Egyptian physician and a political activist. He is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Council; and serves as vice chair...

Mohammed Badie Abdul-Majid Muhammad Sami was born in 1943. He joined the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) while in his early 20s. He studied veterinary medicine at Cairo University and graduated...

Mohamed Mahdi Othman Akef was born the same year the Muslim Brotherhood was founded – 1928. He was born in one of the villages of Mansoura City to the north...