January 6, 2021 |
Omar Ahmed Kahlil Gibran is regarded as the third-best-selling poet of all time after Lao Tzu and William Shakespeare, largely because of his book The Prophet. First published in 1923 it...
November 14, 2020 |
Omar Ahmed According to most accounts, Taha Hussein, one of Egypt's most esteemed writers and intellectuals and a giant in modern Arabic literature, was born on 14 November, 1889, in the...
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July 28, 2020 |
Jamil Sherif I first came across Zubair Pasha while researching the life of AbdulRasul Kashmiri, a devoted supporter of Ottoman causes, born in Srinagar as his name implies, who spent the...
On 19 May, 1935, Thomas Edward Lawrence passed away following a week of remaining in a coma caused by a motorcycle crash in Dorset, England. The British Arabist, linguist,...
May 11, 2020 |
Lauren Lewis Iraq's last princess dies aged 100. Princess Badiya bint Ali was born in Damascus in 1920. Her father King Ali bin Al-Hussein briefly ruled the Hejaz kingdom in western Arabia and held the title of Grand Sharif of Makkah
May 4, 2020 |
Hassina Mechaï Algerian singer Idir died in Paris on Saturday night at the age of 70. He was a leading figure of Algerian music and with him the memory of Algerian...
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On 4 May last year, an Emirati woman died in Abu Dhabi's Tawam Hospital. Her name was Alia Abdulnoor. She died chained to a bed in a windowless room...
April 30, 2020 |
Omar Ahmed Nizar Qabbani is arguably the most popular and widely read poet in the Arab world, renowned particularly for his poems on themes such as religion, love and femininity, which...
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Omar Ahmed Sheikh Mahmud Shaltut was a renowned Muslim scholar, reformer and rector of the esteemed Al-Azhar University in Cairo who was notable for seeking to bridge the gap in the...
July 14, 2019 |
Hannah Szeto Palestinian activist and novelist was murdered in Beirut by a bomb planted in his car by Israel's Mossad spy agency 47 years ago this week; on 8 July 1972...
June 18, 2019 |
Amelia Smith It was at a retrial for colluding with Hamas yesterday that the Brotherhood leader collapsed in his sound proof box and was transferred to hospital
'Either Algeria remains Algeria of the French, or becomes Algeria of the Muslims,' says voice of forgotten youth, dead at 88
April 16, 2019 |
Rebecca Stead Here are the ten new Knesset members who will be fighting for Palestinian citizens of Israel in the upcoming parliament.
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...
January 19, 2019 |
Dr Essam Yousef 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...
October 23, 2018 |
Nasim Ahmed 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
May 14, 2018 |
Jehan Alfarra 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.
Twenty-three-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer that was preparing to demolish a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip in 2003. Corrie has since become...
December 25, 2017 |
Yasmina Allouche 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...
December 5, 2017 |
Khalil Dewan 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...
September 28, 2016 |
Ben White 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...
July 14, 2016 |
Jehan Alfarra 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...
October 6, 2015 |
Amelia Smith 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...
September 25, 2015 |
Amelia Smith Said proposed peace by coexistence, self-determination and equality between Palestinians and Israelis and believed “real peace” would come with a binational Israeli-Palestinian state.
August 23, 2015 |
Amelia Smith Yasser Arafat: Icon of the Palestinian struggle
June 10, 2015 |
Amelia Smith '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...
April 27, 2015 |
Amelia Smith On 30 December 2006 former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was executed