Reports

The threat of a Brazilian dictatorship legitimised by the ballot – with hordes of armed, ferocious zealots imposing their reactionary values, policies and codes of behaviour – persuaded democratic...

Islam Ahmad Khamis is a young Egyptian in his thirties. For seven years, his mother waited for him to return home after he was arrested one day in the...

Illegal labour supply companies — employment agencies — in Egypt have reappeared, this time operating through companies that are wholly or partially owned by the government. Some of these...

Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) was one of the most important Palestinian and Arab poets who contributed greatly to the development and progress of Arabic poetry. He was known as one...

How Egypt lost a third of its athletes in ten years

This work received the 2021 Ricardo Boechat Best Article Award

The Egyptian Medical Syndicate revealed the resignation of 11,536 doctors from working in the government sector from the beginning of 2019 until last March 2020, which is considered a continuation of...

Land Day is one of the most prominent days of the struggle of the Palestinians who were able to stay on their land in 1948; a milestone in Palestinian...

In honour of Palestinian women, these are examples of determined Palestinian women who overcome barriers to leave their legacy on Palestinian history.

During the International Petroleum Technology Conference "Aegis 2022" last Monday, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi invited CNN anchor John Defterios to moderate a dialogue session at the conference and witness...

Siddiq Shehab arrived in the Gulf from his native Mangalore in South India in 1982, carrying an almost empty suitcase. Siddiq left everything behind and travelled to the Gulf...

Before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, 15-year-old Nuha had to transfer to the Muketefa High School four kilometres away from her home in Um Al-Quttain, in the Mafraq...

On 9 March last year, the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior banned prison visits under the pretext of curbing the spread of Covid-19. Three months into the ban, 69-year-old...

This paper explores the current state of affairs and potentially effective ways of bringing justice for Palestinians.

This report is part of the "Hajj (Pilgrimage) to Washington" project published by Sasapost. It covers the Middle East lobbies in the US between 2010 and 2020. Most of the...

Egypt's journey through Washington's lobbies during the decade of the Arab Spring

The history of the Emirati lobby in Washington throughout the decade of the Arab Spring

For Abdul Nasir Saeed, bullets replaced the traditional cannon announcing the time to break the fast (Iftar) on 17 Ramadan last year. Now, whenever he sees Palestinian Security Forces...

I suffer a lot in my efforts to obtain water. We bear the costs in full because if we didn't, we would never get water. I can no longer...

In recent years, Cuba has been forced to diversify its sources of financing to guarantee its collaboration and the survival of the Cuban health system itself, one of the great social gains of the Revolution.

This paper is divided into a methodological and theoretical framework to explain the prospective method used and some ideas about how to understand terrorism.

The reconfiguration of Eurasia is currently reflected in projects such as the Eurasian Economic Union, led by Russia, or the Chinese megaproject the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Introduction On 23 November 2019, EuroPal Forum and Middle East Monitor co-hosted a conference at the Holiday Inn Bloomsbury in London on the relations between Europe and Palestine. A...

In 2016 UK investments in Egypt topped $30 billion. Instead of using their influence to force Egypt to behave, the UK has awarded Sisi with $500,000 of investment for every Egyptian locked up for pro-democracy protests.

A largely neglected instrument of legal Israeli repression used against the Palestinian people is that of administrative detention. Thousands of men, as well as women and children, are held...

By the end of August 2017, 112,450 Eritreans were registered as refugees and asylum seekers in Sudan

For more than two decades, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been at the forefront of the fight against all forms of what is usually referred to as political...

This month marks four years since a delegation of prominent British lawyers published a report on the treatment of Palestinian children under Israeli military law. The Foreign Office funded...

Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations in Beirut has issued the Executive Summary of The Palestinian Strategic Report (PSR) 2014–2015 and the Expected Trends for 2016–2017. The PSR is...

In November 2015, the Israeli government outlawed the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in the country, using British Mandate-era "Emergency Regulations" to do so. Following this decision, a...

On Thursday December 10th 2015, one of my friends responsible for human rights situation inside Egypt sent me an alarming message describing the violations occurred in the Egyptian infamous...

The ethnic origins of those living in Jordan are many and contrasting. The current ruling royal family are “Hashemite” descendants of the Sharifs of Makkah and the Hijaz, while...