The arrest of blogger Azyz Amami and photographer Sabri Ben Mlouka for the possession and use of marijuana in accordance with Tunisia’s notorious Law 52, a legacy of former...

The daughter of Egypt’s ousted President, Mohammed Morsi, said on Monday that former defence minister, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and army leaders, before his ouster, offered her father political asylum...

Gunmen have attacked the UAE embassy in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, leading to the departure of the Emirati Ambassador and the Embassy staff, Libyan activists reported. According to Libyan sources...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called for Israel to make efforts on all levels to acquire at least observer status in the Organisation of African Unity. Al-Quds news...

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya, UNSMIL called on Monday for all Libyan parties to immediately cease all military actions and address differences through political means instead of...

Sixty-six years after the establishment of Israel (1948-2014), the Arab minority inside the Green Line are facing significant challenges, mainly the call by some Israelis – led by Foreign...

The following notes come from a very important conversation with General Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi, which were not allowed to appear in Egyptian newspapers that normally publish interviews with presidents...

The University of Haifa in Israel has announced that it will be giving Frederik Willem de Klerk, the last president of the apartheid-era in South Africa, an honorary PhD...

Legal experts considered the recent presidential decree to raise the president’s monthly salary from EGP 2000 ($280) to EGP 42,000 ($5,900) as a return to “tailored laws” since it...

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” This is what W C Fields might now be saying...

Two Palestinian fishermen were wounded on Monday night when Egyptian marine forces targeted their fishing boats while approaching Egyptian waters, Palestinian security sources said. Rassd news website quoted the...

Senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk is to leave the Gaza Strip for Cairo on Tuesday through the Rafah Crossing, an informed source told Turkish news agency Anadolu. Abu...

Egyptian authorities issued a travel ban to and from Libya starting from Tuesday until the security situation in Libya improves, a security official told Anadolu news agency. According to...

The supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie said in a speech before the court Sunday that “the real terrorists are those who killed worshippers and burned the...

British parliamentarian George Galloway said that although the Muslim Brotherhood committed mistakes, it should not be excluded from the political arena in Egypt. In an interview with the Austrian...

Member of the political bureau of Hamas movement Mahmoud Al-Zahar said that remarks by Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi regarding his movement constitute a testimony that Hamas is not a terrorist group....

On the 26th and 27th May, Egypt will go to the polls to vote in a controversial presidential election. There are only two candidates: former Field Marshall Abdel Fatah...

Palestinian-Egyptian choir singer Mahmoud Sameh recounts the difficulties of commemorating his people’s expulsion from Palestine under the current political climate in Egypt. The political situation for Palestinians in Egypt,...

Egyptian presidential candidate Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi knows that if he wants to restore Egypt’s responsibility on the Palestinian issue, he must not ignore Hamas and the Israeli-Egyptian siege on Gaza,...

The Jordanian government is negotiating with Israel to import its natural gas to substitute the Egyptian gas for the same price; Jordan Al-Ghad newspaper said on Monday quoting an...

Egyptian presenter Osama Kamal did not expect the reply from chief political commentator and journalist Peter Oborne, of the British Daily Telegraph, when he asked him about the Muslim...

Ali Benflis, an unsuccessful candidate in the last Algerian presidential elections, announced on Sunday his opposition to the amended draft constitution which the presidency presented, as well as the...

A Libyan paramilitary group led by former Major General Khalifa Haftar announced late on Sunday that it was responsible for carrying out the attack on the Libyan parliament in...

Egypt’s state-run television announced that an Egyptian court has sentenced 126 people to ten years in prison against the backdrop of the violence that occurred last August following the...

Egyptian presidential candidate, ex-army chief and military coup leader Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi said in a televised interview Sunday that Egypt is currently incapable of becoming an advanced democracy despite the...

Abdullah Assem, known in Egypt as “the young inventor” said in press statements Sunday that his decision not to return to Egypt is final. Abdullah Assem, 17, is a...

The Nidaa Tounes (Call for Tunisia) Party, the political wing of the Nidaa Tounis Movement, announced Sunday it will hold internal elections in June to elect the party’s leaders....

Judge Ahmed Sulaiman who served as the last Minister of Justice in the Morsi government said that he had sent a letter to Morsi before June 30 complaining of...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS At London University’s SOAS last Friday, the Middle East Monitor and the Jasmine Foundation had the honour of welcoming three MPs from post-revolutionary Tunisia, who brought with...

The European Union announced Saturday it will not dispatch observers to the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for May 26-27 due to the lack of guarantees that would protect their...

The Islamic Resistance movement Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar said the Palestinian consensus government will be presented before the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) to gain confidence. Al-Zahar pointed out in...

Let’s dismantle the myths and legends related to participating in the elections which seek to justify the military’s bloody path to power in Egypt. There seems to be two...