Arab and Islamic communities are scattered across various continents around the world. Statistics have shown that Arab communities hold weight in Europe and America, especially the Palestinian communities, which...

On 30 March, 1976, forty-five years ago today, Israeli occupation forces killed six Palestinians as they were protesting against the government's expropriation of Palestinian land. The events on that...

Brazil is facing the collapse of its health service under the second-highest number of coronavirus infections in the world and the government is in the midst of a domestic...

The book launch will start at 1700 GMT and will be broadcasted on the Middle East Monitor channels.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is counting upon the diplomatic route against the International Criminal Court's decision to investigate war crimes alleged to have been committed by his country....

A Lebanese Brazilian Muslim woman who won the first series of Bake Off Brasil in 2015 is now a well-known figure all over the country. Samira Ghannoum won the...

The migration of Arabs to Brazil from the middle of the 19th century has produced a rich cultural legacy in the country: the cuisine. Arab cuisine is widespread in...

Once again, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has made his country seem weak in front of Israel by seeking help from the occupation state to tackle a national crisis, on...

Ali Mazloum is one of millions of migrants whose story illustrates the determination and success of so many Lebanese refugees. When his father Mohammed arrived in Brazil in 1950,...

A friend once told me that I will never be a stranger in Brazil, because there are people from everywhere living there. Walk along any Brazilian street, and you...

On 29 August 1969, TWA Flight 840 took off from Los Angeles for Tel Aviv via Rome. There were 116 passengers on board, including a young Palestinian woman called Laila Khaled

A week of solidarity events was launched in Brazil yesterday to coincide with the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. An hour-long webinar held by five activists...

Shortly before this year's International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 164 countries voted in favour for the Palestinians' right to self-determination at a session of the UN...

Rarely in the history of mankind does something positive come out of the nerve centre of financial capital and speculative parasites. The BRICS idea may be a rare exception...

A Lebanese-Brazilian man was arrested in Sao Paolo on Monday on drug trafficking charges, the New Arab reports. Assad Khalil Kiwan was arrested by Brazilian Federal Police as part of...

Following the ongoing saga of the US presidential election over the past few weeks, it occurred to me that I am 30 years old and have never voted in...

It seems that what Brazil's current Minister of Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araújo said at the Brazilian Senate in February 2020: "There is unfortunately still vast anti-Israel bias in bodies...

Transferring the Brazilian embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is back on the table. This time, however, it's thanks to Brazilian president's son Eduardo Bolsonaro in an interview with...

In Brazil today you can see Arabic dishes alongside local fare on the menu; you might hear occasional Arabic names and words; and someone may even greet you with...

An exciting project is unfolding between children in Brazil and the Gaza Strip, Palestine, who are exchanging letters to share their hopes and dreams. Conceived by award-winning journalist Angela...

Although it is quite normal in many places today, Fatima Hussein is the first Palestinian Muslim woman to be nominated as a candidate in a Brazilian municipal council election....

In her book and documentary film My land lives in me, Bruna Kadletz weaves a deeply personal journey with stories from refugee camps in Lebanon and Palestine. She believes...

It seems that Israel is not satisfied with driving 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948, and another 400,000 in 1967; nor with its many massacres of...

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was created by the Security Council in March 1978 to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and restore international peace and security....

Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi has called on Latin American countries to ban the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah during a meeting with ambassadors from the region yesterday. "Terrorism affects...

Brazil's large Lebanese community has expressed its solidarity with the people of Beirut following this week's massive explosion in the city. The flag of Lebanon dominated buildings in one...

Since Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power, Israel and Brazil have since strengthened bilateral ties

"This adventure nearly cost us lives. One of our colleagues had a heart attack in Cairo"

To read the first part of this interview please click here. With the rise of the extreme right-wing under Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, former ambassador and minister Celso Amorim is...

This is an important book with an ambitious theme: the blockade of Gaza and the Egyptian government’s significant role in perpetuating it.

Interview with Celso Amorim, Brazil’s former minister of foreign relations

More than 320 scholars, former presidents and legislators from Latin America joined forces to condemn Israel's planned annexation of parts of the occupied Palestinian territories. In a joint statement,...