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Yemen Gov't Struggles to Keep Strategic Region of Marib

Yemen Gov't Struggles to Keep Strategic Region of Marib

Without Chains: Ghaida Rinawi Zoabi, Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset and a Member of the Left-Wing Meretz Party

Without Chains: Ghaida Rinawi Zoabi, Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset and a Member of the Left-Wing Meretz Party

Will the Vienna Talks Salvage the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal?

Will the Vienna Talks Salvage the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal?

Why were Amnesty International's Warnings Not Taken Seriously About Pegasus Spyware?

Why were Amnesty International's Warnings Not Taken Seriously About Pegasus Spyware?

What can stop Palestinians being evicted from Sheikh Jarrah?

What can stop Palestinians being evicted from Sheikh Jarrah?

US Carries Out Air Raids on Iran-Backed Militias in Syria, Iraq

US Carries Out Air Raids on Iran-Backed Militias in Syria, Iraq

UN Security Council holds emergency meeting on Jerusalem, considers statement

UN Security Council holds emergency meeting on Jerusalem, considers statement

Tunisia: What are the “Risks” after President Kais Saied's Decisions

Tunisia: What are the “Risks” after President Kais Saied's Decisions

The UAE-Saudi Arabia Dispute is "the End of a Honeymoon, Not the End of a Marriage"

Sudan Warns 20 million Will Suffer from Ethiopia's Dam Filling

Sudan Warns 20 million Will Suffer from Ethiopia's Dam Filling

Renaissance Dam: What Has Changed for Egypt and Sudan After the Second Filling?

Renaissance Dam: What Has Changed for Egypt and Sudan After the Second Filling?

Lebanon: What is the Aftermath of Hariri Apologizing for Forming the Government? | Talking Point

Lebanon: What is the Aftermath of Hariri Apologizing for Forming the Government? | Talking Point

Jerusalem: Dividing al-Aqsa

Jerusalem: Dividing al-Aqsa

Israeli Far-Right Leader Bennett Joins Anti-Netanyahu Coalition

Israeli Far-Right Leader Bennett Joins Anti-Netanyahu Coalition

Israel Releases Sheikh Jarrah Activists After Hours-Long Arrests

Israel Releases Sheikh Jarrah Activists After Hours-Long Arrests

Israel committing war crimes in Gaza, Palestinian FM tells UN

Israel committing war crimes in Gaza, Palestinian FM tells UN

Is this the End of Netanyahu's 12-year Stint as Israeli PM?

Is this the End of Netanyahu's 12-year Stint as Israeli PM?

Is Saudi Arabia Behind the "Jordan Sedition"? This is How King Abdullah Responded

Is a third intifada on the way? | Inside Story

Is a third intifada on the way? | Inside Story

How did fighting between Israelis and Palestinians get so bad?

How did fighting between Israelis and Palestinians get so bad?

Hajj Marked with Restricted Turnout Due to COVID Restrictions

Hajj Marked with Restricted Turnout Due to COVID Restrictions

Egyptian Foreign Minister Attacks Ethiopia for its Insistence on the Second Filling of the Renaissance Dam without Reaching an Agreement

Egyptian Foreign Minister Attacks Ethiopia for its Insistence on the Second Filling of the Renaissance Dam without Reaching an Agreement

Egypt: The Economic Outcome of Seven Years of Sisi's Rule

Egypt: The Economic Outcome of Seven Years of Sisi's Rule

Death or Murder ... What Happened with the Activist Banat in the Prisons of the Palestinian Authority?

Death or Murder ... What Happened with the Activist Banat in the Prisons of the Palestinian Authority?

Chinese-Iranian Relations: Do they Change the Rules of the Game in the Region?

Chinese-Iranian Relations: Do they Change the Rules of the Game in the Region?

Cairo is on the British Red List for Corona and Fears that the Tourism Sector will be Affected

Cairo is on the British Red List for Corona and Fears that the Tourism Sector will be Affected

Backed by Israeli police, Jewish Settlers Enter Al-Aqsa Compound

Backed by Israeli police, Jewish Settlers Enter Al-Aqsa Compound

Algeria - Morocco: In Which Direction are Relations Heading?

Algeria - Morocco: In Which Direction are Relations Heading?

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1 | Featured Documentary

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1 | Featured Documentary

A tense Ramadan for families in Jerusalem as clashes continue

A tense Ramadan for families in Jerusalem as clashes continue

A private conversation with the Arab thinker dr. Azmi Bishara

A private conversation with the Arab thinker dr. Azmi Bishara

9 children reported dead in Israeli air strikes on Gaza

9 children reported dead in Israeli air strikes on Gaza

"Without Chains", Elie Ferzli, Deputy Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament

"Raj'een" - Nai Barghouti

"Pegasus" Software... a Lethal Weapon for the Media's Freedom

‘Give us 10 minutes’: How Israel bombed a Gaza media tower

‘Give us 10 minutes’: How Israel bombed a Gaza media tower

‘Give us 10 minutes’: How Israel bombed a Gaza media tower

‘Give us 10 minutes’: How Israel bombed a Gaza media tower

"Pegasus" Software... a Lethal Weapon for the Media's Freedom

9 children reported dead in Israeli air strikes on Gaza

9 children reported dead in Israeli air strikes on Gaza

A tense Ramadan for families in Jerusalem as clashes continue

A tense Ramadan for families in Jerusalem as clashes continue

Algeria - Morocco: In Which Direction are Relations Heading?

Algeria - Morocco: In Which Direction are Relations Heading?

Backed by Israeli police, Jewish Settlers Enter Al-Aqsa Compound

Backed by Israeli police, Jewish Settlers Enter Al-Aqsa Compound

Cairo is on the British Red List for Corona and Fears that the Tourism Sector will be Affected

Cairo is on the British Red List for Corona and Fears that the Tourism Sector will be Affected

Chinese-Iranian Relations: Do they Change the Rules of the Game in the Region?

Chinese-Iranian Relations: Do they Change the Rules of the Game in the Region?

Death or Murder ... What Happened with the Activist Banat in the Prisons of the Palestinian Authority?

Death or Murder ... What Happened with the Activist Banat in the Prisons of the Palestinian Authority?

Hajj Marked with Restricted Turnout Due to COVID Restrictions

Hajj Marked with Restricted Turnout Due to COVID Restrictions

How did fighting between Israelis and Palestinians get so bad?

How did fighting between Israelis and Palestinians get so bad?

Is a third intifada on the way? | Inside Story

Is a third intifada on the way? | Inside Story

Is this the End of Netanyahu's 12-year Stint as Israeli PM?

Is this the End of Netanyahu's 12-year Stint as Israeli PM?

Israel Releases Sheikh Jarrah Activists After Hours-Long Arrests

Israel Releases Sheikh Jarrah Activists After Hours-Long Arrests

Israeli Far-Right Leader Bennett Joins Anti-Netanyahu Coalition

Israeli Far-Right Leader Bennett Joins Anti-Netanyahu Coalition

Lebanon: What is the Aftermath of Hariri Apologizing for Forming the Government? | Talking Point

Lebanon: What is the Aftermath of Hariri Apologizing for Forming the Government? | Talking Point

Renaissance Dam: What Has Changed for Egypt and Sudan After the Second Filling?

Renaissance Dam: What Has Changed for Egypt and Sudan After the Second Filling?

Sudan Warns 20 million Will Suffer from Ethiopia's Dam Filling

Sudan Warns 20 million Will Suffer from Ethiopia's Dam Filling

The UAE-Saudi Arabia Dispute is "the End of a Honeymoon, Not the End of a Marriage"

Tunisia: What are the “Risks” after President Kais Saied's Decisions

Tunisia: What are the “Risks” after President Kais Saied's Decisions

UN Security Council holds emergency meeting on Jerusalem, considers statement

UN Security Council holds emergency meeting on Jerusalem, considers statement

US Carries Out Air Raids on Iran-Backed Militias in Syria, Iraq

US Carries Out Air Raids on Iran-Backed Militias in Syria, Iraq

What can stop Palestinians being evicted from Sheikh Jarrah?

What can stop Palestinians being evicted from Sheikh Jarrah?

Why were Amnesty International's Warnings Not Taken Seriously About Pegasus Spyware?

Why were Amnesty International's Warnings Not Taken Seriously About Pegasus Spyware?

Will the Vienna Talks Salvage the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal?

Will the Vienna Talks Salvage the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal?

Yemen Gov't Struggles to Keep Strategic Region of Marib

Yemen Gov't Struggles to Keep Strategic Region of Marib

"Without Chains", Elie Ferzli, Deputy Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament

A private conversation with the Arab thinker dr. Azmi Bishara

A private conversation with the Arab thinker dr. Azmi Bishara

Egyptian Foreign Minister Attacks Ethiopia for its Insistence on the Second Filling of the Renaissance Dam without Reaching an Agreement

Egyptian Foreign Minister Attacks Ethiopia for its Insistence on the Second Filling of the Renaissance Dam without Reaching an Agreement

Is Saudi Arabia Behind the "Jordan Sedition"? This is How King Abdullah Responded

Israel committing war crimes in Gaza, Palestinian FM tells UN

Israel committing war crimes in Gaza, Palestinian FM tells UN

Jerusalem: Dividing al-Aqsa

Jerusalem: Dividing al-Aqsa

Without Chains: Ghaida Rinawi Zoabi, Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset and a Member of the Left-Wing Meretz Party

Without Chains: Ghaida Rinawi Zoabi, Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset and a Member of the Left-Wing Meretz Party

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1 | Featured Documentary

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1 | Featured Documentary

Egypt: The Economic Outcome of Seven Years of Sisi's Rule

Egypt: The Economic Outcome of Seven Years of Sisi's Rule

"Raj'een" - Nai Barghouti

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Wars to Subdue Hamas in Gaza

The target is forcing Hamas to accept what is related to an international plan that will change the reality of the Strip.

Editors picks EN

Tunisia: Fighting Covid-19 with Sarcasm and Conspiracy Theories

The majority of Tunisia and the Arab world do not take the warnings of the Covid-19 pandemic seriously. These people mock the awareness and rationalization campaigns carried out by the media.

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The US is yet to Toughen its Stance on Human Rights in Egypt

The US is holding back part of its $1.3 billion military aid package to Egypt in a bid to compel the Sisi government into railing in its deteriorating human rights record.

Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Wars to Subdue Hamas in Gaza

Wars to Subdue Hamas in Gaza

What Comes After the War on Gaza?

What Comes After the War on Gaza?

Palestinians have many questions to answer in the aftermath of the last war on Gaza.

Palestinians Away from Politics

Palestinians Away from Politics

The conditions of the Palestinians cause concern and raise fears wherever they are.

A New Palestine Drawn by New Media in the Events of Sheikh Jarrah

A New Palestine Drawn by New Media in the Events of Sheikh Jarrah

Israel Military Policy Has Caused a Blow to Palestinian-Israeli Coexistence

Israel Military Policy Has Caused a Blow to Palestinian-Israeli Coexistence

A blow has been struck to Palestinian-Israeli coexistence, the fragility of which was now …

Gaza Onslaughts Highlights an Emerging Paradigm Shift

Gaza Onslaughts Highlights an Emerging Paradigm Shift

During eleven days, Israel turned the besieged Gaza Strip into “hell on earth”: Dozens …

The Man Who Sold His Skin: A Feminine Punch with a Silk Glove

The Man Who Sold His Skin: A …

The Film showed another perspective of the Syrian refuge story in Europe.

Bustani’s Arabic Encyclopaedia Lacked Teamwork

Bustani’s Arabic Encyclopaedia Lacked Teamwork

Theatre and Corona

Theatre and Corona

Nahla Othman: Commercializing Emotion As a News Commodity

Nahla Othman: Commercializing Emotion As a News Commodity

Our tragedies have been turned into a news commodity without offering solutions.

Battle for the Soul of Islam

Battle for the Soul of Islam

The Platonic Love Does Not Exist

The Platonic Love Does Not Exist

The Samaritans: The World’s Oldest and Smallest Sect

The Samaritans: The World’s Oldest and Smallest Sect

Samaritans consider themselves Palestinian citizens and they had a seat in the Palestinian Legislative Council during the era of the late President Yasser Arafat, while the …

Yom Kippur – The Holiest Day for the Jews

Yom Kippur – The Holiest Day for the Jews

Zaidiyyah: The Shia Sect Closest to the Sunnis

Zaidiyyah: The Shia Sect Closest to the Sunnis

The Feminine Face of Al-Assad’s Dictatorship

The Feminine Face of Al-Assad’s Dictatorship

The Syrian Presidency announced in August 2018 that Asma had breast cancer, after which she was treated for an early stage of a malignant tumour, according to official Syrian …

Olfa Hamdi: A Meteoric Take Off into Tunisian Politics

Olfa Hamdi: A Meteoric Take Off into Tunisian Politics

Prince with Potential: Jordan’s Heir Apparent Raising His Profile

Middle East & North Africa General Knowledge Quiz

Middle East & North Africa General Knowledge Quiz

What is your level of knowledge on level on the Middle East and North Africa? Take Fanack's challenging general knowledge quiz test to find out and have fun!

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