On May 23, Labor Unions’ elections started in Egypt after 12 years of its suspension amid accusations that the Egyptian government is excluding independent labor organizations’ leaders from the electoral race in a bid to have the [ More … ]
Four main Libyan political leaders attended a peace conference in Paris on Tuesday and agreed to hold elections in December Libyan rival factions agreed on Tuesday to hold elections on 10 December. The agreement was [ More … ]
Over the past few years, the term “enforced disappearance” has emerged on the surface of volatile and accelerating political events. The Egyptians were not familiar with such violation which deprives a person from law protection, [ More … ]
Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes on positions of Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The raids targeted three positions of Islamic Jihad group and a position of Hamas in central and southern Gaza [ More … ]
Israeli naval forces have intercepted a boat that set out from the Port of Gaza on Tuesday in hopes of breaking Israel’s decade-long siege of the Gaza Strip. Adham Abu Silmiyya, a spokesman for Gaza’s [ More … ]
Lebanon was plunged into crisis in November when Hariri resigned as prime minister while in Saudi Arabia, saying he feared assassination and criticizing the Saudis’ regional rival Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. Lebanese officials [ More … ]
On his recent high-profile tour of the United States, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, met with executives from Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Disney, Warner Bros. and Lockheed Martin, among others, journeying from Wall [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* Turkey and Saudi Arabia are the two most important countries of the Sunni Muslim world. Regional and global developments bind these two countries’ fates together. The developments in one country inevitably impact [ More … ]
Erdogan on Saturday said Ankara and Moscow reached an agreement to reduce the price of the natural gas imported from Russia by 10.25 percent after long negotiations. Speaking at a rally of the ruling Justice [ More … ]
Dr. Ahmed Zikrallah* Despite the economic measures taken by the Egyptian government to support the domestic and foreign investment climate – most notably the issuance of new laws to regulate investment, companies, capital market, and [ More … ]
Since 5 June last year, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt have cut all relations with Qatar Qatar has ordered shops to remove goods originating from a group of Saudi Arabian-led countries that a year [ More … ]
While the recent round of negotiations on Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam ended with a new document aimed at entrenching cooperation between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia, it did not resolve the key differences over the water filling [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities arrested the parents of a former university student, Anas Al-Mahdi, who was killed by the police in 2015. “My parents have been arrested by the Egyptian police,” Al-Mahdi’s sister, Hind, wrote on [ More … ]
For the second time in May, stolen Egyptian artifacts were seized in Europe, particularly in Naples, Italy, according to an official statement by the Ministry of Antiquities. It was revealed that a collection of parcels [ More … ]
A persistent narrative about Saudi Arabia describes the country as in perpetual struggle between the forces of modernity and the forces of traditionalism. This paper contributes to the on-going evaluation of this paradigm and its [ More … ]
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