Sisi has made life in Egypt hellish: Column
The hopes of a decade ago are long gone, shattered by the former army chief who was backed by western powers, says Dr. Darrag[i], a former Egyptian minister. In 2011, I, like most Egyptians at [ More … ]
The hopes of a decade ago are long gone, shattered by the former army chief who was backed by western powers, says Dr. Darrag[i], a former Egyptian minister. In 2011, I, like most Egyptians at [ More … ]
President Joe Biden has said the United States will not lift sanctions on Iran before the country returns to its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, the latest impasse in an ongoing standoff between the [ More … ]
UN experts have called on the Egyptian authorities to remove Ramy Shaath and Zyad El-Elaimy from their terror list and stop systematically misusing counter-terror powers. Shaath and El-Elaimy were arrested in June 2019 and their [ More … ]
After more than 1,000 days in detention where she endured torture and hunger strikes, Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul released Wednesday 10th of February, 2021. A Saudi court sentenced Hathloul to close to six [ More … ]
A UN-led Libya forum today selected an interim government via a vote, choosing Mohammed Al-Menfi as presidency council head and Abdulhamid Dabaiba as prime minister, Reuters reported. Their list won with 39 votes versus 34 for their [ More … ]
Many experts and commentators have written in recent months, with the benefit of hindsight, about the errors, shortcomings, and near total failures of the unprecedented revolutions across the Middle East and North Africa that erupted [ More … ]
US secretary of state decries killing of Jamal Khashoggi as ‘abhorrent’, and says administration is reviewing blacklisting of Yemen’s Houthis US Secretary of State Antony Blinken decried the “abhorrent” murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and suggested [ More … ]
Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has criticised what he considered to be a “fight for power” in the country between the president and the parliament, warning that this would negatively affect the country’s stability. In [ More … ]
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