Only Iraq and Israel out of all Middle East countries, only Iraq from Arab counties, were invited to attend U.S. president’s recent summit on democracy. What does this say about democracy in the Middle East [ More … ]
The Egyptian popular blogger and YouTuber Abdullah El-Sherif, has released new leaks attributed to presidential advisors to Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi According to Arabi21, The audio leak released shows Farouk al-Qadi, an army officer of the [ More … ]
There are rising concerns about the health of King Salman bin Abdul Aziz of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 85, after he has remained 482 consecutive days in his palace in the desert city of [ More … ]
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has announced it sold $1 billion in one-year dollar-denominated Treasury bills with an average yield of 2.995%. The Central Bank of Egypt, on behalf of the Ministry of Finance, [ More … ]
An Egyptian court orders a provisional release of Patrick Zaki, an EIPR researcher and a post-graduate student at Italy’s Bologna University who has been in jail for 22 months for criticism of the Egyptian regime. [ More … ]
The US Congress’s Egypt Human Rights Caucus has called on the Biden administration to investigate reports about the Egyptian Air Force’s use of U.S.-supplied equipment to kill suspected smugglers The Congress’s Egypt Human Rights Caucus [ More … ]
The Egyptian Minister of Public Enterprise Sector says his ministry has established a company in cooperation with a sovereign body, with the aim of building 3,000 charging stations for electric vehicles. In a speech at [ More … ]
Turkish Prosecution have indicted 16 people suspected of spying for Israel, a Turkish daily newspaper reports. Istanbul’s Public Prosecutor on Friday indicted 16 people suspected of spying for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, according to Turkish [ More … ]
The former footballer’s comment that homosexuality is against humanity has sparked backlash in the West and solidarity in the East. Mohamed Aboutrika, the former Al-Ahly and Egyptian national team player and football analyst on the [ More … ]
A French human rights activist has written an analytical article about the recent leaks related to France’s Operation Sirli in Egypt. Albane de Rochebrune, a human rights defender and a communications consultant, on 1st. December [ More … ]
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