The Tunisian Ennahda Party leader was taken from prison to a national security forces’ base in El-Aouina to be investigated by an anti-terrorism unit. Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia’s largest party, Ennahda, has decided [ More … ]
The Egyptian National Action Group and the Sunna Scholars Association have called for protests next Friday and announced support for boycotting French Products in protests against French President Macron’s humiliation of Muslims, Islam, and Prophet [ More … ]
Calls to boycott French products are growing in the Middle East and the Islamic world after France President Emmanuel Macron said his country “will not give up cartoons” depicting the Prophet Mohammad and ‘Islamists will [ More … ]
The US government has been urged to boycott next month’s G20 summit in Riyadh over the kingdom’s rights violations. Forty-five American lawmakers have urged the US government to boycott next month’s G20 summit in Riyadh [ More … ]
Egypt’s National Elections Authority said boycotting the Senate vote should result in prosecution Egypt’s election commission on Wednesday announced it would refer around 45 million citizens who did not vote in this month’s Senate elections to [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia has reportedly been putting pressure on local businesses not to trade with Turkey and its industries in a bid to boost an unofficial boycott. The detention of trucks carrying produce from Turkey has [ More … ]
Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Sunday defended the economic boycott of Israel as a freedom of speech movement that’s “pushing back against racist policies in Israel.” Last week, 398 House members overwhelmingly passed a resolution to [ More … ]
Qatari government says UAE has violated an international discrimination convention while Emirati minister says its another of Doha’s ‘lies’ The government of Qatar took the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations’ International Court of [ More … ]
In this bustling capital, the election billboards of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi are everywhere. They read: “Yalla Sissi”— “Go Sisi” in Arabic — urging him on for a second term. Accordingly, Egyptian voters will struggle to [ More … ]
Egypt’s chief prosecutor delivered a withering broadside against the news media on Wednesday, blaming the “forces of evil” for negative coverage and instructing his staff to take legal action against outlets deemed to be undermining [ More … ]
Despite al-Sisi’s effort to vanish any political competitor from his way in the upcoming elections, it seems that things will get tougher for him in the coming weeks 2018 presidential elections In fact, 2018 presidential elections [ More … ]
Egyptian presidential elections expected to be dominated by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi next month will be “neither free nor fair”, more than a dozen human rights groups said Tuesday. “The Egyptian government has trampled over even [ More … ]
After it ousted the military competitors from the political scene, al-Sisi military regime enters a new confrontation with the same politicians who supported al-Sisi’s military coup against Mohamed Morsi. Now the leaders of the National [ More … ]
When it comes to securing a second term in power, Egypt’s coup leader is leaving little to chance. Ahead of March elections, Egypt’s al-Sisi sidelined his potential rivals. Some were jailed or threatened with prosecution. [ More … ]
Over 40 Portuguese photographers, teachers of photography and photography students pledged on Saturday, which marked World Photography Day, not to accept professional invitations or financing from Israel, and to” refuse to collaborate with Israeli cultural [ More … ]
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