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- Paris was rocked by disturbances last week. Masked protesters throwing stones clashed with police, who responded with tear gas and water cannon, in 4,000 demonstrations called by the biggest public sector trade union, the hard-line CGT. As the investment banker turned centrist reformer, President...
- Andre Azoulay, adviser to the Moroccan king, at the Bayt Dakira (House of Memory) Jewish museum, in Morocco’s Atlantic coastal city of Essaouira. (AFP) For 70 years, the Israeli-Palestinian problem has remained open, like a festering wound, prohibiting a lasting peace in the wide...
- The biggest strategic blunder of the US invasion of Iraq was not upsetting the regional balance of power but rather the dismantling of the Iraqi state. Haphazardly issued in a US directive only 60 days prior to the invasion, the process of De-Baathification led to the dismissal of an estim...
- On a hot afternoon in June 1981, an Israeli F-16A fighter aircraft flew 1,600 kilometers to destroy Iraq’s under construction Osirak nuclear reactor just south of Baghdad. The operation was daring and the audacity of the Israel Defense Forces in operating unilaterally, flying over two of its...
- Last week the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a climate change “code red.” Human activity is changing the climate in unprecedented and sometimes irreversible ways. The warning was unequivocal: A key global temperature limit has been broken, and humanity can expect a continue...
- Almost 40 years of conflict has left Afghanistan one of the poorest and most fragile countries in the world. (Reuters) There is something very hurried and sudden about the planned US withdrawal from Afghanistan, despite the 17-year war being America’s longest conflict overseas. P...
- An installation is pictured during the Dubai Design Week. (File photo/AFP) With 2018 revenues the highest in the company’s history, Christie’s, the world’s largest auction house, can be considered an authority in the international arts scene. Looking at the Gulf region and wider Arab wo...
- An Afghan girl works at a brick-making factory in Nangarhar province, January 6, 2015. (Reuters) The last fortnight has seen some of the most drastic action taken in regard to the lingering injustices and inequalities surrounding black people. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movemen...
- Eighty years ago, Ahmad Kamal Suroor began his first BBC broadcast with the words “this is London.” Few would anticipate that these words would lead to Arabic becoming the largest of the BBC’s non-English language services. Fewer still would realize that this pioneering group of Arab broa...
- Shamima Begum, now 19, expressed no regrets about fleeing her London life four years ago but said that two of her children had died and, pregnant with her third, she wanted to return. (Social media) In February 2015, three British schoolgirls, students of the Bethnal Green Academy, le...
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