Oussama Romdhani: Libya’s failed state meets climate change
On September 10, climate change met Libya’s failing state. The result was thousands of dead and missing in the eastern...
Martin Jay
Lina AbiRafeh: Morocco earthquake comes down harder on women
On 8 September 2023, Morocco was hit by a magnitude-6.8 earthquake — the most powerful earthquake the country has experienced...
Emily Milliken & Giorgio Cafiero: What Algeria wants in Niger
Niger’s July 26 military coup, which ousted President Mohamed Bazoum, has created a volatile situation. While France and the Economic Community...
Niger Coup Deepens Africa’s Instability
The military coup that has taken place in Niger completes a band of malleable instability that now stretches from the...
Lebanon bans Barbie over gay undertones
Authorities in Kuwait and Lebanon have banned the release of Barbie, the live-action film based on the popular Mattel doll. The...
Martin Jay: Biden’s smoke and mirrors with Algeria & Morocco
August is a month which found most government officials in Rabat on holiday away from the capital and its woes....
Lebanon: Palestinian camp Ain al-Hilweh killers fingered
The killers responsible for murder and mayhem in a Palestinian refugee camp in the south of Lebanon have been identified...
BRICS signs off new members in bid to counter US sanctions
Leaders of the BRICS bloc of leading developing nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - have agreed...
Faisal Al Yafai: Assad’s wait-and-see tactics will haunt him
Given the warm welcome Bashar Al Assad received at the Arab League just three months ago, one might have expected...
Kerry Boyd Anderson: Two years on after Afghanistan
Two years after the US and its allies withdrew from Afghanistan, partisan political views in Washington have hardened, while foreign...
Hazem Saghieh: the culture war in Lebanon
A cultural war, the likes of which the country has not seen since the mid-1970s, is raging in Lebanon. Youths...
What a drag. Gay bar stormed by fanatics in Beirut
A drag show in the Lebanese capital Beirut was cut short late on Wednesday by an angry crowd of conservative...
Jordan’s reform narrative smacks of hyper repression, say rights groups
“Jordan was never an oppressive country and will never be one”, said King Abdullah II of Jordan on August 15,...
Lebanese army blocks 700 Syrians crossing border
The Lebanese army turned away around 700 Syrians attempting to cross into the neighboring country illegally over the past week, the armed...
Haniyeh: Ending occupation is the only solution to Israel-Palestine conflict
Palestinians “will face the siege, closures and settlement with persistence and resistance,” the Head of Hamas’ Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh,...
