Middle East

The year 2022 saw the energy topic return intensely to the attention of media, political leaders and public opinion after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February. Russia's war has...

President Joe Biden administration's response to a question by judge John Bates on whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman – known as MBS – should be treated as a head...

Since the inauguration of Ebrahim Raisi as president of the Islamic Republic, Central Asia has been one of Iran's foreign policy priorities. In the era of debates about Russia's...

The Palestinian Authority is reluctant to move away from the narrative which the international community constructed for Palestinians through the humanitarian paradigm which serves Israeli interests first and foremost. As Israeli state...

Hours after Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he has been able to put together a coalition government, the most far-right in the history of Israel, just a...

A few days before the formation of his sixth government, Benjamin Netanyahu has defined his ceilings for the solution to the Palestinian issue: self-rule for the Palestinians and security...

In a recent interview with Al-Arabiya.net, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas gave further proof of his fluctuating thought patterns and lack of credibility when it comes to Palestinian political...

In the next few days, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may announce his new coalition government. It is expected to be the most extreme government in Israeli history, after...

There is, by any standard, a terrifying phenomenon to which nobody is paying much attention; not even the media is making us aware of the potentially awful consequences. This...

Israel's war on Palestine is not confined to the battlefield. It is also waged in the media, nowhere more prominently than in the New York Times. Long regarded within...

According to Gianni Infantino, the President of FIFA, football's world governing body, the 2022 World Cup in Qatar was "an incredible success on all fronts." The first such tournament...

Just when Israel, and even some Palestinians, have started to talk about the Lions' Den phenomenon in the past tense, a large number of fighters belonging to the newly-formed...

Despite facing an unprecedented scale of criticism and calls for boycotts, months before a ball had been kicked, the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar has been a success....

The 2022 World Cup has been an occasion of many historic firsts. It began as the first tournament to be hosted in an Arab nation, the first to be held...

Despite the continuous security coordination between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Israeli occupation, the PA has toned down its security campaigns against Palestinians who fight the Israeli occupation...

The Times of Israel ran a lengthy article this week pinpointing the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese's criticisms of Israel, notably her use of the term "Jewish...

When social media solidified itself into the collective consciousness of technology users in the first decade of this century, it was increasingly looking like a revolutionary tool and saviour...

After the 2014 Daesh genocide which left them reeling from the effects of mass abduction and rape, Yazidi refugee girls are rebuilding their lives with the help of boxing,...

The Arab-China summit in Saudi Arabia at the weekend ended with the Riyadh Declaration. It has 24 articles, making it a strategic document for cooperation and development between the...

The Moroccan national team have made history as the first Arab or African football team to reach the semi-final of the FIFA World Cup. On the way Morocco has...

As the year end approaches, it's become clear that Israeli arms manufactures have concluded more unprecedented deals which mean that three of them are responsible for two per cent...

Rhetoric about alleged anti-Israel bias at the UN, despite how unfounded the allegations are, will never cease to reverberate. The US recently reignited its disapproval of the possibility of...

Football is not known as the beautiful game for nothing. It knows no racial or religious boundaries; is as beautiful to watch as it is to play; and its...

The Israeli occupation state makes every effort to disrupt and break up the social fabric of Palestinian communities, leading to domestic disorder. Sundry procedures have been implemented curbing the...

On 14 February, 1945, while US President Franklin D Roosevelt was returning from the Yalta Conference where he met Britain's Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin of the USSR, King...

The latest General Election in Israel was held on 1 November. The election campaign saw hatred and hostility between politicians come to the surface across the political spectrum. The...

The past week has witnessed remarkable developments on the Yemeni scene, the most prominent of which was the signing of a surprising agreement for military and security cooperation and...

The 25-year-old Syrian man, Baraa Habab, was able to discover a critical loophole in the official website of the insurance company of most Egyptian banks, such as Banque Misr,...

The next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the United Nations General Assembly on 15 May, 2023. The decision by the world's largest democratic institution is significant, if...

All Israeli settlements violate Article 49, paragraph six, of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. They are, therefore, considered to be war crimes, according to Article 84, paragraph four...

The Human Rights Committee of the Brazilian Parliament devoted a public hearing session on Wednesday evening to the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. For the first...

Saudi Arabia and Iran are two regional powers in the Arab East or, in the Frankish expression, in the Middle East. The means of power for both components are...