Al-Araby

Luckily for Lebanon’s farmers, resilience doesn’t seem to be in short supply. Forced to think outside the box, they are uniquely equipped to find innovative solutions to a seemingly endless list of national problems. Now, they are shifting from harvest…

Palestinians welcomed the victory of Luiz Inácio Da Silva (Lula) against Brazil’s incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro this weekend, with hopes that Lula’s success will “boost the global support for Palestinians”. For his part, Ahmad al-Deek from the Pal…

A female journalist was crushed to death by a vehicle carrying former prime minister Imran Khan in an accident in eastern Pakistan on Sunday as he led a convoy along with his supporters towards the capital, party officials and journalists said. Extreme…

Students clashed during a memorial ceremony for the victims of a deadly attack at a major Shia holy site in southern Iran, the country’s semi-official news outlet said Sunday. The Tasnim news agency reported that some groups attacked a gathering in a b…

The European Union signed an agreement with Egypt on Sunday for the first phase of an 80 million-euro border management programme, a statement from the EU delegation in Cairo said, at a time when Egyptian migration to Europe has been rising. The projec…

Two members of the Yemeni separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) forces were killed Saturday in clashes with Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the country’s southwest, the STC said. The fighters from the UAE-backed STC, which forms a major pillar of…

Tunisian president Kais Saied’s controversial new electoral laws exclude disabled candidates from standing for election, according to a Tunisian rights group. “For the first time since the Revolution, people with disabilities are not able to run for th…

Youth climate activist Greta Thunberg has made a surprise visit to London’s solidarity sit-in for writer and activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who is being imprisoned by Egypt. Alaa’s sister Sanaa Seif began her sit-in protest outside the UK’s Foreign Common…

A displaced woman was killed and her husband and children were injured after their home at a camp for displaced people in northern Syria was hit in a missile attack. The Kuwait Al-Rahma displacement camp in the countryside of Afrin was bombed in the ea…

Arab leaders are set to meet in the Algerian capital on Tuesday for their first summit since a string of normalisation deals with Israel which have divided the Middle East. The 22-member Arab League held its last summit in 2019, prior to both the coron…