Egyptian football star Mohammed Salah posted a moving tribute to Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, the day of the late monarch’s state funeral and burial. The Liverpool forward tweeted: “The people of Great Britain and the world pay tribute and bid a final…
US signs historic $10 billion aid package to Jordan
Jordan and the US signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Friday containing the largest aid package to the Hashemite Kingdom in its history. The US pledged over US$10 billion in foreign aid to Jordan, to be disbursed over the next seven years. This is …
Adnan Syed: Conviction overturned in ‘Serial’ podcast case
Adnan Syed, whose murder trial gleaned international attention as part of the hit-podcast series “Serial”, walked out of prison on Monday – after 23 years fighting his conviction on charges of murdering his ex-girlfriend. The 41-year-old was found guil…
Why Palestinians will not be mourning the Queen’s death
Whilst it seems the world is at a prolonged standstill mourning the death of Britain’s longest reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, her death serves as a harrowing reminder to Palestinians of the unspoken barbarity they experienced at the hands of the…
The rebuilding of Egypt-Qatar relations
On 13 September, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi paid a two-day visit to Qatar. This was Sisi’s first trip to Doha since Egypt and Qatar reconciled through the al-Ula summit of January 2021. This visit was important to Cairo and Doha’s improvin…
A mammoth Quranic manuscript at Egypt’s national library
Cairo, February 2019, a few weeks before the beginning of the pandemic. I am at the National Library of Egypt (Dār al-Kutub al-miṣriyya), one of the world’s largest libraries, with thousands of ancient manuscripts and documents. The library is an ancie…
Palestinians protest PA’s arrest in Nablus, one killed
One Palestinian was killed on Tuesday during clashes between Palestinian Authority security forces and protesters in Nablus, north of the occupied West Bank, as protests have been ongoing since late night Monday. The victim was identified as Firas Yais…
Tunisia’s Ennahda slam Ghannouchi interrogation as ‘torture’
Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement has accused the country’s counter-terrorism prosecutor of torture and abuse after the party leader was detained for hours earlier this week. Rached Ghannouchi was kept in custody for interrogation for more than 14 hours, acco…
Starlink will seek exemptions from Iranian sanctions: Musk
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Monday that his company will apply for an exemption from US sanctions against Iran in a bid to offer its satellite internet service, called Starlink, to the country. “Starlink will apply for an exemption from sanctions agai…
Israeli PM vows to begin production in contested gas field
Israel’s prime minister on Monday vowed to begin production at a contested Mediterranean natural gas field “as soon as it is possible,” threatening to raise tensions with Lebanon and Hezbollah. Yair Lapid’s announcement came at a sensitive time in long…