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Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday said he does not want to “escalate” things in the diplomatic row with Saudi Arabia but stressed that Lebanon should reject “submission and humiliation.” “Saudi Arabia stirred the latest crisis with Lebanon and we want things to calm down,” Nasrallah said in a …

The West still faces the threat of large-scale terror attacks by radical Islamist groups, but this time using bio-terrorism, Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair has warned. He made the comments in a speech marking two decades since the 9/11 terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the US. …

By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD     Before I say anything at all I have to highlight that this movie, Mousa (2021), is to be commended just for the fact that it’s an Egyptian (and Arabic SF) production, something almost unheard of and inexcusably neglected nowadays in the world of …

Former US President Donald Trump’s daughter, Tiffany, has announced her engagement to her Lebanese partner Michael Boulos this week. The engagement pictures were taken on Tuesday at the White House, a few hours before her father left the office. Tiffany took to social media to express her excitement. “It has been …

Hedy Habra, The Taste of the Earth  (Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2019). By Layla Azmi Goushey   In June 2020, I had the good fortune to attend a virtual poetry reading where Hedy Habra, author of the recently-published poetry collection, The Taste of the Earth, read selections from her work. …

The president has been mixing money and politics since his early days in New York. By Andrea Bernstein*- Appeared first on The Atlantic |   On a debate stage during the 2016 Republican primary, Donald Trump explained why he’d given money to Democratic politicians: “I give to many people,” he …

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, has reached a plea bargain in a fraud case over allegedly misusing state funds to order catered meals, Israel Radio said on Wednesday. Under the agreement, she will pay the state 45,000 shekels ($12,400) in reimbursement and a 10,000-shekel fine while admitting a lesser …

After Bashar al-Assad attacked his own citizens with chemical weapons, President Trump sought to assassinate the Syrian president. “Let’s fucking kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the fucking lot of them,” the president reportedly told Defense Secretary Jim Mattis last year, according to an excerpt from reporter Bob Woodward’s …

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has condemned some Indian media spreading fake news about Abu Dhabi Crown Prince. “This (fake news), is an insult to all Indians,” the chief minister wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday. Vijayan referred to the Gulf News report exposing the political agenda of some …

By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD — Another season of maniacal television is over and done with the passing of another Egyptian Ramadan. But only just. The episodes had to extend into the Eid to finish themselves off. And you had to wait a day or two afterwards to be able to …

  By Sayde Tawk Political turmoil is usually the major topic covered by regional and world media outlets about the Middle East. However, between the lines of such reporting you will find some brighter aspects of a region where culture, history, tradition, art, hope, solidarity and, most important, a lively …

By Sharmine Narwani* for RT– There is media confusion about what is going on in Yemen and the broader Middle East. Pundits are pointing out that the US is looking schizophrenic with policies that back opposite sides of the fight against al-Qaeda-style extremism in Iraq and in Yemen. But it …

THE LEVANT – By Hasan S. Özertem and Habibe Özdal – Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the first publicly held presidential elections in the first round, albeit with a narrow margin of 1.7 per cent. In the aftermath of the elections, Erdogan and the AK Party have chosen to delay the …

THE LEVANT – Pressure on Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki to step aside had become unbearable. Sunnis, Kurds, fellow Shias, regional power broker Iran and the United States all wanted him out. Maliki calculated he may have one more chance to hold onto power after eight years in office, even though …

THE LEVANT – A political showdown loomed in Baghdad as Nuri al-Maliki appeared determined Tuesday not to go down without a fight after his replacement as prime minister was internationally acclaimed. Washington urged his successor, Haidar al-Abadi, to rapidly form a broad-based government able to unite Iraqis in the fight …