1-Joseph’s Childhood and Domestic Life
Joseph Aoun was born on January 10, 1964 in the Sin el-Fil suburb east of Beirut in the Matn district. Joseph was into a Maronite family, his mother lived to see her son become the Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, but his father passed away before ...
1 - Omani-born Jokha Al-Harthi received her PhD in Classical Arabic Poetry at the University of Edinburgh in 2010 and currently teaches at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman’s capital Muscat. She has published two collections of short fiction, a children’s book, a volume of prose and poetry, thr...
On May 8, 2018, the Trump administration formally pulled out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a nuclear deal that the P5+1 (the US, UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany) agreed to with Iran. Trump has long been a critic of the JCPOA and has gone as far as to call it the “worst...
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The Iran deal was reached between Iran and the United States, the UK, Russia, France, China, Germany and the EU in July 2015 to ensure Iran's nuclear program will be "exclusively peaceful” by limiting its uranium enrichment program until 2030. US President fulfilled his campaign promise and ...
Another year has passed and another Ramadan season is upon us. For many Muslim countries, the Holy month of Ramadan is a festive period filled to the brim with traditions. While religious traditions, such as tarawih prayers and fasting, are shared across these countries, each one has different...
The Strait of Hormuz is strategically vital as most of the oil in the region is transferred to Europe, North America, and Asia via the waterway. Since the end of the Second World War, there have been multiple conflicts that have affected trade through the strait and have made Iran’s economic...
Illustration by Ali Mandalowi
1 - Born in 1957, Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf is a career military man who took over the country for just 24 hours on 11 April following the protests that ended President Omar al-Bashir’s 30-year reign. “I, the defense minister, chairman of the High Security Commi...
A former army chief, Abdelfattah el-Sisi stormed to the presidency at the 2014 polls winning 96.9 percent of the vote, a year after having led the military in ousting Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. Sisi was reelected in 2018, sweeping the poll with 97 percent of the ballots.
In early 2018,...
1 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika was born on March 2, 1937. Some biographers say Bouteflika was born in Tlemcen, western Algeria, and others give his place of birth as Oujda, just over the border in Morocco.
2 - In 1956, at the age of 19, Bouteflika fought in the 1954-1962 war to end French coloni...
Agnes Varda, the Belgian-born director who earned the title “grandmother of the French New Wave when she was barely 30 years old, died on March 19 at age 90, leaving behind her distinctive brand of wise and deeply personal masterpieces such as “Cléo from 5 to 7,” “Vagabond,” and “The Gleaners a...
