10 days after a catastrophic explosion of combustible ammonium nitrate that destructed the capital city, turmoil continues to engulf the nation of Lebanon. The blast has led to widespread anger from the public with thousands taking to the streets demanding the dismantling of Lebanon’s inept...
Rarely has the fate of many millions of people rested on an international competition like the one for a Covid-19 vaccine - the only sure escape route from the pandemic that can put an end to the 'new normal': no more social distancing or face masks. Unsurprisingly given the scale of the crisis...
Egypt-born Mahmood Al Durrah has been making waves in the fitness industry since he won the Canadian Nationals as a middle weight in 2012. From then, he has won several titles and competed in the world’s most prestigious bodybuilding competition, the flex-filled, oiled-muscle display of Mr...
The Chinese government has reportedly detained more than a million Muslims in more than 85 identified camps since 2017 where they undergo forced re-education and political indoctrination. Most of the people who have been arbitrarily detained are Uighur, a predominantly Turkic-speaking ethnic...
Qatar, one of the world’s richest countries, has a long history of migrant worker abuse and exploitation, which has garnered widespread international condemnation. The vast majority of Qatar’s 2 million migrant workers—a significant number given that the country’s overall population is just 2.6...
A new #MeToo firestorm is erupting in Egypt as a wave of allegations of sexual misconduct against a 22-year-old Egyptian university student who attended some of the country’s most elite schools and universities have been amplified on social media in the past two weeks. More than 100 accusers...
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have been at loggerheads with each other for almost 10 years over Addis Abba’s controversial dam being built on the Nile River. Ethiopia asserts that the new hydroelectric dam, the largest in Africa, which is going to be bigger than Greater London with a total capacity...
Hotter heatwaves, higher sea levels and more severe droughts: This is the sweltering reality in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) where climate change is an especially urgent issue. By 2030, temperatures in the world’s hottest, driest and most water-scarce region are expected to increase more...
Women in Middle East and North Africa face many challenges: According to the World Bank, 13 of the 15 countries with the lowest rate of female participation in the workforce are in the Arab world. Therefore, it may surprise some to learn that there are proportionally more female tech...
On June 15, President Trump’s pick to head a global network of news agencies funded and operated by the US government started work following a complex a two-year confirmation process in the Senate. By the end of June 17, Michael Pack had kicked off his tenure by firing the widely-respected heads...
