Tunisian President Kais Saied delivered an impassioned speech on Monday evening in which he laid down his vision for a transitional period in the country fewer than two months after he suspended parliament and dismissed the cabinet.
The speech came (...)
On Saturday evening, Tunisian President Kaies Said walked into Habib Bourguiba Avenue amid cheers and ululations with his entourage, chatting with people for photo ops before telling news channels broadcasting his appearance that he plans to amend (...)
Crystal clear, translucent waters and gently undulating soft white sand are embraced by stones. The picturesque green mountainous backdrop with perfect blue skies does not suggest Algeria. And few outside the North African country have heard of the (...)
The most lethal and transmissible variant of the Covid-19 virus is taking Tunisia by storm, exacerbating the country's political and economic difficulties in what is probably the North African country's worse crisis since the 2011 uprising.
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Algeria held its third round of voting in less than two years this week, bringing about little or no change to the political crisis that brought down president Abdelaziz Bouteflika in April 2019.
As Al-Ahram Weekly went to press, the preliminary (...)
In a special one-day session held on 27 May, the United Nation's Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted an unprecedented resolution to investigate war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and Israel.
This happened six days after a (...)
In the early hours of 25 May, an undercover Israeli force from the Mista'arvim unit posing as Arabs raided the town of Um Al-Sharayet in the West Bank city of Ramallah and assassinated a 23-year-old Palestinian man identified as Ahmad Jamil (...)
Election fever in Gaza and the West Bank has been in full swing for over a month after Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas called in January this year for legislative and presidential elections to be held on 22 May and 21 July, (...)
Ennahda, Tunisia's largest parliamentary bloc, has accused President Kais Saied of demonstrating "authoritarian tendencies," following statements that his powers over the military extended to the country's internal security forces.
The moderate (...)
Textile themed exhibitions are uncommon in Egypt despite the long legacy of that art. They are reserved for, and associated with, the occasional state-sponsored annual handcrafts fairs held in the fluorescent-lit halls of conference (...)
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza will be heading to the polls for the first time since 2006 to elect a new Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) on 22 May.
As the deadline for registering electoral lists approaches on 31 March, the voters are (...)
Two years ago, Egypt marked the centenary of the 1919 Revolution, which transformed the country in the first half of the 20th century, ushering in its “golden age” and standing in the region. The only surviving and undisputed authority on the (...)
It has been a month since Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas called for presidential and legislative elections in Palestine for the first time in 15 years.
The announcement was made just days before US President Joe Biden was sworn (...)
Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti died at the age of 76 in Amman, Jordan, on Sunday. His suddenly deteriorating health had not been made public, as he proceeded stoically towards his final days, much in the way he had navigated his life.
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I grew up disliking qulqas, the Egyptian taro dish my mother cooked religiously every winter. She would stock up and freeze enough khodra — the green herb paste that formed the base of the stew, imparting flavour to the otherwise bland starchy root (...)
Saiid Bouteflika, the younger brother and adviser of Algeria's former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and four others were acquitted on Saturday of conspiracy charges for which they were serving long prison sentences by a military court in (...)
No one has seen Algerian President Abdelmejid Tebboune publicly in over 50 days after he contracted the Covid-19 virus two months ago.
His last appearance was on 15 October. After initial treatment in a local military health facility, Tebboune, 75, (...)
“If you have an ounce of dignity, get out of the hall, occupiers, child murderers!”
Kuwaiti Parliamentary Speaker Marzouk Al-Ghanem became something of a household name across the Arab world three years ago when a video clip of his fiery anti-Israel (...)
The decade-old chant that has resonated across the region roared across central Beirut again this week: “the people want the fall of the regime.”
On Saturday 8 August, the Lebanese capital was beginning to recover from the shock of the massive (...)
After eight years of negotiations with Addis Ababa ended in failure, Cairo has taken its dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
In a letter to the top UN body on 19 June, Egypt's (...)
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Having occupied Egypt in 1882, Britain puts Sudan —conquered by Mohamed Ali in 1820 — under its imperial rule. A governor-general, appointed by Egypt with British consent, administers it.
The British begin construction of the Aswan Low Dam. (...)
Monday, 30 March, marked the second anniversary of the Great March of Return where thousands of Palestinians in Gaza took to the border with Israel every Friday in 2018 till the end of 2019.
It is also Palestine Land Day — an important commemorative (...)
On 22 February, Algeria's protest movement, the hirak, will complete a year of weekly street demonstrations in the country that have been unprecedented in intensity and longevity since the 1954-1962 War of Independence from France.
This popular (...)
Amid calls for a boycott, espionage charges against a prominent candidate's campaign, massive anti-government protests and sweeping arrests, Algeria is scheduled to hold its presidential elections today on 12 December.
They will be the first (...)
Twenty-two candidates have submitted their registration papers to run for Algeria's 12 December presidential election despite the months-long mass protest movement demanding the departure of the same regime that will oversee the vote.
The protests (...)