Iraq will host senior parliamentary officials from arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran on Saturday as Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi seeks to bolster his country's nascent role as a mediator in the region.
Delegations including the heads of (...)
President of the Emirates Policy Centre (EPC), a leading Emirati think tank, Ebtessam Al-Ketbi was in Cairo this week to take part in the launch of a project at the American University in Cairo (AUC) on the future of the Middle East.
The (...)
How do you evaluate the peace process that is currently underway in Afghanistan?
The reality is that the war is unfortunately continuing. There have been 40 years of war in this country, and there is no doubt that the majority of people want peace. (...)
Before President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi's latest visit to Washington, Egyptian opposition groups had placed their bets on a confrontational meeting between Al-Sisi and US President Donald Trump over issues of human rights and democracy in Egypt.
Trump (...)
US President Donald Trump's classification of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group has sparked fears among many Iraqis that their country may emerge as a potential field of confrontation between Tehran and Washington.
The (...)
The 12th round of the Astana meetings on the Syrian crisis is in the news this month, and the Turkish authorities have said that five more countries, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Germany and China, can participate in the talks scheduled for 25-26 April in (...)
Nothing explains Yemen's sinking into deeper divides better than its present parliamentary scene.
The parliament loyal to the internationally recognised government convened Saturday, in Seyoun city, Hadramout governorate, its first session since (...)
How do you evaluate the peace process that is currently underway in Afghanistan?
The reality is that the war is unfortunately continuing. There have been 40 years of war in this country, and there is no doubt that the majority of people want peace. (...)
Tottenham Hotspur's Moussa Sissoko did not realise his side had advanced to the Champions League semi-finals until a member of the coaching staff informed him in the dressing room that Manchester City's last-gasp goal had been disallowed.
With City (...)
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi met with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, his office said on Thursday, a day after his first official visit to the kingdom which has been wooing Baghdad to stem the influence of Tehran.
Abdul (...)
A Bahraini court sentenced 69 people to life in prison and revoked the citizenship of 138 defendants on terrorism-related charges, the public prosecutor said Tuesday, in one of the largest mass trials ever held in the country.
It also marked the (...)
Syrians in government-controlled areas who have survived eight years of war now face a new scourge: widespread fuel shortages that have brought life to a halt in major cities.
Cars line up by the hundreds outside petrol stations, and long lines of (...)
في انتخابات التجديد النصفي للكونجرس نوفمبر من العام الماضي أصبحت الفتاة النحيفة ذات ال37 عامًا إلهان عمر أول امرأة مسلمة ترتدي الحجاب تفوز في الانتخابات، حدث احتفى به أغلب العرب والديمقراطيين إلا أن معاناة النائبة مع الرئيس ترامب لم تتوقف.
اقرأ (...)
Iran will ask the international community to take a position on the U.S. designation of its Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was cited as saying on Sunday.
Iran condemned U.S. President Donald (...)
The upcoming announcement of the American plan to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, tensions in the US-Turkish relationship, Israeli elections, Washington's recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, ongoing US interest in (...)
Washington put the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on its list of foreign terrorist groups on Monday, as part of its tougher line against Tehran.
In response, Iran's Supreme National Security Council applied its own terrorist (...)
Recent remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu revealed disturbing features of the “Deal of the Century” that US President Donald Trump is expected to unveil soon now that Israeli Knesset elections have ended.
The deal paves the way for (...)
Change is in the air in Khartoum as popular protests continue in front of the General Command of the Armed Forces and amid “reports” about President Omar Al-Bashir stepping down.
The winds of change did not begin just this week with rumours that (...)
There is a growing view that after seven years of multi-faceted wars, the Eastern Mediterranean is returning to stability.
Four factors lend credibility to this view, but their impact will be merely in the short-term. What will really shape the (...)
The Saudi-led coalition carried out air strikes in Yemen against two Houthi targets in Sanaa, the capital, early on Wednesday, its spokesman said.
The coalition said the strikes targeted a Houthi drone-manufacturing plant and a warehouse containing (...)
Oil prices rose to $70.59 per barrel in Sunday trading, the highest level since November 2018, pushed by the current production cuts applied by members and non-members of OPEC, in addition to the US sanctions imposed on Iran and Venezuela, as well (...)
Israelis began voting in an election on Tuesday that could hand conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a record fifth term or see him dethroned by an ex-general who has pledged clean government and social cohesion.
Polling stations opened at (...)
Iran has named career diplomat and ex-nuclear negotiator Majid Takht Ravanchi as its ambassador to the United Nations, state media said, as it tries to salvage a nuclear deal with world powers after the unilateral US withdrawal.
Takht Ravanchi, 61, (...)
President Donald Trump says the US has designated Iran's Revolutionary Guard a “foreign terrorist organization” as part of an effort to increase international pressure on the country.
It's an unprecedented move because the US has never before used (...)
يعرض في البانوراما خارج المسابقة بمهرجان الإسماعيلية للأفلام التسجيلية والقصيرة عدد مميز من الأفلام التي حصدت جوائز عديدة في عرضها العالمي ومنها:
بابليك The Babelcs
Italy/ Italian/ 63 Min/ 2018
ملخص الفيلم:
البابلكس هم جماعة من الفنانين غير (...)
