BEIRUT, Lebanon -News of a young Ethiopian woman who died a few weeks ago while trying to escape from a seventh-floor balcony east of Beirut prompted outrage across social media, including this post from a group named the Anti-Racist Movement: “Because the conditions are suffocating? Because she hasn’t been paid for x number of …
BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon -Since the outbreak of the war in Syria in 2011, Lebanon has absorbed more than one million Syrian refugees, registered with the UN’s refugee agency, making it the country that hosts the world’s largest refugee population per capita. Such an intake has produced a demographic shock as Lebanon’s population …
BEIRUT, Lebanon -Lebanon has been facing a political vacuum with its parliament‘s term of office due to expire on June 20. But a new draft law has sought to delay the crisis once more, extending parliament’s term until fresh elections can be held. Months of dispute and weeks of hard negotiations came to …
TUNIS, Tunisia -Last month Mohamed Zorgui found his dog dead on his doorstep, with a chilling note attached to it saying “enemy of Allah”. The 26-year-old rapper and former prisoner from Kasserine said that his beloved pet was killed as a warning after he broke away from the hardline militants who tried …
A draft new law targeting non-governmental organisations’ funding would be the latest blow to Egypt’s beleaguered civil society and a further erosion of civil liberties Egypt’s beleaguered civil society is facing new troubles in 2017, after a draft law was passed last November by the country’s parliament, designed to use the control …
Libya currently has no single, central government, there is no security, oil revenues have halved, and weapons flow out of the country. In the 6th year since the NATO-led intervention in Libya resulted in the toppling of long-time leader Moammar Gadhafi, the North African country has descended into a noticeably worse position …
Albeit irregular and small in size, labour actions have not stopped in Egypt facing economic slowdown, rising prices and low wages. In spite of Al-Sisi regime’s persistent crackdown on all kinds of dissent, labour unrest goes on in defiance of the 2013 law banning protests that was passed after the military-backed overthrow …
Poet Dareen Tatour joins hundreds of Palestinians arrested over the past year because of their social media posts. The simple act of expressing resistance to the Occupation is enough for Israel to target Tatour and others as part of its ongoing repression against the Palestinian people. In October 2015, 33-year-old Dareen Tatour, …
CAIRO, Egypt- Egypt’s often poor state healthcare system means medical workers as well as patients can be trapped in a vicious circle of inefficiency, negligence and frustration Last month, thousands of Egyptian doctors protested against alleged police abuses after a reported 28 January assault on two doctors at Cairo’s Matariya Hospital. The …
MINYA, Egypt- From living, working, and wages to housing, healthcare and education, there has been little socioeconomic development for the vast majority of Egyptians, particularly in Upper Egypt. Driving through Al-Shurafa, a village across the Nile from Minya, it takes little to notice the narrow, poorly paved roads, the modest houses clustered …