by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Mar 25, 2017 | Features
London – Whether it is “Azzam the American,” a top al-Qaeda leader killed by a drone attack on Pakistani-Afghan borders in 2016, Shoe Bomber Richard Reid, who is serving a life sentence, or Khalid Masood, who staged last Wednesday’s London parliament attack,...
by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Jan 4, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
London– Egypt is struggling to preserve its archeological heritage in the wake of a significant drop in the number of tourists and the unprecedented economic crisis that followed the 2011 political uprising. The North African and Middle Eastern country used to rely on...
by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Oct 15, 2016 | World
London- Scotland Yard is currently investigating the appearance of Lebanese so-called Hezbollah flags at a procession of Ashura organized last Wednesday in the British capital. A spokeswoman from the Scotland Yard told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the investigation...
by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Sep 3, 2016 | Interviews
The Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs Ioannis Kasoulidis spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat for more than an hour and a half about the good relations between his country and the Arab region. He also touched on his meeting with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi last month during...
by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Aug 2, 2016 | Middle East
London- Bahraini opponent Kassem Hashem has been sentenced 12 years in prison for being accused of rape, physical violence and pedophilia. Despite his allegations of being a human rights activist and a religious person who disapproves the regime in the Gulf, the...