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Desensitisation offers hope to thousands of patients registered on the waiting list for kidney transplants

Promising Discovery That Allows Kidney Transplants “From Any Donor”

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 11, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

American researchers have made a discovery that promises to change the lives of thousands of patients with kidney failure and to facilitate the harmonisation of kidney transplants “from any donor” with their bodies. The researchers said in the study published in the...

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US Secretary of State John Kerry answers questions about the ceasefire in Syria at the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (EPA)

Washington: Iran Has Reduced its Military Presence in Syria But is Transporting Weapons to Lebanon

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 26, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

While a “cessation of hostilities” agreement in Syria will come into effect at midnight today amidst broad support from almost all parties, the US Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday that Iran has withdrawn “a large number of Revolutionary Guards forces” and...

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Al-Mutlaq: The Released Americans Were Kidnapped by Those Who Kidnapped the Qataris

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 17, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

While Iraqi and US sources yesterday confirmed the release of three Americans who were kidnapped in Iraq in January, the deputy of the Iraqi parliament’s security and defence committee Hamid Al-Mutlaq told Asharq Al-Awsat that “known and armed militias that are...

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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz whilst leading the council of ministers’ session in Riyadh (SPA)

A Difficult Start for Geneva 3 and a Russian-American Meeting to Prevent its Collapse

by Michel Abu Najm | Feb 2, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

Whilst the UN envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura announced the “official” beginning of talks that aim to end the civil war yesterday in Geneva, followers of developments noticed UN confusion on the first day of talks despite the fact that it ended with a glimmer of...

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Diana Abu-Jaber

Diana Abu-Jaber: I am Trying to Find Cultural Balance Between Ancestry and America

by Mohammad Ali Salih | Dec 22, 2015 | Interviews

Washington, Asharq Al-Awsat – Diana Abu-Jaber is an American author and a professor at Portland State University. She was born in Syracuse, New York to a Jordanian father and an American mother. At the age of seven she moved with her family to Jordan for two...