by Raneem Hannoush | May 4, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
London- The first day in any new post must be full of stress and challenges. Yet, it is more challenging for a politician who has to spend his days in a news environment after experiencing parliamentary sessions and budgets for the British treasury. After the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 5, 2017 | Middle East
Baghdad- Iraqi journalist Afrah Shawqi was released on Tuesday night, ten days after gunmen abducted her from her house in Baghdad. Shawqi said during a press conference she held on Wednesday that she was put in a cell for nine days, blindfolded, and underwent...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 27, 2016 | Middle East
Judicial sources said that Egypt’s Supreme State Security Prosecution yesterday ordered the imprisonment of an Al-Jazeera journalist named Mahmoud Hussein for 15 days pending investigation on charges including preparing “fabricated” reports about the country to...
by Samir Atallah | Nov 9, 2016 | Opinion
I have been travelling the world since I was twenty years old. My travels have taken me to Europe, Eastern Europe, America, the Gulf, Africa, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Russia, and other places that “I no longer remember” in the words of Ibn Al-Rumi. I was able to...
by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Apr 19, 2016 | Media
Ben Hubbard is a New York Times correspondent in the Middle East. He has spent 10 years in the region, studying and reporting for the US newspaper. During this time he has covered events taking place in the Arab world, particularly the Syrian civil war and its...
