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Yemen

Participants, including Yemen's Foreign Minister Khalid al-Yamani and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrive for a session at the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle east in Warsaw, on February 14, 2019. (AFP)

Houthis urged to abide by Stockholm Agreement

Environment

Locusts are seen in the Menabe region of western Madagascar, March 29, 2013. (Reuters)

Locust outbreak threatens Egypt, Saudi Arabia: UN

News & Analysis

German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen and US Secretary of Defence Patrick Shanahan shake hands during the annual Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on February 15. (Reuters)

US, Germany vow to continue fight against ISIS at Munich conference

East|West

Renu, eldest sister of missing British girl Shamima Begum, holds a picture of her sister while being interviewed by the media in central London, on February 22, 2015. (AFP)

Shamima Begum case exemplifies ISIS returnees’ conundrum

Palestine

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu speaks with White House adviser Jared Kushner as they meet in Warsaw, on February 14. (Reuters)

Kushner: Mideast peace plan expected after Israeli election

East|West

In this July 2018 file photo, Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, left, commander of US Africa Command, is joined by US Ambassador to Senegal Tulinabo S. Mushingi, right, while speaking to press.

US military denies taking part in raid on al Qaeda site in Libya

Latest Issue

Issue: 192 | Sun, February 10, 2019

Top Stories

Pope Francis makes historic visit to UAE

Yemen prisoner exchange talks falter

Sarraj throws a wrench in Haftar’s southern plans

A Beirut cafe that offers coffee, tea and empathy

Opinion

How the West’s own problems are affecting the Middle East

It’s been eight years since Yemen’s ‘youth revolution’. So what are we celebrating?

Migrant sons of migrants or citizen sons of migrants?

Haitham El-Zobaidi

The Arab world’s new wave of migrants

Oussama Romdhani

Remembering King Hussein of Jordan

Khairallah Khairallah

Cult-like ‘Quranic school’ exposed in Tunisia

Nothing to celebrate about Iran’s revolution

Editorial

UAE

This handout photo released by the Vatican Media, shows Pope Francis (L) boarding his plane on February 5, 2019. (AFP)

Pope Francis’s visit to the UAE

Iran

A file photo showing an Iranian university student attends a protest inside Tehran University while a smoke grenade is thrown by anti-riot Iranian police, in Tehran. (AP)

Iran’s indiscriminate crackdown on dissent

Sudan

Tear gas smoke is seen amidst cars after Sudanese security forces used it to disperse protesters taking part in an anti-government demonstration in Khartoum on February 14, 2019. (AFP)

Sudan accuses protest leaders of threatening national security

Egypt

Egypt's Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel-Aal (C) chairs a parliament plenary session to deliberate the proposed constitutional amendments to increase office term durations for the country's president from four to six years, in the capital Cairo on February 14, 2019. (AFP)

Egypt parliament approves extending presidential terms

Economy

An Emirates Airbus A380-800 airliner prepares to land at Nice international airport, France, January 18, 2018. (Reuters)

Iconic A380 jet to end after Emirates reduces order

Society

A man holds red flowers for Valentine's Day in in the Iraqi city of Mosul, on February 13. (Reuters)

Arabs mark Valentine’s Day with humour on social media

East|West

This 2012 photo released by the Department of Justice shows Monica Elfriede Witt. (AP)

Former US intel official charged after defecting to Iran

Saudi Arabia

File photo Pakistan's Army Chief General Raheel Sharif. (AP)

Pakistan to play a 'greater role' in Saudi-led Islamic anti-terrorism coalition

Palestine

Patriotic symbol. A Palestinian woman displays a handmade embroidered Palestinian thobe in the West Bank village of Idna, north of Hebron. (AP)

Iconic Palestinian robe fashions a new political symbol

Iraq

A worker cuts the remnants of destruction from the battle of Mosul, at an iron factory in Erbil, Iraq, on February 2. (Reuters)

Iran-backed groups corner Iraq’s postwar scrap metal market

Lebanon

Wassim el-Hage surrounded by some of his staff at Beirut’s Agonist coffee shop. (Beirut’s Agonist)

A Beirut cafe that offers coffee, tea and empathy

Society

A view of the destroyed Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul. (AFP)

Restoration of al-Nuri mosque sends a message

Economy

An investor walks past a screen displaying stock information at the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) in Riyadh, June 29, 2016. (Reuters)

Saudi Tadawul begins collaboration with foreign index providers

Iraq

Iraqi writers and intellectuals shout slogans and raise banners showing the portrait of slain novelist Alaa Mashdhub in Baghdad’s central Tahrir square, February 6. (AFP)

Slain Iraqi novelist criticised foreign meddling, militias

Travel

A gigantic elephant before it was sunk at the site of the museum. (Ahmed Megahid)

Egypt’s Underwater Museum is divers’ haven

Culture

Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun in Paris. (AFP)

Talking with Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun

Mokhlis al-Saghir

Opinion

A scene from the Tunisian series “Chouerreb” which investigates the life of Ali Chouerreb, a notorious Tunisian criminal. (Courtesy of Lotfi Abdelli)

Glorifying criminals deeply rooted in Arab popular culture

Culture

A painting by Yusra Alabadi on display at the annual exhibition of the Iraqi Plastic Artists Society in Baghdad. (Oumayma Omar)

Iraqi women artists face many obstacles, receive little support

Opinion

A general view of al-Fattah al-Aleem Mosque in the New Administrative Capital (NAC), 45km east of Cairo. (Reuters)

Factoring in security, economics in building mosques in Egypt

Mohammed Abdul Hadi

Society

A mother looks at her daughter’s work at the Il Penello Ceramic cafe in Heliopolis in northern Cairo. (Il Penello Ceramic)

The paintbrush is replacing the shisha in Egypt’s cafes

Mohammed Abdul Hadi