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Mauritania

Mohamed Ould Boubacar attends a press conference with fellow Mauritanian opposition leaders in Nouakchoot, June 23. (AFP)

Mauritania opposition candidate challenges presidential election result

Gulf

A file photo shows Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said (R) meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at Al Alam Palace in Muscat. (DPA)

Oman says to open embassy in Palestinian territories

Palestine

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde consults a document after arriving for the Peace to Prosperity workshop in Manama, June 25. (AP)

Bahrain conference: Peace critical for US plan for Mideast

Palestine

An Israeli policeman holds a weapon during a Palestinian protest against Bahrain's workshop, in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 25. (Reuters)

Saudi minister says Kushner's plan could succeed if there is ‘hope of peace’

Iran

A file photo shows the spokesman of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation (AEOI), Behrouz Kamalvandi, at a press briefing in Tehran. (AFP)

Iran says to speed up enriching uranium after Europe deadline

Egypt

A frame grab shows a blindfolded Egyptian militant, Hisham el-Ashmawi, escorted by Egyptian military officers in Cairo, May 29. (Egyptian State Television via AP)

Egypt jihadist returned from Libya back on trial

Latest Issue

Issue: 211 | Sun, June 23, 2019

Top Stories

Palestinians unanimous in objections to Bahrain conference

Security concerns as Egypt fears possible Brotherhood violence after Morsi’s death

Libya’s guns louder than megaphone diplomacy

Syrian refugees feeling increasingly unwelcome in Lebanon

Berber identity politics assailed by Algeria’s military chief

US mulls ‘measured’ strikes as Iran prepares to break nuclear limits

Opinion

Can anyone gain from tensions in the Gulf?

The terrible link between jihadists and Islamophobes

Rashmee Roshan Lall

Mystery fires in Iraq kill dream of food self-sufficiency

The radical left provides Iran’s ‘useful idiots’ in the West

Tallha Abdulrazaq

Before boycotting Manama, remember Madrid

Khairallah Khairallah

Amid turmoil, Algeria remains a riddle wrapped in mystery

Syria still faces uphill struggle to return to international fold

Editorial

Refugees

A Syrian refugee child looks from the entrance of his family's tent in a camp in the town of el-Marj, in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, June 13. (DPA)

MENA’s displaced on World Refugee Day

Iran

This picture taken on June 15, 2019 shows tanker ships in the waters of the Gulf of Oman off the coast of the eastern UAE emirate of Fujairah. (AFP)

The dangerous games Iran plays

East|West

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani attends a meeting with the Health Ministry officials, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran says US sanctions on Khamenei mean end of diplomacy

East|West

French President Emmanuel Macron (C-L) listens to his French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian duirng the Mediterranean Summit which is being held in the city of Marseille, southern France, on June 24, 2019. (AFP)

France hosts Mediterranean conference without heads of state

East|West

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at Al Salam Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, June 24, 2019. (Reuters)

Pompeo meets with Saudi king

Turkey

Ekrem Imamoglu, mayoral candidate of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), holds a rally in Beylikduzu district, in Istanbul, Turkey, June 23, 2019. (Reuters)

In major setback for Erdogan, Turkish opposition wins Istanbul election

Sudan

Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) soldiers secure the area as they wait for the arrival of Lieutenant General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, deputy head of the military council and head of RSF, before a meeting in Aprag village June 22, 2019. (Reuters)

Sudan's protesters accept roadmap for civilian rule

Mauritania

Ruling party presidential candidate and former Defense Minister Mohamed Ould El Ghazouani casts his ballot in Nouakchott, Mauritania, Saturday June 22, 2019. (AP)

Mauritanian president's candidate claims election victory

Lebanon

Syrian refugees outside their tents, in the Bekaa Valley town of Saadnayel, east Lebanon. (AP)

Syrian refugees feeling increasingly unwelcome in Lebanon

Iran

Flaunting rights. An Iranian police vehicle is seen parked outside a currency exchange shop in Tehran. (AFP)

Despite international outcry, Iran keeps executing children

Interview

TV and film production veteran Khulud Abu Homos. (Courtesy of Khulud Abu Homos)

The changing face of region’s TV landscape

Khadija Hamouchi

Gulf

Shadow of war. Sailors stand on deck above a hole the US Navy said was made by a limpet mine planted on the Japanese-owned oil tanker Kokuka Courageous, anchored off Fujairah, June 19. (AFP)

Attacks in Arabian Gulf threaten global economy

Syria

‘Brotherhood blood’. A 2007 file picture shows Syrian President Bashar Assad (R) meeting with Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal in Damascus.(AP)

Syria says no to restoring ties with Hamas

Lebanon

Many questions. A map shows the ten offshore blocks off the Lebanese coast for which the Lebanese cabinet in December 2017 approved licences for three international companies to carry out exploratory drilling. (AP)

US-mediated talks between Lebanon and Israel expected to begin in weeks

Simon Speakman Cordall

Culture

A family walks through the ancient Medina of Fez, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Rabat. (AP)

Facelift helps Morocco's Old City of Fez lure tourists

Culture

Street art in Beirut. (Courtesy of Dihzahyners)

Street art revitalising Beirut with colours and shapes

Culture

A painting by artist Nour al-Masri. (Al Arab)

Saudi writer Amina al-Hasan focuses on ‘reality of women’ amid social change

Zaki al-Soudeir

Travel

A fancy cafe and restaurant in Dahab. (Ahmed Megahid)

Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Dahab gaining prominence

Culture

“The Breakup” from the exhibition of Michael Rakowitz in London. (Karen Dabrowska)

Michael Rakowitz exhibition showcases destruction of Iraqi heritage

Karen Dabrowska

Culture

Mazameer El Nil musicians play Upper Egyptian music. (Marwa al-A’sar)

Family group preserves musical heritage of Upper Egypt