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Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (L) meets with Omani Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said, October 23. (AFP)

Pragmatic paradigm shift will help resolve Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Iran

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech during a meeting with navy commanders and officers in Tehran, November 28. (Office of Iran’s Supreme Leader)

Empty rhetoric did not save Saddam or Qaddafi, it will not save Iran

Ibrahim al-Zoubeidi

Iraqi

Cover of Samuel Helfont’s “Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq.”

Studying Saddam’s ‘compulsion in religion’

Cairo

Cover of L.L. Wynn’s “Love, Sex and Desire in Modern Egypt.”

L.L. Wynn’s ‘Love, Sex and Desire in Modern Egypt’

Dunia El-Zobaidi

gender equality

A view of a minaret of al-Azhar mosque in Cairo as passers-by climb out of a pedestrian-crossing tunnel traversing a main street. (AFP)

Al-Azhar’s contradictions betray bias against gender equality

Hisham al-Najjar

Egypt

Egyptian parents teach newborns how to swim in Cairo. (Reuters)

Can fatwas help Egypt with birth control?

Arabic

Saudi entrepreneur Manar Alomayri poses at the Digital Media Services tent as a part of the Step 2017 Conference and Music in Dubai. (AP)

Celebrating the Arabic language in the digital age

Khadija Hamouchi

Erdogan

The high cost of Erdogan’s adventures

Zulfikar Dogan-12434

oil

An Iranian worker walks the platform of an oil facility in the Khark Island. (AFP)

Iran’s shadowy game with oil exports