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Opinion

Europe

A French gendarme gestures to a migrant during a clearing out of a makeshift camp in central Paris, on June 4. (AP)

Double-standard treatment of refugees in Europe

US

Iranian President Hassan Rohani walks past the media at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, on June 10. (AP)

The atomic spectre returns to haunt Iran

Lebanon

Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriation Gebran Bassil (C) is greeted with flower petals at a Syrian refugee camp in the town of Arsal on the eastern border with Syria, on June 13, 2018. (AFP)

Lebanese politicians play populist card in face-off with UNHCR

Islamism

Cover of Fawaz Gerges’s new book “Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East.”

Islamism and secular nationalism have much in common

Turkey

A file picture shows supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood shouting slogans during a rally in front of the Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul. (Reuters)

Islamists’ partisan elevation of Istanbul is not credible

© Yaser Ahmed for The Arab Weekly

US-North Korea summit

North Korea and Iran © Yaser Ahmed for The Arab Weekly

North Korea and Iran

Water

Cleaning water, saving lives. An engineer fills a flask with recycled water at an advanced water purification facility. (AP)

Water purification technology: a needed investment for MENA countries

Trump

Iran will watch Trump-Kim summit more closely than anyone