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An Iraqi tailor sews a national flag at his workshop in Baghdad AFP Photo / Sabah Arar
Anthem

Iraq aims to unite with new national anthem, flag

Iraq aiming to create new unifying national symbols

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
USAID estimates there are roughly 4 million Syrians in need of humanitarian assistance inside the country, with 2 million internally displaced persons. AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI
Al-assad

Syrian clashes near Jordanian border

Fighting in Syria approaches borders again

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha

Tens of thousands protest anti-Islam film in Nigeria

(AFP) –KANO, Nigeria — Tens of thousands of people on Saturday protested…

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
A picture dated 19 September 1982 shows a Palestinian woman crying while civil defence workers remove the body of one of her relatives from the rubble of her home in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra, in West Beirut AFP PHOTO
ambassador

Sabra and Shatila, 30 years on

Evidence continues to highlight responsibility and failed intervention

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Palestinian relatives of Anis Abu al-Aynin attend his funeral in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on 20 September An Israeli strike on Gaza killed two people, whom Palestinian officials described as border guards, but Israel said it had thwarted an attack in the advanced planning stage AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB
Conflict

Two Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike

Israel claims those killed terrorists, Hamas claims border patrol

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
Bahrain women protesters (file photo) AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH
assistance

Women’s revolution in the Middle East could be sooner than expected

Saudi women allowed to travel within Gulf without guardians’ approval, while Iranian…

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Abdullah II, King of Jordan AFP Photo
censorship

Jordan passes law restricting internet freedom

New online media laws to increase censorship in Jordan

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
Members of the Islamic Action Front, the political wing of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, demonstrate in the Jordanian capital Amman in November 2011 (File photo) AFP PHOTO / Khalil Mazraawi
authority

Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood causes contreversy

The Jordanian Brotherhood's new plan to limit powers of the king

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Security personnel from the government of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas took 71 West Bank Palestinians into custody (File photo) AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI
arrest

Dozens of Palestinians arrested in West Bank

Rights groups condemn West Bank authorities' detainment of Palestinians

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
Newsweek cover page with “Muslim Rage” headline
copts

Newsweek releases controversial “Muslim rage” cover

Online groups find humour in sensationalist cover title

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh