Fatima Mohie-Eldin @Fatima_Alev

On September 25, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq will hold an advisory referendum on independence for the de facto state. While the move...

With record numbers of refugees crossing into Europe from the Mediterranean in the past two years, Italy, which is a frequent point of entry, has sought to...

On Wednesday, August 30, millions of pilgrims began arriving in Mecca for Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Islam's holiest site. Each year millions of Muslims...

Though international media coverage on Egypt often focuses on President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s growing authoritarianism or security threats in the Sinai...

After Tunisia’s parliament passed historic legislation on July 26, targeting violence against women, Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi followed the...

On August 10, 160 Ethiopian migrants were violently forced overboard by human smugglers off Yemen’s coast, leading to the death of six people. The tragic...

On August 1, the lower house of Jordan’s parliament voted to revoke Article 308 of the country’s penal code, which contained a provision allowing rapists...

On July 25, 2017, in a joint Rose Garden press conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, President Donald Trump reaffirmed U.S. efforts to support...

Since May, the United States has been sending small arms to the Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) to fight ISIS in Syria, despite warnings from Turkey,...

U.S. arts and crafts retailer, Hobby Lobby, was recently found to have smuggled thousands of ancient artifacts out of Iraq between 2010 and 2011.  The...

Undocumented African migrant workers in Algeria may soon be able to acquire residency and job permits, according to a new plan announced earlier this month by...

In the last two years, several online and mobile games have been developed to humanize the Syrian refugee crisis for people in the United States and Europe....

Yemen’s ongoing civil war has led to the deaths of thousands of civilians and caused millions more to be displaced from their homes since 2015. Amidst this...

Recent photographs and videos showing U.S.-led coalition forces using what appears to be white phosphorus in Iraq and Syria began circulating online in early...

Although traditionally considered a genre for adolescents, over the years, graphic novels have gained increasing popularity as a documentary medium for serious...

For a week now, Muslims around the world have been fasting from sunrise to sunset for the holy month of Ramadan. Although meant to be a time of moderation,...

Diplomatic tensions between Egypt and Sudan have been on the rise since early 2017. In February, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir accused Egypt of supporting...

Since April 18, two groups of Syrian asylum seekers, fifty-five people in all, have been held at the Moroccan-Algerian border, near the Moroccan town of...

The effects of climate change and a growing population have put pressure on water needs across rural Morocco. The country’s southwest Sidi Ifni region, a...

As the Syrian refugee crisis persists, some journalists have lamented about the general lack of understanding about the personal experiences of refugees....

Tunisia’s prison system has long been a cause for concern among human rights monitoring groups. These fears have recently been exacerbated by the prison...

Up until the 1950s, Egypt’s Jewish community was thriving, with as many as 100,000 residents. Today, only about eighteen Jews remain, most of them elderly...

Six years after the U.S.-backed intervention in Libya, the Trump administration allegedly has plans to partition the country in order to achieve stability....

Two and a half years after the downturn in global oil prices, from $108 to $30 per barrel, the Algerian economy is still struggling to recover from the impact....

After being targeted for genocide by ISIS from 2014 to 2015, the Yazidis of Sinjar, Iraq are now caught in a conflict between rival Kurdish factions....

Recent influxes of sub-Saharan migrants passing from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta highlight the Moroccan government’s refusal to cede control over...

Since capturing Mosul in June 2014, ISIS has maintained control over Iraq’s second largest city. A coalition of Iraqi and Kurdish troops, supported by the...

Commissioned by UN Women in Egypt, a recent ad campaign entitled Finding Her highlights the vast gender disparity in the Egyptian workforce. Posters in the...

Al-Azhar, Egypt’s leading Islamic authority, has recently found itself at odds with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after initially supporting his rise to...

Following large-scale demonstrations against Trump’s travel ban, the 9th Circuit court’s decision, on February 9, to uphold a national wide stay of the...

Following the popular uprising against President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Egypt's political system underwent a dramatic overhaul. For the first time, any party...