Hiba Zayadin

When the Egyptian government first blocked access to news and media websites on May 24, 2017, it did so discreetly and without judicial oversight. State-run...

Two days ago, on June 5, 2017, Israelis marked fifty years since the 1967 Six Day War, which according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “one...

News about a wave of demonstrations spreading across the Moroccan cities of Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech and others since May 26, 2017 may have come as a...

On April 25, 2017, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released the 2017 edition of its Attacks on the Press report. Featuring twenty-one short...

In Israeli prisons today, over 6300 Palestinian political prisoners languish in horrible conditions. For the most part, they spend years, in near oblivion,...

Fear ripped through Egypt’s Coptic Christian community once more, on April 9, 2017, as two deadly bombings targeted churches in Tanta and Alexandria on Palm...

“The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. From this moment on, it’s going to be #AmericaFirst.” Donald Trump tweeted...

As the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen's civil war enters a third year, creating a humanitarian tragedy of epic proportions, children are not just...

Over the past few days, bright red dresses hanging from trees in and around the University of Toronto’s downtown campus have been hauntingly blowing in the...

Those who do not conform to non-violent approaches in the fight against oppressive systems, such as white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy and...

“If you are reading this letter, it means I am already dead, and the soul has risen to meets its creator.” These are the words with which Basil Al-Araj,...

Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, a region long neglected by successive governments, has witnessed growing terrorist activities since the overthrow of former dictator...

Marine Le Pen, France’s far-right presidential candidate running on an anti-immigration and anti-EU platform and shunned by many European leaders over her...

Torture in Egypt is a state policy so deeply entrenched, an uprising as significant as the 2011 revolution, which ended President Hosni Mubarak's almost...

As Donald Trump sends the United States into a state of shock and turmoil with an oppressive executive order "temporarily" banning citizens from seven...

They were each shot four times through the heart. Twelve bullets in total. Death by firing squad. That is how Bahraini prisoners and torture victims Sami...

January 14, 2016 was a cold, windy night on the Greek island of Lesvos. The often agitated Aegean sea was particularly unwelcoming for the thousands of...

In 2015, as thousands of refugees seeking asylum in Europe arrived on the shores of Greece every day, the migrant crisis became one of the most heavily...

Engineer Alaa Marie was arrested by Syrian state security from his home in Aleppo on April 15, 2014. Salma Abdelrazzaq, an architecture student from...

For the second time in less than a month, the streets of Khartoum and other Sudanese urban areas went largely silent on December 19, 2016. Images of empty...

On December 10, 2016, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi launched a campaign to support the nomination of diplomat Moushira Khattab for the post of UNESCO...

Over the past three weeks, government soldiers and militiamen in Syria have seized almost half of rebel-held eastern Aleppo. Over 300 civilians have been...

In 1991, Kamel Matmati, a Tunisian citizen and employee of the Tunisian Company of Electricity and Gas, was arrested in the city of Gabès and taken into...

It has been exactly one week since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States on November 9, 2016. Since then, Muftah has written about what...

Reunited families passionately embrace. Women fleeing tyranny remove their once forcibly donned burqas. A Christian archbishop leads his first Sunday mass in...

Over the past decade, more than 700 journalists and media workers have been killed for their work. Many more have been harassed, threatened, tortured and...

On October 7, 2016, as hundreds of Yemeni mourners gathered at a funeral hall in Sanaa, a Saudi-led military coalition orchestrated one of the deadliest...

Historic. A landmark deal. A breakthrough for improved diplomatic ties. A significant step forward. These were just some of the words used in international...

Based on a workshop convened in May 2016 by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s Regional Office Gulf States, this special collection brings together journalists...

Based on a workshop convened in May 2016 by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s Regional Office Gulf States, this special collection brings together journalists...

The notion of a coherent, collective Iraqi identity has long been under threat. Since the birth of modern-day Iraq in the 1920s, sectarianism and ethnic...

Outspoken Bahraini dissident Zainab Al-Khawaja has been arrested eleven times since anti-government protests were violently put down in 2011 by a monarchy bent...

On June 2, the UN added the Saudi-led coalition, which is conducting airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen, to its blacklist of states and armed groups...

Safia Jama was born in Queens, New York to a Somali father and an Irish American mother. She is a graduate fellow at the Cave Canem Foundation, an organization...

ISIS's brutal beheadings of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff  in 2014 shocked and terrorized the world. The equally brutal executions of...

In Yemen, a brutal civil war escalated in February 2015 after a rebel group, known as the Houthis, forced the country’s Saudi and Western-backed President...

To commemorate Israel’s “Independence Day,” which also marks the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their historical homeland,...

For those tuning in to independent Kurdish radio station, ARTA FM, on April 27, 2016, it was business as usual. The radio station, established in 2013 to serve...

Since coming to power, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has taken to issuing presidential pardons to commemorate major national holidays. Like clock...

On May 18, 2016, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will publicly apologize for an incident that took place in the early 1900s. Now remembered as a...