Mend Mariwany @mendlusi

In less than a decade, art events and exhibition spaces in the Gulf, including Art Dubai, the Sharjah Biennial, and the Qatar Museum Authority, have catapulted...

On June 14, 2015, Iranians took to the streets to celebrate the culmination of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group. The final agreement...

Two high-profile Arabs from the Gulf are donating hundreds of billions of dollars to charitable causes. But while many are likely to welcome the move,...

Since the 1940s, when a group of women  formed the Lebanese Women’s Union, calling for cross-regional unity amongst women, Arab feminist struggles have...

Qatar’s pledge to abolish its controversial Kafala labor system by the end of 2015 was delayed again, on June 23. The country’s Advisory Council rejected...

On June 17, the Arab Museum of Contemporary Art and Heritage opened in the Israeli-Arab village of Sakhnin. As international artists are increasingly signing...

Last week, on June 3, the German government welcomed Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on an official state visit to the country. The move angered...

Iranian lawmakers are considering a bill, which they hope will give transsexuals greater protections against police violence. On May 27, Iran’s religious...

Last week, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) captured two major cities, Palmyra and Ramadi. Despite months of military attacks from the Iraqi and...

Almost two months into the Saudi-led military invasion in Yemen, the German weekly Der Spiegel  published a revealing interview with Prince Turki bin Faisal...

Last week, during a trip to the White House, the President of the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), Masoud Barzani, renewed calls for a referendum on...

Between March 4 and April 4, 2015, Moroccan photography initiative Ma Ville, French for ‘My City’,  invited people in three Moroccan cities – Tangier,...

A recent survey has revealed, since the Arab Spring began in 2010, the number of Arab youth who believe there is a future for democracy in the Middle East and...

On Sunday, April 19, news emerged of a joint venture between France, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon to begin French arms shipments to Lebanon this week. With a $3...

On March 30, 2015, Arab states gathered for a summit in Sharm Al-Shaikh, Egypt, where they discussed the ongoing regional crises. At the summit, they also...

Last week, on April 4, the Iraqi Military claimed its first major victory in the city of Tikrit, after launching a military campaign to liberate Iraqi...

On Thursday, March 26, Saudi Arabia launched a military campaign in Yemen,  after fighters and army units allied with the Houthi movement threatened to...

On March 17 and 18, 2015, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) hosted the first Arab Social Media Influencers Summit in Dubai, attracting social media...

Since March 12, the Iraqi government has been engaged in a ground military-offensive against the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS), in the northern city...

Last week, the London-based Shubbak Festival of Contemporary Arab Culture announced the lineup for its third event in July 2015, featuring up and coming...

On February 16, 2015, the French judiciary upheld the life-sentence for Lebanese activist Georges Ibrahim Abdullah, and dismissed his request for parole....

Will this revolution come to an end? Sure. They are not immortal. - Return to Homs When the Syrian uprisings began in early 2011, people across the...

On Thursday, February 19, the Guardian published an open letter by Yair Lapid, chairman of Yesh Atid, Israel’s largest political party, former finance...

On Thursday, February 12, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution against the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS), aimed at freezing the...

The past two weeks saw the arrival of two new pan-Arab media networks. The Saudi/Bahraini Al Arab TV, and Qatari/UK Al Araby Al Jadeed both launched with the...

Following two months of bloody battles between the Syrian-Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) and the militant group, the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq...

One of the longest-held prisoners, Mohamedou Ould Slahi has published his diary, giving the first detailed account of life inside Guantanamo Bay. Slahi,...

Last week, Muftah editor Douglas Garrison wrote a piece in response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks, in which he asked whether an ‘Islamic Reformation’ can...

As millions of people participated in the Paris Unity March, on January 11, against last week's Charlie Hebdo attack, dramatic footage of the...

Official Syrian State-TV welcomed 2015 with footage of President Bashar al-Assad greeting his troops and dining with them in the embattled town of Jobar. The...

According to the news site US News, the U.S. has stockpiled over 3000 military vehicles, mostly mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles (MRAPs), in a depot in...

Two months after Norway and Egypt hosted a fundraising conference for Gaza in Cairo, only a fraction of the sum promised at the event has reached Palestinians....

On December, 4, Afghanistan’s President Ashram Ghani attended a one-day conference in London, bringing together Afghanistan and its key international allies,...

On Wednesday, November 26, Reuters reported that a covert training camp for Syrian rebels was being held at a desert base in Qatar. The training, which is...

Last week the Iraqi military claimed its first major victory over the Islamic State of Iraq & Syria (ISIS), with the retaking of Baiji in the north-east of...

Kuwait has announced plans to deal with its stateless population of approximately 110,000 people by deporting them to Comoros, an island off the coast of...

Monday November 8 marked the last day of Ashura, which commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. In cities across Iraq, the...

The Egyptian army has ordered the evacuation of civilians inhabiting the town of Rafah, which is located between the Egypt-Gaza border. The forced evacuation...

On October 23, Turkey announced its decision to allow 200 Iraqi-Kurdish Peshmerga fighters into the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane to help resist ISIS’s...

Last week a court in Saudi Arabia sentenced Nimr al-Nimr to death. Al-Nimr was detained in July 2012 after demonstrations erupted in Qatif, Eastern Province,...