Salman Rushdie: Did a ‘chance’ airport meeting lead to fatwa?
“I met a minister, a cabinet minister at the airport. In the VIP lounge, he asked me about the Satanic Verses and about Rushdie. And I told him what I…
Women with hijab found to face bias in Egypt
Visiting restaurants or buying homes can be problems for headscarf wearers, BBC News Arabic finds. Source link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-62678403?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Turkish pop star Gulsen Colakoglu jailed after a joke about religious schools in Turkey
The charges appear to be related to a video circulating on social media from a Gulsen concert in April, when she joked about one of the musicians. He “graduated from…
Forty years on, Hezbollah is isolated but more powerful than ever
Many countries including the United States, United Kingdom and Germany as well as Gulf Arab states and the Arab League, have labeled the entire group a terrorist organization, while the…
Iran: Women attend first league match for 40 years
The rare move for Iran to allow women into stadiums where men are playing followed appeals by Fifa. Source link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-62678408?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Darayya massacre: 'You can't imagine how terrified we were'
A report details new evidence about a massacre of civilians in the Syrian town of Darayya in 2012. Source link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-62677520?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Beirut: Further part of grain silos collapses 2 years after blast
The northern section of the grain silos damaged in a major 2020 blast in Beirut has collapsed. Two other parts fell in late July and early August – some two…
Ben & Jerry’s fails to stop sales in Israeli settlements
Ben & Jerry’s decision was welcomed by Palestinian activists behind the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which calls for a complete boycott of Israel over its treatment of the…
Qatar deports migrant workers after wage protest
Sixty workers protested about not being paid – some will be deported for “breaching security laws”. Source link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-62645350?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Four ways the Ukraine war has impacted the Middle East
But in other ways, some of the region’s countries have prospered immensely as the fighting rages on, adding hundreds of billions of dollars to their coffers. Here are four ways…