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Dubai Airports will ban single-use plastics from consumer spaces at the world's busiest international airport from January 1 2020. While over the past six months alone it has recycled over [...]

As the political and economic crisis continues in Lebanon, the country's artists and designers are struggling to make sense of the worsening conditions. Designers Tessa (left) and Tara Sakhi (right), [...]

A fascinating account by Washington Times reporter Joby Warrick, featured in the paper today (28.04.18), appears to cast new light over ongoing fracas between Qatar and some of its GCC [...]

As the war against the Islamic State (ISIS) intensifies, a survey of young Arabs, a major source of recruitment by the jihadists, and a trove of ISIS personnel records, which [...]

Corona virus lockdown did not discourage 27 year old singer/songwriter Hanan Kamal from posting a music video of her singing a cover of Youth, originally released by the band Daughter, [...]

Data from the National Centre for Statistics and Information shows that at the end of September 2018, non-oil exports amounted to OMR2.952bn($7.677bn), up from OMR2.361bn($6.14bn) in September 2017, an increase [...]

The Middle East Online has reported on how Lebanon's environmental catastrophe has resulted in widespread health problems and caused friction between the indigenous Lebanese population and, what is now, well [...]

The London appeal court judges ruled that a Libyan man can sue the United Kingdom government over claims he was illegally sent back to Libya to be tortured by the [...]

Egypt says it will instruct a law firm in the UK to file a civil suit over the sale last week of a Tutankhamun bust. The sculpture of the pharaoh [...]

Satellite imagery is proving crucial in helping the environment by estimating the amount of carbon sequestration in data palms, according to researchers at the United Arab Emirates University. The major [...]

UAE malls and retail firm Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) has launched a 'sail thru' Carrefour store concept to serve yachts and beachgoers in Dubai. 'Carrefour Bites and More by the [...]

The Arab Spring began five years ago when two men set themselves on fire in Tunisia. One of them survived his self-immolation--and now wishes he hadn't. His story, written by [...]

Lebanon's Nadine Labaki made history at this year's world famous Cannes Film Festival by becoming the first female Arab filmmaker to win a major prize in competition. She collected the [...]

Pat Lancaster talks to Karl Rollke, President and CEO of Canamara, the Canadian based titanium-mining company that plans to take the world's metals markets by storm, Middle East investors are being invited to participate in an exciting new mining venture in the Canadian province of Quebec, which holds the promise of significant financial reward, together with [...]

As the Middle East is convulsed by unparalleled upheaval, and faces a sectarian war between the Sunni and Shia Islam that could have cataclysmic consequences, it is no surprise that [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, the agonising suspense is over: Bashar-al-Assad has beaten off stiff competition to secure a third seven-year term as Syria's president. How do we know the election was [...]

Do not waste by excess, for Allah does not love the wasters' says the Holy Koran. Yet the recycling industry in the mostly Muslim Middle East still does very little [...]

Israel has announced its plans - in flagrant defiance of international law - to seize control of more Palestinian lands to build industrial zones, in a bid to boost Israel's [...]

About five years ago, Turkey was the shining star of the Muslim world, gaining praise from both East and West. It was a booming economy and rising democracy that had [...]

Egypt and Sudan are outraged by a new hydro-electric dam construction project on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia that threatens to endanger agricultural productivity across huge swathes of Arab land. [...]

On Dec. 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin completed a diplomatic sprint, touring Syria, Egypt and Turkey in just one day. While the latter two visits were announced by the Kremlin [...]

Libya's two main rival leaders have agreed to call a ceasefire and hold elections early next year after a meeting in Paris hosted by the French president, Emmanuel Macron. Macron [...]

A court in Saudi Arabia has commuted the death sentences handed to five people convicted over the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, state media report. Prosecutors said they were given [...]

The US should neither increase its troop presence in Iraq nor intervene militarily. America has twice tried--and failed--to reshape the country according to its own projects and principles; and has [...]

It is difficult to believe anything more catastrophic could befall Iraq with perhaps three million dead, between the strangulating 1990 onward embargo and the illegal 2003 invasion. Nearly five million [...]

Iranians who wish to travel to European Union nations face myriad challenges, in particular obtaining visas. Indeed, the state of political relations between Tehran and the EU states has made [...]

After years of consultations and controversy, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and Israel have been told by the World Bank that their Peace Conduit project, intended to replenish the sinking Dead [...]

War, corruption and lawlessness in principal markets of the Middle East have created a hotbed for thriving trade in counterfeit, dangerous and often lethal pharmaceuticals supplying an authoritatively estimated, catastrophic [...]

There were no surprises in Egypt's elections in May. Former general Abdel Fattah el-Sisi won with a large majority - his election was all but assured, given the lack of [...]

While the 5th Fleet remains secure at its moorings in Bahrain, pro-Shi'a (and pro-Iranian) activists are pressing members of Congress to insert themselves into Bahrain's sensitive domestic debate. The proposed [...]

Once Abdelaziz Boutef lika announced--via press release--his intention to run for a fourth term despite visible signs of ill health and old age, a potentially interesting presidential campaign immediately became [...]