By Hany Al Banna | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – March 15, 2021, will mark a grim milestone—the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the popular uprising that led to the civil war still engulfing Syria. As we all grapple with the deadly crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic that has gripped the world’s […]
Why Google’s Plans for a Saudi-Based Cloud are So Dangerous: Riyadh may demand Private Customer Data
By Dahlia Kholaif | – ( Global Voices ) – Tech giant Google plans to establish a new Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia. Access Now, a nongovernmental digital rights organization, has raised alarm and requested the immediate halting of the plan, referring to the country’s “appalling human rights record.” The organization issued a statement […]
Saudi women’s activist Loujain al-Hathloul released and tweeting
By Dahlia Kholaif | – ( Global Voices) – Loujain al-Hathloul, the prominent Saudi activist and campaigner who had been detained since 2018 for demanding an end to the male guardianship system and to the ban on women's driving, was released last week and posted her first tweet since on Wednesday. Returning with a heart […]
Protests mount over Israeli medical apartheid toward Palestine during pandemic”
Editors note: This post was written by Pam Bailey, founder and executive director of We Are Not Numbers, a platform that carries the voices of Palestinians under Israeli occupation, through empowering and mentoring young, local journalists. ( Globalvoices.org ) – Protests are growing as Israel becomes the country with the highest per-capita COVID-19 vaccination rate,while […]
Will Biden Wind down the Syria War or keep it Bubbling?
By Sylvain Keller | – (Globalvoices.org ) – As the four-year term of US President Donald Trump nears its end, what will the new administration mean for Syria’s dragging war and its embattled population? Although Trump officially ordered a comprehensive US withdrawal of troops from Syria over the last four years, the civil war remains […]
Will Tunisia, the only Success of the Arab Spring, be Ruined by a Police Protection Bill?
By Rima Sghaier | – ( Global Voices ) – As the Tunisian parliament considers a controversial police protection bill, protests erupted in the city of Bardo to oppose it. On October 6 and 8, human rights groups and a youth-led citizen movement dubbed Hasebhom (translated as “hold them to account”) rallied outside the parliament […]
Can Turkey’s Feminists prevent withdrawal in name of “Family Values” from Treaty banning Violence against Women?
By Arzu Geybullayeva | – (GlobalVoices.org ) – A website called Anit Sayac (Turkish for “monument tracker”) indicates the number “276” on its home page at the time of writing this story. It represents the number of women who were murdered in domestic violence attacks in Turkey—just in 2020. The counter is updated every day. […]
In northern Syria, COVID-19 Threatens Escalation of an already Dramatic Humanitarian Crisis
By Mousa Mohamed | – Translated by Mariam Abuadas | – ( GlobalVoices.org ) – The ongoing armed conflict in Syria has displaced over 1.6 million people who have fled mostly to the north of the country. The resulting catastrophic humanitarian crisis is now worsened by the impact of COVID-19 in the region. Photo of […]
Information warfare: COVID-19’s other battleground in the Middle East
By Saoussen Ben Cheikh | – ( Globalvoices.org) – COVID-19 has exacerbated existing political tensions in the Middle East and North Africa, a region already marred by decades of conflict. Now, unscrupulous politicians blame their political enemies or neighboring governments for the spread of the novel coronavirus. Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros […]
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