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This article is about a Turkish women and her family trying to cope with Turkey’s crackdown. She is the wife of an imprisoned journalist named Kadri Gursel who works for the newspaper called Cumhuriyet. Many of the journalist working for … Continue reading →

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/24/how-a-constitutional-amendment-could-end-turkeys-republic/  On January 21st the Turkish parliament approved a amendment to their constitution changing the government from parliamentary to presidential. It went through parliament because of deal Erdogan (AKP party) made with MHP nationalist party. The amendment will go popular … Continue reading →

In 2012,  former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was accused of ordering security forces to shoot 239 citizens in the 2011 uprising to remove him from office.  Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012, but in 2014 was retried, leading … Continue reading →

Saudi Arabia hosts the country’s first Comic Con as a part of their “Vision 2030” program which hopes to diversify the economy. The article focuses on the gender mixing of the event, and it is rare for a government sponsored … Continue reading →

The election of Yehya al-Sinwar (one of the founders of the Hamas’ Military Wing) has analysts predicting that there will be increased tension between Gaza and Israel, and perhaps future conflicts. The election indicates that there is growing influence among the military … Continue reading →

The fez was a red hat with a tassel coming out of the top. The fez became the uniform of the Ottoman bureaucrats and a symbol of Ottoman modernity. Over time the fez became seen as part of an “Oriental” cultural … Continue reading →

Trump announced his strong support for the Jewish state, he abandoned the idea that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will come with two state solution. Trump then spoke of the possibility of an Arab-backed peace process, an idea that’s … Continue reading →

  https://www.google.com/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/38951539?client=safari This article looks at recent changes in the focus of Saudi Arabia as it begins to prepare for a future where it can no longer depend on oil revenue. It also examines the ongoing, if slow , social … Continue reading →

The article is about a Human Rights Watch reporting that Syrian officials used chemical weapons to attempt to take back areas outside of their control in Aleppo. Chlorine bombs were dropped in civilian residential areas, killing nine and injuring over … Continue reading →

Russia and Syria have jointly led the use of bombings against ISIS operations in the Aleppo region for the past few years.  In the bombing campaigns, multiple hospitals such as M10 in Aleppo’s al-Sakhour neighborhood and M2 in the al-Maadi … Continue reading →