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The following letter was issued by the Middle East Studies Association on 10 February 2022 in response to the Egyptian government's detention of translators Kholoud Said and Marwa Arafa.

As Turkey’s elections are over and Erdogan is consolidating his power in the new presidential system, Academics for Peace continue facing trials for signing the Peace Petition in January 2016. The petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime” was a response to human rights violations by..

Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat discusses the violence that has besieged Palestinian protestors by the Israeli Defense Forces, a brief history of Palestinian protest, as well as Israel's continued enforcement of an apartheid system that regulates Palestinian lives without providing them rights...

“Capitalism protects politicians and politicians protect capitalism, and both are cowards.”
- Taieb Henchir, Manich Msamah member, discussing the Economic Reconciliation Law.

On 19 July 2017 the Tunisian parliament approved seven articles of the

[The following report was published by the Gulf Center for Human Rights on 24 April 2017.]

Oman: Internal Security Service Continues Systematic Targeting..

To Mahmoud Abbas’s credit, he has shown more interest in convening the General Conference, the supreme body of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) than did his predecessor Yasir Arafat. In 2009, albeit almost five years af..

On 22 March 2016, Yıldıray Oğur, a pro-government media figure, wrote a column targeting the Academics for Pe..

"Bread, freedom, social justice”; “Down, down with Hosni Mubarak”; “We’re not leaving, he must leave”; “The people want the downfall of the regime.” It is difficult to reflect on the famous slogans that awakened the consciousness of an entire nation four years ago and view them as anything but a..

On Friday, 22 August, officials at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) broke their silence regarding the firing of Steven Salaita (for more background on the case, see here<..

Mahienour al-Massry, imprisoned on charges based on the Protest Law, writes from her prison cell:

Khaled Said`s anniversary has passed without reviving his memory, while at the same time one of Mubarak`s men has been in..

Fifth Edition of the 2B Continued Festival and Theatre Laboratory

January 2014

Falaki Theatre, Cairo

Studio Emad Eddin began 2B Continued Festival and Theatre Laboratory in 2008 to support the work of local theatre directors and contemporary da..

[The following statement was issued by the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association on 9 December 2012.]

On 10 December, the world celebrates the Human Rights Day, which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1950 to review the international achieve..

[The following report was originally published as "Saudi Crackdown: One Month Later" by Migrant Rights on 6 December 2013.]

Saudi Arabia’s..

On Friday 25 November 2011, one week after the Mohamed Mahmoud events, I was standing near one of the entrances to the Sadat metro station, its tunnels spreading beneath Tahrir Square like a spider’s web. I saw a man wearing a heavy brown galabeya turn to a man walk..

The Ministry of Interior is instructed to "deal with Muslim Brotherhood members" after the curfew, Sherif Shawky, media advisor to the Cabinet told Al-Hayat television channel. 

"We are facing terrorism but we want to calm down the people. Forces are present," Shaw..

Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi announced early Monday evening he would finalize his selection of ministers by Tuesday, and they would be sworn in to his Cabinet on Wednesday at the latest.

Some of the newly appointed ministers — which so far exclude Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist figures..

[The following report on the disappearance of Emirati Al Islah movement member Abdulwahed Al Shuhi appeared on

[The following statement was issued by Alkarama, the Collective of Families of Disappeared Persons in ..

On 12 March, Adel Khadri, a twenty-seven year old cigarette street vendor, set himself on fire on Tunis’ main street, Habib Bourguiba Avenue. According to eyewitnesses, Khadri shouted: “This is a young man who sells cigarettes because of u..

[The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) issued the following press release on 22 January 2013.] 

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its ..

[This report was originally issued by the Gulf Center for Human Rights on 16 January 2013.]

Oman - Prominent human rights defender Saed Jadad arrested and detained

The Gulf..

[This report was originally issued by the Gulf Center for Human Rights on 5 January 2013.]

Urgent Action: UAE - Number of human rights defenders & activi..

[The following is a report by the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) regarding today’s sentencing of Rola Al-Saffar and Ibrahim Al-Demistani.]

The Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) expresses its great concern t..

[On Tuesday, 9 October, Tunisian blogger and activist, Lina Ben Mhenni, was awarded the "Prix alsacien de l`engagement démocratique" for her activities and involvement during the Tunisian Revolution. She blogs at A Tunisian Girl..