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Israeli soldiers on Tuesday killed twenty-seven-year-old Ahmed Erekat at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank as he was on his way to pick up his sister, who was set to be married that night. Ahmed Erekat is the nephew of senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palest..

In this broad-ranging and incisive STATUS/الوضع interview with journalist and filmmaker Safa Al Ahmad, she delves into her recent coverage of Yemen reflecting on the humanitarian disaster there,..

A fifteen-year-old high school student was killed in Alexandria on Friday during clashes between Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated protesters and security forces, Health Ministry Secretary Ayman Abdel Moneim told the state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram.

Sondos Reda Abu Bakr was shot to death w..

Berkin Elvan’s funeral services, which were held at the Okmeydani Cemevi on 12 March, once again raised the question of why all six youths killed during the Gezi Protests—or, if we are to approach the Gezi process within a broader framework, why seven out of eight youths killed—were Alevîs. Inde..

A police officer and passerby were killed in a drive-by shooting in Cairo Friday, Al-Ahram reported, as protests kicked off across the country by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi.

A security source at the Ministry of Interior said that unknown assailants in two cars opened fir..

"You want to see the bodies? Ok then, here!" the man working at the morgue said, holding me and a friend by the arm and practically pushing us into a humid room filled with bodies, lying on slabs or on the floor and in various states of decay. We had been at the morgue for over an hour..

[It is reported widely that the death toll has risen to more than 125]

At least fifty-one people were killed in clashes between supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi and the Armed Forces around the Republican Guards headquarters early Monday morning, the Ministry of Health reported.<..

Unknown militants killed a priest in north Sinai on Saturday, the state-run Middle East News Agency reported. 

The thirty-nine year old priest, Mina Aboud, was walking in the street in a neighborhood south of Arish when he was shot. He had died as he was transferred to hospital.&..

[The following report was issued by the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies on 10 May 2013.]

Youth Unemployment in Lebanon: Skilled and Jobless

[The following list was issued by Drones Watch on 20 January 2013. The names were compiled from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports.]

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[The following statement was issued by the EU Turkey Civic Commission on 9 January 2013.]

In Memory of Our Friends: Sakine Canziz, Fidan Dogan, and Leyla Söylemez

It was with shock and grief we received the horrible news abo..

Another dawn raid by armed security forces on Tahrir Square leaves more dead protesters as Egyptian army faces more local and international criticism for violent crackdown on dissent.

A fifteen-year-old boy is in critical condition and there are unconfirmed reports of another four ca..

Two protesters shot dead by security forces during attack on Tahrir Square, one dies in detention.

Military police and Central Security Forces (CSF) killed three protestors in a failed attempt to clear protesters from Tahrir Square on Sunday night.

Protesters accused se..

A funeral march for Emad Effat, a prominent Azhar cleric shown on video dying of gunshot wound sustained during attack by military police on the Cabinet protest, buries a new martyr.

The funeral procession for Emad Effat, member of the Dar Al-Ifta religious authority, who died on ..

I never knew Vittorio “Vik” Arrigoni before his tragic death in Gaza City on 15 April 2011. I won’t pretend to piece together who Vik was or what lay behind his passions. But before he slips from the headlines to the footnotes, it is worth attempting to make an accounting of this terrible death ..

Hani Abdul-Aziz Abdullah Jumah, 32,  is the nineteenth victim to fall prey to the Bahraini security forces` brutal attack on peaceful bystanders and protesters. Hani was killed on Saturday March 19th, 2011, but his family, w..