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MBC GROUP unveils MBCNOW, its brand-new groundbreaking entertainment service aggregator MBC GROUP’s revolutionary platform is set to offer a new era of digital and traditional content consumption across the region, bringing together the best of entertainment including MBC’s award-winning TV channels and Shahid, the world’s leading Arabic streaming platform. To celebrate launch, MBCNOW arrives with…
Israeli Settlement Expansion Continues for Fifth Consecutive Week: Plans to Advance 765 New Housing Units On Wednesday, January 1, 2025, the Higher Planning Council (HPC) will convene to discuss the approval of a construction plan for 765 housing units in the settlement of Beitar Illit. Since December 2024, the HPC has been advancing housing construction…
A recipe on how to make Stuffed Grape Leaves with lamb, ox tail and rice #Read @RayHanania I love #MiddleEastern #Arab food recipes in addition to politics. Here’s my how to make Stuffed #GrapeLeaves with diced #lamb #steak #wariqDuwali #OxTail and #rice Read Ray Hanania’s columns on politics, life in general, and his love for…
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Book Review: Arab author shares his anecdotes living in the United Kingdom Arab Author and newspaper editor Faisal J. Abbas shares his experience of life in Great Britain, a nation that has had so much influence over the modern evolution of the Arab World, in his new book Anecdotes of an Arab Anglophile By Ray…
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ADC issues condemnation: Impending Massacres by Israel must be stopped The Israeli regime is outdoing themselves in the genocide of Palestinians. Over the past few days hospitals across Gaza have been forced to evacuate. Patients inside the hospitals, including babies in intensive care incubators, face death as they are forced to move across an obliterated…
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UN Officials call for end of violence 7 October: UN experts call for end of violence and accountability after year of human loss and suffering and blatant disregard for international law Marking the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, the Israeli attack against the Palestinian population in Gaza that followed and consequent expansion of violence…
Palestinians face darkest period in history, Prime Minister tells UN assembly By Ray Hanania Palestine National Authority (PNA) Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa warned members of the United Nations Monday that his people face one of the worst assaults of violence in its history. An economist by profession who was appointed prime minister in March of…
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UNRWA faces heightened challenges in Palestinian refugee needs By Ray Hanania Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner -General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), told the UN General Assembly Monday the agency is being falsely accused of committing “a breach of the (UN) Charter and international law” and warned the future of the Palestinians…
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AHRC calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon The American Human Rights Council (AHRC-USA) condemns in the strongest words the ongoing Israeli indiscriminate bombardment of Lebanon. Under the pretext of fighting Hezbollah, Israel has been targeting civilians in heavily populated residential areas. Israelis have been threatening that they intend to demolish Lebanon. Just…
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US sanctions Israeli extremist settler group Hashomer Yosh in West Bank as Gaza holocaust rages Extremist settler violence in the West Bank causes intense human suffering, harms Israel’s security, and undermines the prospect for peace and stability in the region, a statement released by the White House announced on Wednesday, August 28, 2024. It is…
MSF opens field hospital in Deir al-Balah as frontline inches closer to Al-Aqsa Hospital as Gaza Holocaust worsens Field hospitals cannot replace the health care system that Israel has dismantled in Gaza. Following an evacuation order issued by Israeli forces and a recent explosion near the MSF-supported Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza…
Israel’s racist government denies water to Christians and Muslims in East Jerusalem Adalah Petitions Israeli Supreme Court Over Severe Water Shortages in Kufr ‘Aqab, a Palestinian Neighborhood in Occupied East Jerusalem. The petition, filed on behalf of 204 residents, argues that the Israeli authorities’ failure to provide a continuous and adequate water supply undermines the…
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Expert denounces killing of two more journalists in Gaza and demands full accountability An independent human rights expert today condemned the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul and cameraman Rami Al-Rifi in Gaza on 1 August 2024. “I strongly denounce the deliberate targeting by Israel of two journalists in Gaza, which adds to an…
Israeli bill to designate UNRWA a terrorist organization is an attack on humanitarian aid Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns a bill that passed a preliminary reading yesterday in Israel’s Parliament, known as the Knesset, aimed at designating UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East,…
Ziyad partners with SimSim Middle Eastern Recipes App SimSim Middle Eastern App brings authentic, delicious recipes at your fingertips, and walks you through creating them with ease and great taste using Ziyad recipes as a resource. Downloadable from any App store Cicero, IL. — Ziyad Brand is partnering with the popular Middle Eastern food App,…
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CPJ calls for investigation into Israeli shooting at 2 Al-Araby TV journalists in West Bank Israeli forces fired at camera operator Rabih Al-Monayar (left) and reporter Ameed Shehade while they were reporting on an Israeli raid for Al-Araby TV in the West Bank city of Tulkarm on May 4, 2024. (Screenshot: Al-Araby TV/YouTube) The Committee…
Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: Rafah threat is inhumane, says UN Human Rights Chief UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Monday, May 6, 2024, warned that civilian deaths, suffering and destruction were set to increase beyond already unbearable levels followingIsrael’s orders to Palestinians to evacuate parts of Rafah ahead of an anticipated new offensive….
Testimonies from the Occupied Palestinian Territory show new depths of Israel’s atrocities: UN expert The Occupied Palestinian Territory is enveloped in a spiral of unstoppable violence, with stories Palestinians and other witnesses relay adding new depths to atrocities the world has witnessed since the beginning of Israel’s assault on Gaza over six months ago, the…