Performed in Amman at the Souriat Beyond Borders centre for war-wounded Syrians, Romeo and Juliet was produced and directed by Syrian actor Nawar Bulbul.
Middle East Eye speaks to investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed, PhD, about how conflict, socio-economic problems, destabilisation and resource dominance is related to the role of water and the env...
Palestinian-American community leader Rasmea Odeh on Thursday was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison over immigration fraud, a lenient jail term considering the prosecution’s call for her to ...
Which parties will Netanyahu try to pull into the next Israeli government? Who will be in opposition? And what trap has he set for Moshe Kahlon? We talk to Israeli journalist Dimi Reider.
Dimi Reider is an Israeli journalist, blogger and co-founder of +972 Magazine. His work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Haaretz, Dail...
The increasing deprivation of Syrians was highlighted dramatically on Thursday with a satellite photo showing that 83% of the lights in Syria had “gone out.”
Baharka Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp, on the outskirts of Erbil, houses over 1100 displaced Iraqi families. However in one small corner of the camp, 18 Palestinian refugee families resid...
Tens of thousands of Yemenis staged rallies in the provinces of Sana’a, Ibb and Taiz to show solidarity with President Hadi’s dramatic escape from his presidential palace in Sana’a to Aden.
When Syrian protesters were injured in those first demonstrations against the regime in the southern province of Dera’a in March 2011, they didn’t get their wounds stitched up in government hospita...
Yemen’s political coalition parties have three days to end the political deadlock in Yemen or else the Houthi movement says it will take matters into their own hands.
Named by Women’s E-news as being one of the 21 leaders of the 21st century, historian Dr Nina Ansary speaks to Middle East Eye about the women’s movement gaining ground in Iran, opposing forces dom...
Halad al-Ja’ar, father of 22-year-old Sami al-Ja’ar, speaks to MEE about his son’s death. While Israeli police said that he was shot as part of a drug-related operation, Palestinians insist that po...
The Charlie Hebdo killings have sparked off a huge debate worldwide about the limits of press freedom, the right to offend and the threat from international militants.
Moazzam Begg spent nearly three years in the notorious Guantanamo bay detention centre, after being picked up by the secret services in Pakistan in 2002.
On what Yemeni commentators have called a 'day of tragedy,' a car bomb targeted people queuing up to enlist at a police college in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a.
Jabhat Al-Nusra, or the Al-Nusra Front, have since their formation in January 2012 established themselves as one of the most fearsome groups fighting the forces of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
Originally the main rebel group in Syria fighting the Assad government, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have found themselves heavily marginalised by the rise of groups like the Islamic Front, Al-Nusra ...
Thousands of Palestinians on Tuesday attended the funeral of Imam Jamil Dweikat, a Palestinian teenager shot dead by Israeli forces near Nablus in the West Bank on Monday. Dweikat’s family spoke to...
Christians in Gaza prepare to celebrate yet another Christmas under the Israeli imposed siege. Bishop Alexios of Gaza speaks to MEE about his hopes that the siege will one day be lifted so that bot...
Wladimir van Wilgenburg, an analyst for the Jamestown Foundation and a Middle East Eye contributor, speaks to MEE about the gas deals between the Kurdish Regional Government and Iraq, the potential...
Jabhat Al-Nusra, or the Al-Nusra Front, have since their formation in January 2012 established themselves as one of the most fearsome groups fighting the forces of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
A suspected US drone strike in Shabwa province on Saturday, thought to have been launched as part of an attempt to rescue US hostage Luke Somers, killed at least seven people.
33 year-old photojournalist Luke Somers was killed in Yemen on Saturday during a rescue attempt by U.S. and Yemeni forces after being held hostage by Al-Qaeda. In this video filmed by journalist To...
Schools across the Dohuk region of Northern Iraqi Kurdistan are coming to the end of term and thousands of children are yet unable to attend class due to the high influx of refugees in the region. ...
Ahdaf Soueif, Egyptian novelist and activist, talks to Middle East Eye about liberal support for the Abdel Fattah al-Sisi government, the persecution of secular activists in Egypt today and the tri...
The 2011 Egyptian revolution is usually thought of as an uprising against dictatorship and corruption, with the aim of establishing a European or American style democratic system. But underlying th...