Algeria’s army chief of staff has rejected an initiative by nationalist figures that could have offered a breakthrough in the stalemate in the country
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Calls to boycott Algeria’s presidential elections scheduled for July are gaining momentum
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Algerians on both sides of the divide are grappling with the country’s future after the resignation of former president Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika
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Algeria’s president Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika has resigned following an ultimatum by the army chief of staff
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Tarek Al-Bishri tells Amira Howeidy of the lasting significance of the 1919 Revolution
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A US federal court in Arkansas has ruled in favour of criminalising the boycott of Israel while the Senate is voting to advance a federal anti-BDS bill
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Bills to criminalise the boycotting of Israel in the United States have failed to pass the US Senate thus far, but efforts seem set to continue
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The centenary of Egypt’s 1919 Revolution will see many recalling its events and historical outcomes. But 1918 was almost as crucial a year, as the memoirs of revolutionary leader Saad Zaghloul explain
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Born in Canada, former PLO legal advisor Diana Buttu grew up shielded from the trauma of her parent's displacement- only to come of age between the two Intifadas, as she tells Amira Howeidy
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Palestinian gazelle leaps to the other side
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Hamas and Cairo are trying to salvage the reconciliation agreement with extended talks and a roadmap
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Al-Ahram Weekly chronicles events leading to the Balfour declaration in 1917 and its catastrophic consequences for Palestinians and the region
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The arrest of a prominent Palestinian rights defender by the PA has invited criticism of President Abbas’s growing authoritarianism
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Palestinian prisoners in Israel ended a mass hunger strike this week, claiming victory in the struggle for better conditions and basic rights
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On the 69th anniversary of the 1948 Palestinian 'Nakba', Ahram Online republishes a review of of Salman Abu Sitta's Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir, Cairo: AUC Press, 2016. pp318
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Did the resignation of ESCWA’s chief over a UN report describing Israel as an apartheid state let the genie out of the bottle?
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