Tag: Middle East
“Seeing other women take off their hijab gave me hope”
A social media campaign has called on women in Iran to go bareheaded on their daily commute on Tuesday, July 12. Videos of women without veils have flooded the web.…
In Jerusalem, Joe Biden pledges to do everything to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons
The United States is ready to use all elements of their national power in order to prevent Iran from acquiring atomic weapons, underlines a declaration signed Thursday in Jerusalem by…
Hezbollah leader threatens Israel with war if it exploits Karish gas field
The Hezbollah leader explicitly threatened a war if Israel began extracting gas from the Karish field, disputed by Lebanon, without prior agreement on the course of the maritime border between…
women are mobilizing against the tightening of the obligation to wear the veil
For several weeks, the authorities have launched a new campaign to enforce the Islamic veil outside but also in banks and administrations. Faced with these hardenings, women called to demonstrate…
in the face of new dress rules, women called upon to go out without a hijab
Iranian women are called to go out in the street without hijab this Tuesday, July 12. A movement launched on social networks by several activists while the repression of the…
arrest of famous filmmaker Jafar Panahi
Arrests of dissident filmmakers and opposition political activists have increased in recent days. The filmmaker Jafar Panahi, Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin festival in 2015, was arrested…
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict behind the sale of ice cream
It is the extension of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through ice cream. The American ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s has filed a complaint against its parent company, Unilever, in an…
in Mosul, civil society is mobilizing for reconstruction
Iraq is celebrating five years since the liberation of Mosul this weekend. The country’s second city had been occupied by the Islamic State from 2014 to 2017, and completely destroyed…
Ahead of Biden’s visit, Israelis and Palestinians reconnect
It hadn’t happened for a long time: contacts at the highest level between Israelis and Palestinians. A “rapprochement” which is mainly linked to the arrival of US President Joe Biden…
Iran accuses two French trade unionists of “undermining state security”
The spokesperson for Iranian justice affirmed that the two trade unionists arrested on May 11 are accused of attempting to undermine national security, while France has formally advised its nationals…