Tag: Near and Middle East
‘We are simply avenging our martyrs’: In Jerusalem, bloody days and fear of escalation
In Silwan, below the Esplanade of the Mosques, surveillance cameras scrutinize every street corner, providing all the country’s media with chilling images of Saturday morning’s attack. Hiding behind a yellow…
“We risk our lives to go to school”: in Afghanistan, the resistance goes through women
For Mahjub Habibi, 31, going out alone is an ordeal. Pride too. Because in the Afghanistan of the Taliban, who came to power on August 15, 2021, it is prohibited.…
“The Iranian regime must disappear”: meeting with the nephew of Ayatollah Khamenei
The family resemblance is not immediate. With his slight Ch’ti accent, blue tie, clean-shaven face and good nature, Mahmoud Moradkhani shares few similarities with his uncle, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.…
Israel: attack on a synagogue in East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip bombed
In the aftermath of the Israeli raids that killed ten Palestinians in the West Bank, tension is at its peak this Friday, January 27. The day was marked by Israeli…
Burning of a Koran: this affair which poisons Sweden’s membership in NATO
“It’s the straw that broke the camel’s back”, for the Turkish pro-government daily Sabah. On January 21, Rasmus Paludan, a Danish-Swedish right-wing extremist, who has a habit of insulting Muslims,…
Repression, religion and subsidies: Erdogan’s plan to win the presidential election
The countdown has begun for the most important election of 2023. During a speech last Wednesday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan released the fateful date of the presidential election in Turkey: it…
Gay, Sephardi and conservative: in Israel, a speaker of Parliament who clashes
In Jerusalem, on December 29, Israeli democracy is swimming in the midst of a paradox. At the end of the morning, thousands of LGBT activists demonstrate in front of the…
NATO: Turkey and Hungary, two “black sheep” which exasperate the Allies
All smiles, Jens Stoltenberg could hardly seem more optimistic than last July. At the time, the Secretary General of NATO boasted of the rebirth of the Atlantic Alliance in the…
Dubai: how the city-state is trying to restore its image
“One day, my jacket slipped from my bag. Two hours later, I returned to the place where I thought I had lost it. A passer-by had folded it up and…
Syria: how Bashar El-Assad is preparing his comeback on a field of ruins and corpses
Step by step, in the still smoking ruins of Syria, Bashar El-Assad traces his path, without worrying about the corpses on the side. After twelve years of war, more than…