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At a football stadium in Diyarbakir, Turkey’s largest Kurdish-majority city, the voice of a Kurdish soprano entrances a sea of fans in red, green, and white jerseys. Thousands of supporters came to Diyarbakir Stadium on 11 May to celebrate Amedspor’s Turkish Football Federation (TFF) second-league title win and promotion to TFF 1. A championship win is a moment to savour for any club. But for Amedspor, victory is all the more sweet. The past ten years have been nothing short of a slog for the club. Since a name and ownership change in 2014, the club has been the target of rival fan violence an...
The New Arab
On 11 May, CNN exposed Israel’s harrowing treatment of dozens of Gazan prisoners held hostage in the Sde Teiman desert camp-turned-detention centre. In the report, which stirred widespread condemnation, whistle-blowers revealed that Gazan hostages were subjected to “extreme physical restraint” and “stripped down of anything that resembles human beings”. When The New Arab interviewed several of the 76 Gazan prisoners released just days after the CNN report was published, it became apparent that these abuses were not exclusive to that one prison. Sami al-Ghoula, a 53-year-old father of eight, de...
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There are growing concerns in Egypt over a newly-declared Sinai-based alliance of 30 Bedouin tribes, with questions being raised about the timing, and purpose, of its formation. Led by controversial businessman Ibrahim Al-Organi (also spelt Arjani or Argani), the Union of Arab Tribes was officially announced on 1 May during a large celebration in the once-restive North Sinai province in the presence of state officials, parliamentarians, tribal leaders, businessmen, and public figures. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been designated as "the honorary chairman" of the group, which was...
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The Lebanese Sunni military group the Al-Fajr Forces has reemerged in recent months after a long hiatus, joining the fight against Israel alongside Hezbollah on the Israel-Lebanon border. The Al-Fajr Forces - established in 1982 - are the military wing of Jamaa Islamiya, a Lebanese Sunni Muslim organisation also known as the "Islamic Group in Lebanon". Jamaa Islamiya's involvement in the border clashes has raised questions about the revival of the Al-Fajr Forces and whether they will continue to have a role once Israel's war on Gaza ends. "Jamaa Islamiya's participation has been mixed in Leban...
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Tulkarem, occupied West Bank \- Since the start of the war on Gaza, Israel has ramped up attacks on refugee camps in the occupied West Bank, with Nur Shams in Tulkarem experiencing the lion’s share of the violence. “Israel has executed 22 military operations in the camp since the war began, the first of which was on October 19. This number is notably high when compared to preceding months,” Sulaiman Al-Zuhairi, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Khadouri University in Tulkarem and a researcher on Palestinian refugee camps, told The New Arab. The surge in attacks on this particular camp is pa...
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The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have encircled and besieged El Fasher in North Darfur in recent weeks, but fears of an all-out assault on the city have not yet materialised. El Fasher remains the last capital city in Darfur's five states where the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) maintain a garrison following their 13-month-long war against the RSF. A defeat for the SAF and former Darfur rebel groups fighting alongside it would formalise the loss of the army's control over approximately one-third of the nation's territory. Residents of the city are living in a state of heightened fear as armed clash...
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When casually swiping on dating apps in Israel, users are frequently inundated with images of soldiers in Gaza. “It's like every third profile at least,” Karmen, who only wanted her first name used, told The New Arab. Karmen is now collecting screenshots of soldiers’ dating profiles and shared some of the pictures with TNA. The images range from soldiers smiling in uniform and brandishing rifles in front of sunsets to more sadistic content like soldiers snapping selfies next to rubble. Israelis have long showcased their military service on dating apps, but the scale and severity of the photos ...
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Violent scenes from Columbia University, UCLA, and dozens of other US campuses have made global headlines over the past few weeks, with 52 universities across the US seeing pro-Palestine action and encampments. Much of the spotlight has been focused on Columbia University, where a student protest and encampment has been ongoing for nearly two weeks, demanding that the university divest from companies with ties to Israel amidst an ongoing war on Gaza that has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians. “What we’re seeing is a historic student uprising in the US with very few parallels or precedent,” ...
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On 30 March, Yemen's Houthi-led de facto government in Sana’a minted a new100-riyal coin. The unprecedented move came under the pretext of finding a solution to the growing problem of damaged banknotes. Yemeni analysts, however, saw it as yet another step the Iran-backed militia group has taken in an alternative, independent economy it has created, which further threatens ‘peace and stability’ in the war-torn nation. In response to what itdescribed as a “grave escalation,” the Internationally Recognised Government (IRG) in Aden warned citizens not to use the “counterfeit” currency, and in Apri...
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In February, residents of Belyounech in northern Morocco awoke to the sound of bulldozers entering their village accompanied by security forces. Over a dozen homes and villas in the coastal community - home to 5,000 people - were subsequently destroyed. Three days prior, residents had received evacuation notices saying their properties were illegally occupying “public maritime space”. Reportedly part of a campaign by the state to recover, and develop, coastal areas, demolitions like these have been reported across Morocco since December, including in the fishing village of Imsouane and the isl...
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