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OUR 50 TOP ARABS The research for our annual 50 Top Arabs Report is always an interesting time for us at The Middle East magazine. This year has been particularly memorable since all the voting has been conducted online. Our decision to go digital in...

Violence / Suppression of nonviolent protests / Arrests Israeli forces suppress Christmas march in Bethlehem [with photos] BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 23 Dec — Israeli forces on Tuesday suppressed a peaceful march calling for “Christmas without occupation” in...

May 22 In History 124 BCE :  Simon the Hasmonean, drove the “Greeks” – the Syrians and their Hellenized Jewish allies – out of the citadel which was their last stronghold in Jerusalem. While Jews celebrate Chanukah, it is this victory, 40 years later...

From Ian: New York University’s Students for Justice in Palestine Blames Police Shootings of Blacks on Israel The killings this week of African Americans Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by police have sparked soul-searching and protests across...

Syrian government forces patrol the Khalidiyah neighbourhood of Homs, mid-2013. Photo: AFP/Getty Images You would think that, having stayed in Cairo for much of the last year, I would feel closer than in New York or Boston to the Syrian catastrophe...