Middle East Experience

The car the three men were in was riddled with gunfire in a rare daytime operation in the West Bank..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: West Bank: Three Palestinian militants killed in Israeli operation

Banking association said proposals set out in the draft plan would cause a long loss of confidence in the financial sector..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Banks in Lebanon object to proposals in draft government plan

President Kais Saied’s moves to shut down Tunisia’s High Judicial Council, an independent judicial oversight body set up after the country’s 2011 revolution to shield judges from government influence, pose a serious threat to judicial independence and fair trial rights in the country, Amnesty International said today. In videotaped remarks to Tunisia’s interior minister and ..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Tunisia: President’s moves to shut down High Judicial Council poses ‘grave threat’ to human rights

Women carried placards denouncing the “exploitation of women’s issues” by parliament and government..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Kuwaiti women protest against suspension of yoga retreat

Something undemocratic and untoward happened inside the police with the Pegasus affair. A top-down reform plan needs to be the repsonse.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Israel's Pegasus-gate: Police must reform for democracy's sake - comment

Do you think your phone is being targeted? These signs could help you determine if you are and here's what you can do about it.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: NSO's Pegasus: How to know you're being tracked - and how to stop it

At least one child has been killed and three injured by the Asayish, the Syrian Kurdish Autonomous Administration’s police force, who opened fire in al-Hol camp yesterday, Amnesty International has confirmed. Three women were injured as well. The Asayish, which controls the sprawling camp in Syria’s north-east and keeps it closed off to outsiders, has ..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Syria: Fatal shooting of a child in al-Hol camp must be a call to international action

This culture of jailing average soldiers while commanders don’t suffer consequences is problematic. It is especially the case considering that Israel has a mandatory draft.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: IDF's long history of shielding senior officers from punishment

In many ways, the assassinations in Nablus serves the interests of Fatah and Abbas.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Abbas's embattled Fatah seeks to score points with Palestinians

Technion students are beginning to write articles for Wikipedia to add to free knowledge in science, technology, and mathematics.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Technion shares academic knowledge in Wikipedia entries