Middle East Experience

Trump's suspension was effective from the initial date in January and will only be reinstated if conditions permit, Facebook said in a blog post.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Facebook suspends former US President Trump's account until 2023

The past few days have seen multiple fires break out throughout Israel.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Tzur Hadassah fire under control, evacuated families to return home soon

Iran's powerful Guardian Council said it would review the decision to bar certain candidates from running in this month's presidential election.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Iran reconsidering list of disqualified presidential candidates

Palestinian groups in the Hamas-run territory are angry at a UN official who said he did not doubt that Israeli airstrikes are "precise."
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: UN responds to threats against its Gaza staff

Egypt is looking to China for expertise on water management as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam crisis continues to threaten its water supply.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Egypt turns to China for water advice amid Nile dam crisis

US pressing to maintain humanitarian corridors into Syria; Erdogan’s issues with US Syria policy; UN envoy refers to Syria’s "tragic irony."
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Will Syria come up in Biden-Putin summit?

The Syrian Democratic Forces continue to dig tunnels on the demarcation lines with the Turkey-backed opposition factions in northeast Syria, fearing a military operation.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: SDF digs tunnels in northeast Syria in case of Turkish offensive

Egypt signed an agreement worth 145 million euros ($177 million) with the African Development Bank as part of its recent plan to improve its railway system to prevent crashes.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Can modernization of Egypt’s railway network avert train accidents?

Iran’s supreme leader Friday urged voters to turn out for this month’s presidential election, warning that staying away would mean doing the work of the “enemies of Islam”..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Khamenei equates abstentionists with ‘enemies of Islam’

Tunisia’s Qalb Tounes party leader and media executive Nabil Karoui will start a hunger strike in jail in protest over his continued “arbitrary detention despite the end of the legally mandated period of pre-trial custody,” his lawyers said Saturday..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Tunisian media mogul Nabil Karoui announces hunger strike in jail