Middle East Experience

Egypt’s Central Bank has launched a funding initiative to help defaulting factories deal with their debt and bolster production.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Will loan initiative turn around Egypt's struggling factories?

As Lebanon’s economic crisis devastates the housing sector, homeowners are faced with increasing payments and debt tied to the dollar and rising interest rates.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Lebanon’s real estate sector crumbles along with dreams

Despite the secular campaign by Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor Liberman, and despite their atheist upbringing, a significant number of Jews who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union have become religious.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israelis from Russia: A voyage from atheism to religion

As Syria's currency plunges against the dollar, the opposition's Syrian Interim Government plans to replace the Syrian pound with the Turkish lira in the areas it controls.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Will Turkish lira save economy in Syria's opposition-held areas?

Although Adana province banned a raki festival for reasons of safety, locals rushed to the bars to celebrate their culture of raki — accompanied by turnip juice — and kebab.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Southern Turkish city defiant over its raki and kebab

Kuwait formed a new government on Tuesday, state news agency KUNA reported, a month after the previous one resigned due to a row between ruling family members and parliament. Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Kuwait announces new members of government led by Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid

Investigations into violence during protests which led to a number of deaths and injuries have been completed in all provinces except for Dhi Qar, which witnessed some of the worst violence, according
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Investigations into violence against protesters in Dhi Qar still underway

Turkish police on Tuesday detained 181 people suspected of ties to a group blamed for a 2016 coup attempt, the Ankara public prosecutor’s office said. The detentions came after the capital&rsquo
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Turkey detains nearly 200 over Gulen links

Assailants attacked several protest camps in north and south Lebanon early on Tuesday, according to state-run media, demolishing tents and burning down others as anger boiled over in the capital
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Hezbollah supporters attack several protest camps in Lebanon

Syrian regime air strikes and artillery fire on Tuesday killed 14 civilians in the last major opposition bastion in the northwest of the country, a war monitor said. The extremist-held region of Idlib
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Regime bombardment kills 14 civilians in northwest Syria: Monitor