Middle East Experience

Passage 'vital to trade' between Jordan and Syria will reopen on Monday for first time in three years, say officials..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Jordan and Syria agree to reopen Naseeb border crossing

Activists say they are increasingly being summoned by the Cyber Crimes Bureau for criticising the government on social media..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Is Lebanon cracking down on government critics?

Analysts familiar with the desert kingdom said it was likely that Saudi leaders were hoping the scandal would blow over and that they could wait it out.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Trump, Pompeo defend Saudi rulers as White House strategy shifts

Afghanistan’s election has been postponed for a week in Kandahar province after an elite Afghan guard opened fire at the end of a meeting between Kandahar and US officials. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the assault that killed police chief Gen. Abdul Raziq and wounded three Americans..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Election postponed in Kandahar after attack on security meeting

A retrospective on the life and works of the Iranian artist shows a woman ahead of her time..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Behjat Sadr: Iran's 'pioneer of visual arts' gets first exhibition in London

In a speech, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei encouraged young scientists to look east rather than west for academic connections.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Khamenei instructs Iranian scholars to look eastward

Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Intel: Why Turkey is leaking Khashoggi details to the media

For Israel’s leadership, the anti-Iran alliance with Saudi Arabia is more important than reacting on the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Analysis: Israel torn between Saudi Arabia, Turkey on Khashoggi affair

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears as the savior of the Turkish economy after revoking the decision to work with McKinsey and thereby preventing American involvement — all at the expense of his son-in-law’s professional reputation.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Opposition to US consulting firm reveals Erdogan’s weak spots

In an interview with Al-Monitor, the head of the Supreme Council of the Tuareg Tribes, Mawlay Qudeidi, speaks about the clashes between rival militias in Tripoli, the security situation and illegal immigration in the south, as well as the elections pushed for by the United Nations.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Can Libya’s tribes help solve crisis?