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Calling Israeli Apartheid What It Is

Saudi journalist and democracy advocate Jamal Khashoggi founded DAWN in 2018.

Saudi Arabia

Democracy In Exile

'Jamal Khashoggi Way' Is a Message to Biden, Too

Abderrahmane Amor

The renaming of the street is more than a symbolic message to the Saudi government; it's a communal and resounding...

"Jamal Khashoggi" Way Street Sign Memorializing Murder of Saudi Journalist Unveiled in Front of the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C.

What Kind of Reform, and Who Really Benefits? Taking Stock of Change in Saudi Arabia

Egypt

Mohamed El-Baqer Must Be Released, 1000 Days of Arbitrary Detention

Human rights defender Mohamed El-Baqer must be released immediately and unconditionally, stated 20 human rights organizations. His detention is arbitrary,...

Egypt: Release Anas El-Beltagy, Arbitrarily Detained at 19, Remains Unjustly Imprisoned More than Eight Years Later

Anas El-Beltagy: 19-Year-Old Student Denied Fair Trial, Remains Unjustly Imprisoned after Four Separate Acquittals Eight Years Later

UAE

Democracy In Exile

Why the UAE Wants to Be Club Med for the World's Kleptocrats

The United Arab Emirates has become one of the world's leading money laundromats. It's not just a money-making scheme, but...

Why the UAE Wants to Be Club Med for the World's Kleptocrats

The UAE's Expansionist Agenda in Yemen Is Playing Out on Socotra

Calling Israeli Apartheid What It Is

When I was appointed the U.N. Special Rapporteur, the thought that I would devote one of my reports to Israeli...

Gaza Aid Worker Mohammad al-Halabi's Father on a 'Farcical and Retaliatory Trial' in Israel

Taghreed Risheq

For six years, Khalil al-Halabi has been exhorting anyone who will listen to help him in his family's quest to...

Democracy In Exile

'Jamal Khashoggi Way' Is a Message to Biden, Too

Abderrahmane Amor

The renaming of the street is more than a symbolic message to the Saudi government; it's a communal and resounding...

Democracy In Exile

Despite Yemen's Truce, Lasting Peace Is Still Far Off

Giorgio Cafiero

Militarily and politically, the picture remains grim in the Middle East's poorest country.

Democracy In Exile

'The Journalist in Jenin,' a Poem for Shireen Abu Akleh

That thing in her hand isn't a furled umbrella: / It's the microphone that records sounds / of birds, of...

Democracy In Exile

What Kind of Reform, and Who Really Benefits? Taking Stock of Change in Saudi Arabia

Madawi Al-Rasheed

The pace of reforms instituted under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been swift enough to generate countless headlines about...

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"We knew that Turkey and the issue of Khashoggi wasn't about justice for them. It was politics from day one. They already did some damage and they can't do much beyond that."

"We intend to remind the people who are hiding behind these doors … that we hold them responsible and we will hold them accountable for the murder of our friend."

"My main concern is that it [$one billion additional aid to Israel] is an alarming example of a blank cheque to Israel. It's a huge omnibus. They know it will pass without opposition."

"People can see for themselves what's happening in a way they didn't before. It's made it harder, particularly in the US, for defenders of Israel who've had a mythology of what Israel's like, confronted with reality of what's in front of them."

""That the Egyptian government could not meet even the watered-down human rights conditions to release 16 political prisoners is just one reason for why the U.S. government has no business sending one cent of weapons to its brutal dictatorship."

"All MBS understands is the power of toughness and ultimatums. Ending arms sales to Saudi Arabia altogether unless it withdraws from Yemen would be one such ultimatum the administration could make."

"We've now entered a stage where our own governments, the British government and the American government, must choose between the interests of the israeli government to preserve its immunity at all costs, and the interests, the cherished rights and freedoms, of their own citizens."

Democracy In Exile

'Jamal Khashoggi Way' Is a Message to Biden, Too

Abderrahmane Amor

Mohamed El-Baqer Must Be Released, 1000 Days of Arbitrary Detention

Democracy In Exile

Why the UAE Wants to Be Club Med for the World's Kleptocrats

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