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AMMAN, JORDAN - NOVEMBER 15: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY â MANDATORY CREDIT - "ROYAL HASHEMITE COURT / HANDOUT" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Jordanian King Abdullah II makes a speech at the parliament building during the inauguration of the new term of the Jordanian Parliament, in Amman, Jordan on November 15, 2021. In his speech, the king gave a message of support to the Palestinians. (Photo by Royal Hashemite Court / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Jordan: Analyzing the 2024 Parliamentary Elections and the Growing Power of King Abdullah

$(L to R) US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting together at Riyadh's Diriyah Palace on February 18, 2025. Top US and Russian diplomats were meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting their countries' fractured relations and making a tentative start on trying to end the Ukraine war. Both sides played down the chances that the first high-level meeting between the countries since US President Donald Trump took office would result in a breakthrough. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / POOL / AFP)$

Democracy In Exile

Saudi Arabia Is Now Using Diplomacy, Like Sports, to Whitewash Its Image

GAZA CITY, GAZA - APRIL 02: A view of Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Gaza on April 02, 2025. Palestinians in Jabalia Refugee Camp in northern Gaza are struggling to survive their daily lives in makeshift tents among the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli attacks. (Photo by Saeed Mohammed/Anadolu via Getty Images)

DAWN Response to Senate Vote on Arms Sales to Israel

Democracy In Exile

Assad's Fall Threatens to Reignite Decades of Sectarian Strife in Northern Lebanon

In this aerial photograph, crowds gather to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the uprising against Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad in Homs, late on March 15, 2025. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Returning to Syria, and My City of Homs, After 14 Years of Exile

$(L to R) US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting together at Riyadh's Diriyah Palace on February 18, 2025. Top US and Russian diplomats were meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting their countries' fractured relations and making a tentative start on trying to end the Ukraine war. Both sides played down the chances that the first high-level meeting between the countries since US President Donald Trump took office would result in a breakthrough. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / POOL / AFP)$

Democracy In Exile

Saudi Arabia Is Now Using Diplomacy, Like Sports, to Whitewash Its Image

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The head of the Ennahdha movement, Rached Ghannouchi, appears before the first investigative judge of the judicial pole for combating terrorism, in order to interrogate him regarding a complaint that was filed against him by one of the security unions in Tunis, Tunisia on February 21, 2023 . (Photo by Yassine Mahjoub/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Tunisia: Release Rached Ghannouchi, Unjustly Imprisoned Political Leader

Democracy In Exile

Assad's Fall Threatens to Reignite Decades of Sectarian Strife in Northern Lebanon

A picture shows a general view of the Jordanian Parliament before a session aiming to set a date to discuss the Israeli-Jordanian US-brokered solar power for water "declaration of intent" which was signed in Dubai last month, on December 8, 2021. - The parliament session which aimed, among other topics, to set a date to discuss the US-brokered declaration of intent, was postponed till December 13. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP) (Photo by KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images)

Briefing Paper: Jordan's 2024 Parliamentary Elections and the Growing Power of King Abdullah

Egypt

NEWS & ANALYSIS

Egypt: Immediately Release Mohamed Ahmed Hasan Thabet, 73, After Over Five Years of Arbitrary Detention

February 12, 2025

(Washington D.C., February 12, 2025) — Egyptian authorities should immediately release Mohamed Ahmed Hasan Thabet, a 73-year old Egyptian businessman,...

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - JANUARY 29: Former U.S. senator Bob Menendez leaves Manhattan Federal Court after his sentencing in bribery conviction in New York, United States on January 29, 2025. Former US Senator Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison on bribery, extortion and corruption charges (Photo by Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

DAWN Statement on the Sentencing of Sen. Bob Menendez and Egypt's Corrupt Influence in U.S. Politics

January 29, 2025

(Washington, D.C., January 27, 2025) – In response to the sentencing today by the Federal Court of the Southern District...

Department of Justice building in Washington D.C., United States of America on July 12th, 2024. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

U.S. Department of Justice: Investigate All Communications Between Egypt and Members of Congress

August 14, 2024

(Washington, D.C., August 14, 2024): In the wake of the July 2024 conviction of Senator Robert Menendez for accepting bribes...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 16: U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) exits Manhattan federal court on July 16, 2024 in New York City. Menendez and his wife Nadine are accused of taking bribes of gold bars, a luxury car, and cash in exchange for using Menendez's position to help the government of Egypt and other corrupt acts according to an indictment from the Southern District of New York. The jury found Menendez guilty on all counts. (Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images)

DAWN Calls for Broader Investigation Following Senator Menendez's Conviction for Bribery by Egyptian Government

In response to the jury verdict conviction of Senator Menedez in New York federal court for various crimes, including accepting...

CULPRITS

Egypt: Judge Hassan Farid El-Shami, Judicial Agent of State Repression

Judge Hassan Faird El-Shami, head of Circuit No. 5 of the Cairo Criminal Court, is implicated in the abuse of...

Egypt: Judge Shabeeb al-Damarany Enforces Arbitrary Detentions, Indiscriminate Sentences

Judge Shabeeb al-Damarany currently sits on the Cairo Criminal Court. He served as Judge and Chair of the Third Terrorism...

Egypt: Tarek Marzouk Responsible for Systematic and Widespread Torture, Inhumane Conditions in Egyptian Prisons

February 14, 2022

Major General Tarek Marzouk is the Assistant Minister of Interior for Prisons, commonly referred to as the Head of Prisons...

Egypt: Prosecutor Yehia Marwan Charges Peaceful Justice Activist with Terrorism

August 24, 2021

Prosecutor Yehia Omar Marwan. عربيProsecutor Yehia Omar Marwan participated in the Egyptian authorities' crushing of independent voices by throwing peaceful...

UNJUST PROSECUTIONS

Egypt: Immediately Release Mohamed Ahmed Hasan Thabet, 73, After Over Five Years of Arbitrary Detention

February 12, 2025

(Washington D.C., February 12, 2025) — Egyptian authorities should immediately release Mohamed Ahmed Hasan Thabet, a 73-year old Egyptian businessman,...

Abusing Terrorism Laws to Target Egypt's Business Community: The Arbitrary Detention and Rights Violations of Mohamed Ahmed Hassan Thabet

February 12, 2025

The Egyptian government has targeted independent business owners, subjecting them to arbitrary prosecution under the guise of combating terrorism, but...

Hassiba Mahsoub: Ten Years Since Coup, Egypt Still Targeting Family Members of Former Government

Hassiba Mahsoub is a 55 year old engineer and businesswoman and the sister of Mohamed Mahsoub, formerly the Vice President...

Anas El-Beltagy

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

Anas Mohamed El-Beltagy was a 19-year-old student at Ain Shams University preparing to take his semester exams when security forces...

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"The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events. More important, we need to provide a platform for Arab voices. We suffer from poverty, mismanagement and poor education. Through the creation of an independent international forum, isolated from the influence of nationalist governments spreading hate through propaganda, ordinary people in the Arab world would be able to address the structural problems their societies face."

- Jamal Khashoggi, Washington Post, October 17, 2018

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