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Offer of “humanitarian aid” comes after new threats of death and destruction.

Journalist Rania Khalek talks about how the region is interconnected.

Alyne Tamir calls it “fake news” that she’s Israeli. But she’s the one who said it.

Israel seeks to exploit Beirut disaster to destroy resistance.

Israeli politician celebrates death and destruction in Beirut.

With UNRWA broke and international and Palestinian actors turning away, poverty-stricken refugees face out-and-out disaster.

Amer Fakhoury helped Israel run Khiam prison, where torture and murder took place.

Palestinians resist discriminatory Lebanese labor laws.

Recent legislation and historic discrimination leave Palestinian refugees fearful and angry.

The legendary “Angry Arab” joins us for a wide-ranging discussion.

Alliance between Christian evangelicals and Gulf states based on mutual enmity towards Iran.

Border agents replicate Israeli tactics of detention, interrogation and scrutiny of personal opinions.

Israel’s strategy has been to back any enemy of Iran, including al-Qaida.

Sibel Edmonds introduces the art of making Turkish filled pastry- Gozleme. Mexicans with their awesome quesadilla, French with their delicately filled crepes, Arabs, Greeks and Serbs with their Boreks, can all relate to this fast and easy-to-make, affordable and delicious Turkish delicacy. We are bridging the gap with Gozleme!

Sibel Edmonds introduces Turkey’s National Drink-Raki (aka Lion’s Milk!), and explains its similarities to Ouzo and Arak. From the right way of preparing and drinking this potent beverage to what type of mezes (tapas) to pair it up with for the ultimate experience: Decoding Raki! Come and join Sibel Edmonds in bridging the gap with […]

Athletes, conferences and a mooted railroad project see Israel and Arab Gulf relations deepen.

Israeli team includes an active duty Israeli soldier.

Limak Holding stays out of project “due to its sensitive nature.”

Reported visit comes as Gulf states compete for Israel’s affections.

Tel Aviv LGBT film festival hit with wave of cancellations.

New national security adviser has long applauded Israel’s aggression.

Refugee Khamis Ghafour sells the same type of ice cream in his Lebanon shop that his father made in Akka in the 1920s.

The American Jewish Committee paints Israel as the perpetual victim.

Energy deals fuel Israel’s impunity and crimes, Palestinians say.

Paper regards some kinds of violence as more acceptable than others.

Palestinian refugees will feel immediate impact as teachers are laid off.

US is largest contributor to agency that meets basic needs of millions of refugees.

What has prompted Israel-Saudi alliance to emerge from the shadows?

Gulf activists organize against normalization with Israel.

Reported Trump peace plan would give Palestinians state in name only.

New US plan may be more about regional power play than Palestinian-Israeli peace.

Israel’s leaders continue to threaten the entire Lebanese population with another war.

We Are Change A recent release of documents in the CIA’s cache — codenamed Crest — totalling up to 13 million documents reveal the CIA’s plans to oust the Syrian President, Hafez al-Assad.

Palestinian refugees who fled Syria to Lebanon live on the margins, their future insecure.

Journalists are being forbidden from quoting a document that proves Israel kills by remote control.

Several refugee camps have been destroyed and depopulated in nearly five years of violence.

Several refugee camps have been destroyed and depopulated in nearly five years of violence.

Ziadah’s new poetry album draws on the connection between activism and art.  

Ziadah’s new poetry album draws on the connection between activism and art.  

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Book is based on the father of the author’s experience growing up in Lebanon camp.

Arab liberalism allied itself with US and Israel to impoverish and destroy whole countries.

Israel’s policy of “targeted assassinations” prompted Yonatan Shapira to ask why he was serving in its military.

My family was forced to leave Palestine in 1948; I was forced to leave Syria 64 years later.

Palestinian refugees from Syria face increased restrictions.

Allegations that Ein al-Hilwe camp is sheltering Lebanese Islamist extremists are baseless, say Palestinians. 

The reconstruction of the refugee camp in north Lebanon is running out of funds.