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FILE- Empty Champs Elysees avenue as the 7 p.m curfew starts in Paris, France, on Saturday, March 20, 2021. Some 4,400 of the world's best athletes, parading down France's most famous boulevard with their prosthetic limbs, mobility chairs and stories of adversities overcome, to a grand celebration of their prowess and sports on the Paris square where the French revolutionaries of 1789 chopped off heads. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh, File)

The 2024 Paralympics in Paris Won’t Open in Stadium

The world’s best Paralympic athletes, parading down France’s most famous boulevard with their prosthetic limbs, mobility chairs and stories of adversity, heading to a grand celebration of their…

AP 20 October 2022
Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of French far-left opposition party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), and leader of the New Ecologic and Social People's Union (NUPES), takes part in a protest against soaring inflation and what they call a lack of government action to fight climate change, in Paris, France October 16, 2022. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Thousands Take To The Streets of Paris To Protest Soaring Prices

Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to protest against soaring prices as weeks of strikes for higher wages at oil refineries spurred demands for a general strike. The leader…

16 October 2022
New Parisian bouquiniste, traditional street bookseller, Rachid Bouanou places books on shelves along the banks of the River Seine in Paris, France, August 18, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier

'It's Wonderful,' Say Riverside Booksellers As Tourists Return to Paris

At the very heart of Paris, former sailor Rachid Bouanou opens a large green wooden crate mounted on a wall overlooking the Seine, and carefully sets out the old second-hand books he keeps in there…

19 August 2022
Jack Lang

Head of Arab World Institute Praises Cultural Achievements in Saudi Arabia

Jack Lang is one of the prominent intellectuals, educators, and legal professionals in France. He contributed to the enrichment of French culture, when he was the Minister of Culture in France from…

Mustafa El Dessouki 25 February 2022
Ottoman ceramic wall panels from Turkey around 16th-19th centuries on display in the Department of Islamic Arts – The Louvre Museum. (Jean-Pierre Dalbéra via Flickr)

A New Perspective on Islamic Cultures

There is always a strong reason to come and see the biggest and the most beautiful museum in the world, The Louvre. Formerly a palace for France’s royalty located in the heart of Paris, the museum…

Khaled Saad Zaghloul 25 November 2021
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The "Unity of Position" conference, held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Hasakah on August 8, 2025. Social media
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Heading for a showdown? SDF conference riles Damascus

13 August 2025

Syria's government needs to centralise decision-making and bring armed groups to heel, but Kurds in the north-east want to establish a 'coalition of the unwilling' with Druze and Alawites. What now?

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Tom Barrack: the businessman with a huge Middle East remit

08 August 2025

Donald Trump's ambassador to Türkiye and envoy to Syria has been having some critical conversations in regional capitals since April, from disarming Hezbollah to preventing another war with Israel

Omer Onhon
Demonstrators raise placards during an anti-government rally calling for action to secure the release of Israeli captives in Gaza near the defence ministry in Tel Aviv on August 12, 2025. Jack GUEZ / AFP
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Israelis are finally fed up with Netanyahu's endless war on Gaza

14 August 2025

The gulf between the political and military establishments is widening. Politicians speak of a delayed victory, but military leaders warn of an inescapable quagmire.

Ziad Al Halabi
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How Saudi Arabia harnessed its oil boom to foster development

14 August 2025

The first in a two-part series explains how the country capitalised on its black gold decades ago to expand its economy horizontally, a stunning success that paved the way for Vision 2030

Hussein al-Sharaa
US President Donald Trump (C), Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (L) and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan display the agreement they signed in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 8, 2025. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP
Politics

A new Trump-sponsored link in the South Caucasus causes a stir

11 August 2025

The Zangezur Corridor, a route through Armenia linking Azerbaijan and Türkiye, will be built and managed by Americans and will pass along the Iranian border, creating winners and losers

Omer Onhon

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