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  • Syria
    Damascus medieval citadel bus bomb blast kills four

    The bomb went off near the city's medieval citadel - a heavily policed area that up until now has been largely unscathed by the four-year civil war.

  • Egypt
    Egypt confirms death sentences for 183 men over police killings

    An Egyptian court on Monday confirmed death sentences against 183 men convicted of killing 13 police officers in a town near Cairo in August 2013.

  • Art in the Middl East
    Most Famous Middle Eastern Painting to be Sold at Christie’s

    Jamal Al Mahamel II by Suleiman Mansour will hit the auction block at Christie's Dubai on March 18. The work is one of the most famous Palestinian paintings, if not one of the most famous from the Middle East at large. It carries a presale estimate of $200,000–300,000. A portion of the proceeds from its sale will be given to initiatives that support artists from the region.

  • Kidnapping
    Government Involvement and Ransom Inflation

    Kidnapping-for-ransom has become a favored financing tool for terrorist groups across the globe, from the Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines to al Qaeda. Recent high-profile cases involving ransom demands of millions of dollars for Western journalists, aid workers, and tourists may attract immense media attention, but many thousands of local people are taken too.

  • Iran
    ‘Washington Post’ reporter languishes in Iranian jail

    That was over six months ago — the day before Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post correspondent in Tehran, was detained by the Iranian government, along with his wife and two others on July 22, 2014.

  • Islamic State
    The ISIS-ification of Islamist politics

    Scholars of Islamist movements and the movements themselves have been forced to redefine their ideologies, strategies and rhetoric in the face of this new force. It might be difficult, at least for now, to gauge the actual popularity of the Islamic State among other Islamist movements, particularly “veteran” ones such as the Muslim Brotherhood and its sisters.

  • U.S. - Israel
    How Americans really feel about Netanyahu and why it matters

    On the surface, Americans seem to view Israel’s prime minister just like they view other Western leaders, more favorably than unfavorably. But probing deeper, my survey reveals that Americans are much more divided about him, particularly across party lines, while younger Americans view him more unfavorably. These divides, coupled with significant and expanding party divides about policy toward Israel, mean that Netanyahu’s planned speech to Congress could force congressional Democrats to become more responsive to their grass roots constituents who are far more critical of Israeli policies – just as potential presidential candidates will be gearing up for primaries.

  • Jones Lang LaSalle
    New Saudi mortgage laws turn off buyers

    New mortgage laws in Saudi Arabia have prompted a shift from owning to renting properties in Jeddah during the fourth quarter of 2014, Jones Lang LaSalle has said.

  • Food and Beverage
    New sugar refinery to start ops in Saudi Arabia by end-2017

    A new sugar refinery is due to start operations in Jizan in southwest Saudi Arabia by the end of 2017, adding to a stream of projects that will significantly raise the Middle East's refining capacity.

  • Power and Water
    Saudi’s Acwa bidding for over $4.9bn power projects

    Saudi Arabia’s power generation firm Acwa Power, which recently won a solar power project in Dubai, is bidding for 3-4 projects worth more than $5 billion (Dh18.35bn), reflecting good growth in renewable energy sector in the region, said a senior official.