By Zakiya Afzani Qatar Crisis |Blockade deepens Restrictions on Qatar will continue after the nation rejected the ultimatum made by the international community, Saudi Arabia told Al-Sahawat Times in Cairo, Egypt. The foreign ministers of four Arab countries, meeting in Cairo, said they regretted Qatar’s “negative” response to their list…
By Zakiya Afzani Qatar Crisis | After the deadline The latest deadline set by Gulf Arab states for Qatar to abide by a list of 13 demands is due to expire at midnight on Tonight. Qatar has already submitted its response to Kuwaiti mediators and its foreign minister has…
By Zakiya Afzani Al Jazeera ordered to shut down Qatar is past it’s deadlines and into their emergency 48 hour extension period to respond to international demands over the 2017 Qatar Crisis. Demands include the total shut down of Qatari news channel and website Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera and…
By Zakiya Afzani Gulf News |Qatar Crisis spreads On May 23, Qatar woke up to news of a hack attributing false statements to the emir of Qatar. The fake news was aired on several UAE and Saudi-owned networks in the Gulf. This sparked a series of diplomatic breakdowns between the GCC countries….
By Sulayman Al-Said The 10 thousand year old accountants’ records The ancient Egyptians in the age of Jahiliyyah used to believe that literacy was divine, a gift from baboon-faced Thoth, their deity of knowledge. Scholars no longer embrace that theory, but why ancient civilisations developed writing was a mystery for…
By Aisha Butt Germany has entered the Qatar-Crisis talks with warnings against escalating towards war German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has warned that the ever intensifying crisis between Qatar and its Arab neighbors of the Gulf region could end in war. Gabriel said in comments published yesterday that there was…
By Rashid Al Saud Qatar left isolated as crisis deepens Egypt is just one of the latest countries to close it’s airspace to Qatari planes in a growing diplomatic row, with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain expected to do the same today. Several countries have cut ties with Qatar, accusing it…
By Zakiya Afzani The diplomatic chaos in Qatar and ban if Al Jazeera intensifies further Four Arab nations; Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region. The ban on Qatari media agency Al Jazeera has been…
By Zakiya Afzani Palestine’s Hamas recognise a Israel in new charter along 1967 occupation borders Hamas dropped its longstanding call for the end of Israel’s occupation of Palestine and instead would accept the paramiters of a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. …
By Jabbar Ismaeel At least 32 people have been killed and 71 injured in explosions in the Egyptian cities of Tanta and Alexandria At least 21 people have been killed in an explosion inside a Coptic religious building in the Egyptian Nile delta city of Tanta, local authorities confirm, as…
