This was first published on MadMasr on 22 August 2020 Seventeen years ago, this week, I survived a terrorist attack that killed 22 people and injured many, including several friends in the United Nations. The attack on the UN offices at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad came a few months after the US invasion of […]
By mid 2020, the pandemic has left most Egyptians, probably including government officials, counting more on divine intervention and what has been destined by fate, rather than government policies and market responses… This article was first run by Daraj on 16 July 2020 in cooperation with Pulitzer Center. By early July, over 3500 Egyptians fell to […]
First Posted at United Against Inhumanity website on 8.10.2019 The plight of civilians in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib became too much to ignore in the middle of 2019 hot summer, even in a world that had become flooded and numbed by mediatised suffering. In late August, U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock told the Security Council that […]
