2025 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 April 2025 Maati Monjib: “Corruption is rife in Morocco” Omar Brouksy · 21 April Interview with the French-Moroccan historian Maati Monjib, who began a hunger strike on 3 April to protest his being prevented from leaving Morocco to attend a conference at the Sorbonne. In a voice weakened by the hunger strike he began on 3 April - the day he learned at Rabat airport that (…) “I want to tell you about a reporter, Ahmed Mansour” Rami Abou Jamous · 21 April Rami Abu Jamous is keeping a diary for Orient XXI. The founder of Gaza Press, an agency which helped and interpreted for western correspondents, he was obliged by the Israeli army to leave his Gaza City apartment with his wife Sabah, her children, and their two and a half year-old son, Walid, in (…) Palestine. In the northern part of the West Bank, the colonial war takes on a new shape Clothilde Mraffko · 9 April Immediately after the ceasefire went into effect in Gaza in mid-January 2025, Israel announced that it was including in its “war objectives” an intensification of operations in the West Bank. Since then the number of people displaced is over 40,000. At least 911 Palestinians have been killed (…) March 2025 Yemen. Forgotten by the world, in the heart of the region Alexandre Lauret · 30 March Victims of Saudi-Iranian rivalry, or a security threat? After ten years of war, our perception of Yemen remains ambivalent. Most of the time, the conflict is simply ignored. For many years the country was seen in the context of the war on terror but then, after 2015, as the scene of a terrible (…) Syria.The Alawites’ great dismay Paloma Dupont de Dinechin · 22 March In Tartus, the seizure of power in December 2024 by the Islamist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), Bashar al-Assad’s flight into exile and the emergence of armed militias have made the Alawites fear attacks inspired by a desire for revenge. Their fears were confirmed by the massacres that (…) Behind China’s breakthrough in the Middle-East Martine Bulard · 17 March Not since WW2 have relations between China and the Arab countries been so highly developed, and not only in the economic sphere. Beijing is profiting by this but has not yet managed to replace Washington. Can Donald Trump’s mind-boggling projects change the game? Quite unspectacularly - with (…) The scramble to reconstruct Gaza Jim Muir · 11 March Isreal says it is committed to making Donald Trump’s “plan” for a Gaza without Gazans . But can Arab states stave off a second Nakba, the first being the di splacement of Palestinians by the creation of Israel in 1948 ? Moreover, Israel is still present in Lebanon and threatens to strike Iran. (…) Gaza. Hamas at a crossroads Raed Abbas · 5 March In spite of its various component currents, Hamas has managed to last four decades with no internal conflicts. However the destruction of Gaza following its October 7th attack, and the heavy losses it has sustained, have reshuffled the deck, both between the religious and military currents, and (…) February 2025 Jordan. The unseen weight of the Nakba on refugee women Victoria Brittain · 25 February Interview. The fruit of four years’ field research, Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan - Decolonising the Geopolitics of Displacement by researcher Afaf Jabiri offers a documented critique of the humanitarian, legal and colonial frameworks that marginalize Palestinian women from (…) President Sissi’s Egypt trapped in inextricable crises Robert Springborg, Sylvain Cypel · 19 February An Arab summit will meet on March 4th in Cairo to propose a plan for the future of Gaza, following President Donald Trump’s proposal to deport its population. Never has the situation of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi, caught between his alliance with Israel, an unstable regional situation, his (…) “The roles are still reversed” Rami Abou Jamous · 17 February Rami Abu Jamous is keeping a diary for Orient XXI. The founder of Gaza Press, an agency which helped and interpreted for western correspondents, he was obliged by the Israeli army to leave his Gaza City apartment with his wife Sabah, her children, and their two and a half year-old son, Walid, in (…) “And there was a celebration...” Rami Abou Jamous · 6 February Rami Abu Jamous is keeping a diary for Orient XXI. The founder of Gaza Press, an agency which helped and interpreted for western correspondents, he was obliged by the Israeli army to leave his Gaza City apartment with his wife Sabah, her children, and their two and a half year-old son, Walid, in (…) Calais: “People are dying on your beaches” Maël Galisson · 5 February At least 89 migrants died on France’s marine border with England in 2024. A record number which associations, trades unions and political parties decided to denounce with a “great march for justice and dignity”. Standing in the back of a pick-up parked in the middle of the Richelieu park (…) January 2025 We took a risk going to the beach Rami Abou Jamous · 31 January Rami Abu Jamous is keeping a diary for Orient XXI. The founder of Gaza Press, an agency which helped and interpreted for western correspondents, he was obliged by the Israeli army to leave his Gaza City apartment with his wife Sabah, her children, and their two and a half year-old son, Walid, in (…) Like all colonial powers, Israel doesn’t want an educated society Rami Abou Jamous · 31 January Rami Abu Jamous is keeping a diary for Orient XXI. The founder of Gaza Press, an agency which helped and interpreted for western correspondents, he was obliged by the Israeli army to leave his Gaza City apartment with his wife Sabah, her children, and their two and a half year-old son, Walid, in (…) Account from a Gazan worker, detained and tortured in Israel Rami Abou Jamous · 31 January Rami Abu Jamous is keeping a diary for Orient XXI. The founder of Gaza Press, an agency which helped and interpreted for western correspondents, he was obliged by the Israeli army to leave his Gaza City apartment with his wife Sabah, her children, and their two and a half year-old son, Walid, in (…) Every war has its profiteers Rami Abou Jamous · 31 January Rami Abu Jamous is keeping a diary for Orient XXI. The founder of Gaza Press, an agency which helped and interpreted for western correspondents, he was obliged by the Israeli army to leave his Gaza City apartment with his wife Sabah, her children, and their two and a half year-old son, Walid, in (…) Iran : From revolutionary strategy to nationalistic retreat Bernard Hourcade · 30 January The military rout of Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and then in Syria, has overturned the socio-political and geopolitical status quo in the Middle East. The Islamic Republic will now be obliged to fall back on its own territory, focusing on its domestic issues and its ambitions as a regional (…) Palestine: In the West Bank, free rein for settler brutality Jean Stern · 27 January While Gaza began to breathe again the day after the ceasefire went into effect, the nightmare continues in the rural areas and small towns of the West Bank: hundreds of dead, thousands of attacks, vicious looting. The harassment by settlers drunk on their impunity is terrifying. As a member of a (…) To boost people’s morale, sometimes you have to tell them lies Rami Abou Jamous · 25 January Rami Abu Jamous is keeping a diary for Orient XXI. The founder of Gaza Press, an agency which helped and interpreted for western correspondents, he was obliged by the Israeli army to leave his Gaza City apartment with his wife Sabah, her children, and their two and a half year-old son, Walid, in (…) “If there’s a ceasefire, what’s the first thing you’ll do?” Rami Abou Jamous · 22 January Rami Abu Jamous is keeping a diary for Orient XXI. The founder of Gaza Press, an agency which helped and interpreted for western correspondents, he was obliged by the Israeli army to leave his Gaza City apartment with his wife Sabah, her children, and their two and a half year-old son, Walid, in (…) In South-Lebanon, Israel’s war is not finished Laurent Perpigna Iban · 9 January The fragile cease-fire agreed on 26 November 2024 is still not totally effective. In addition to the sporadic bombings, dozens of villages are still occupied by the Israeli army which has also placed another 60 nearby villages in a “red zone”. OrientXXI has managed to get into the town of Majdel (…) Iraq, or the “Axis of Resistance” Upset Robin Beaumont · 7 January Twenty years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the collapse in Syria of the other great Baathist regime has elicited varied reactions in Iraq. Neither the government, nor the Iraqi Shiite factions, which for the past decade have been staunch supporters of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, have so much (…)