Egypt’s Need for Low-income Housing
In March 2014, before resigning as Egypt’s minister of defense and pursuing his campaign for the presidency, General Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi announced an agreement with the UAE construction firm Arabtec to build a million affordable homes
Published : 15 January 2015
Winter Storm Brings Misery to Region`s Displaced
BBC News, 7 January 2014 A fierce winter storm has brought freezing temperatures to the Middle East, raising worries about the plight of the millions of refugees there. Snow has fallen in the mountains around Lebanon`s
Published : 08 January 2015
Rise and Fall of World’s Poorest Nations
UNITED NATIONS—The world’s 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs)—a special category of developing nations created by the General Assembly in 1971, but which the World Bank refused to recognise—have long been described as “poorest of the
Published : 07 January 2015
Israel Drilling Syrian Golan Oil
Israel is set to drill for oil in occupied Syrian Golan Heights 24 Dec 2014 MEMO/Middle East MOnitor Israel has approved an exploratory oil drilling programme in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, at a time when the
Published : 01 January 2015
Israel ex-Minister: Colony Funding “Corrupt”
JERUSALEM—Israel’s former finance minister on Thursday said the government’s rush to allot tens of millions of dollars to West Bank settlements last month amounted to corruption, as he sought to link the secretive spending spree
Published : 01 January 2015
Israeli Demolish Homes, 2 Jerusalem Families Homeless
JERUSALEM—Israeli authorities on Tuesday destroyed three homes, a restaurant, and a butcher shop in the East Jerusalem village of Jabal al-Mukabbir in a dawn raid that left two Palestinian families homeless. The raid brings
Published : 30 December 2014
Turkey: Privatization Threats Gümüşdere People
Gümüşdere is one of the rare villages in Istanbul where people are still engaged in agricultural activities. Nearly 300 families live in the village where they first settled in the 1920s in the exchange of populations.
Published : 27 December 2014
Israel Approves 380 New East Jerusalem Settler Homes
Israeli authorities gave final approval on Wednesday to the construction of 380 new settler homes in two areas of annexed east Jerusalem, a local official said. "The municipal commission has given construction permits for 307 homes
Published : 25 December 2014
Palestine/Israel: Naqab Villagers Forced to Demolish Homes
During the 1950s, the Israeli military regime removed residents of the Bedouin village of Saawa from their ancestral lands in the northern Negev to its present location. Although the village was already in its present
Published : 24 December 2014
