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Ulfat Haider (left) and Nazanin Afshin-Jam Mackay (right), speaking on a panel at the inaugural Women's Champions for Change summit at the Peres Center for Peace in Jaffa, September 18, 2025. (Women's Champions for Change)
September 21, 2025, 8:09 pm
In shadow of war, Iranian, Afghan women join others in Tel Aviv to push for change
Israeli, Emirati, Saudi, Lebanese, other leaders attend inaugural Women Champions for Change summit to brainstorm solutions for regional progress
By Ariela Karmel
Muslims attend Friday prayers during the Muslims holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Amr ibn al-Aas Mosque, in Cairo, Egypt, April 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
October 17, 2023, 1:59 am
Fearing ostracism or worse, many Muslim nonbelievers hide their views in Middle East
Atheists, agnostics and religiously unaffiliated people in Arab world tell about the various ways they get around while avoiding persecution
By MARIAM FAM
Workers at ACCESS, the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, help with meals for the Arab community in Dearborn, Michigan, on May 1, 2020. (Carlos Osorio/AP)
January 29, 2023, 1:31 pm
Israelis could be affected by proposed changes to US census categories
Working group suggests updating 1997 federal government standards to add Middle Eastern and North African category; Hispanic race, ethnicity would be combined into one
By Mike Schneider
Dana Global signs partnership agreement with Abu Dhabi-based agritech investor Silal. (Courtesy)
December 7, 2022, 9:33 pm
Abu Dhabi-based accelerator to promote female-led Israeli, MENA agritech startups
Dana Global partners with Abu-Dhabi-based agritech investor Silal to advance solutions for tackling food insecurity in the UAE, and across the Middle East and Africa region
By Sharon Wrobel
The iconic Museum of the Future in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 1, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
April 12, 2022, 11:35 am
Lack of action at first MENA climate meet doesn’t bode well for Egypt’s COP27
Israel’s climate envoy calls on Egyptians to give tech solutions center stage at upcoming COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh; says ‘time for describing the problems is over’
By Sue Surkes
Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (in blue), is flanked by dignitaries and environment ministers at the first Middle East and North Africa Climate Week in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 28, 2022. (Courtesy, UNFCCC)
March 29, 2022, 10:22 am
Arab environment ministers call on wealthy nations to keep climate cash promises
At first UN Middle East and North Africa regional climate confab, West’s failure to provide annual $100 billion to help poor nations cope with climate crisis emerges as key issue
By Sue Surkes
Israel's special envoy on climate change, Ambassador Gideon Behar, at the first-ever UN Middle East and North Africa regional conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 28, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
March 29, 2022, 1:51 am
In Dubai, Israel’s climate envoy urges the Arab world: ‘Let us share climate tech’
Ambassador Gideon Behar tells roundtable of ministers from Middle East, North Africa, that Israeli innovations can help them better face climate crisis
By Sue Surkes
Muslim children walk with their father past a mosque after the completion of a service for the Eid al-Adha holiday on Sept. 12, 2016, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
October 23, 2016, 11:07 pm
Israeli, Palestinian Americans could share new ‘Middle Eastern’ census category
Proposal of new MENA classification for US Census could have far-reaching consequences for minority groups’ representation in US national discourse
By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff
Haim Koren, Israeli ambassador to Egypt, October 2013 (screen capture/YouTube/medisraelforfred)
February 28, 2016, 11:23 pm
Israeli envoy to Egypt: I won’t be deterred by shoe-throwing
After Egyptian MP is attacked for hosting him, Haim Koren says he meets regularly with el-Sissi and ‘countries have shared interest in fighting terror’
By Tamar Pileggi
A view of the Nile River. (CC-BY plusgood, Flickr.com)
January 1, 2016, 2:40 pm
14 drown in Egypt Nile boat accident
Capsized boat was not licensed to work as a ferry and was too small to carry its passengers, officials say
By AFP
Egypt's deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi raises his hands from behind the defendant's cage as the judge reads out his verdict sentencing him and more than 100 other defendants to death, at the police academy in Cairo on May 16, 2015. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)
August 9, 2015, 1:59 am
Egypt’s ousted president said to be refusing food
Islamist ex-leader Mohammed Morsi, sentenced to death, tells court he is diabetic, labels prison fare ‘a crime’
By Merrit Kennedy
July 30, 2014, 12:47 pm
3 militants reported killed in Egypt car explosion
Security officials say victims were traveling with explosive device in vehicle, likely detonated accidentally
By AP
Ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi (photo credit: AP/Maya Alleruzzo/File)
March 3, 2014, 12:17 pm
Morsi’s son released from jail after agreeing to drug test
Egyptian prosecutors free ousted president’s son following his arrest Saturday on suspicion of possession
By AP
Egyptian security forces detain supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday in Cairo. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Tallal)
August 18, 2013, 11:23 pm
At least 38 Brotherhood detainees killed in melee with police
Gunmen exchange fire with guards of trucks carrying more than 600 detainees during reported escape attempt
By AP and ToI Staff
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)
December 27, 2012, 7:02 pm
Condition worsening, Mubarak moved to military hospital for treatment
Ousted Egyptian president to be monitored before returning to prison clinic
By Adiv Sterman
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