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In countries that practice Islamic law, legal reforms to advance the status of women tend to fail due to hard-liners…

CAIRO (AP) — They are regarded as heroes, their fallen colleagues as martyrs. But for doctors and nurses still dealing…

CAIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — It is a Friday morning in Egypt’s City of the Dead, the day of the…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) — It took 16 judges to convict Kurdish politicians Gultan Kisanak and Sebahat Tuncel of belonging to a…

CAIRO (AP) — Samera al-Huri’s fellow activists were disappearing, one by one. When she asked their families, each gave the…

A period drama about the trials of a Jewish midwife airing on Saudi-controlled MBC for Ramadan has drawn both criticisms…

BAHTIM, Egypt (AP) — Every year during Ramadan, the Light of Muhammad Mosque sets up long tables on the street…

WASHINGTON (AP) — What if the real “invisible enemy” is the enemy from within — America’s very institutions? When the…

BEIJING (AP) — Getting into Wuhan was the easy part. New virus infections had fallen to almost zero and travel…

The street peddler watched the prime minister’s speech on a battered TV, with her family of five crowded around her…