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Interviews
July 2, 2023
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Naima Morelli
London-based Italian artist Alessandra Ferrini deepens the conversation around colonial and recent Libyan history, creating work about the manipulation of information, colonial memory, trauma and reparations
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Article
Survivors of a boat disaster that likely killed hundreds of migrants near Greece have given accounts of traffickers in North Africa cramming them into a clapped-out fishing trawler. They...
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Article
On 30 August 2008, Italy and Libya signed their Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership, ending their awkward past of feuding and diplomatic tensions over Italy's colonisation of Libya...
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Article
In February 2023, the Italian parliament passed a government decree establishing a code of conduct for NGO rescue ships, limiting their rescue operations in an effort to deter illegal immigration to Italy and limit it.
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Article
Israel continues its policy of Judaising the occupied city of Jerusalem where it targets Islamic and Christian holy sites. It is trying to change the historical mark of Jerusalem...
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A boat has capsized between Tunisia and Italy and 37 people including a newborn baby are missing, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The survivors are from...
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A controversial law proposed by the ruling far-right coalition has again brought Muslims and their places of worship to the fore of Italy's political discourse. If passed, the law...
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Article
June 23, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
"Berlusconi is there because others have failed." These words by Italian columnist Massimo Franco were made to the Washington Post in 2018, shortly before the Italian elections. They sum up the story...
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British authorities have arrested a man suspected of organising the smuggling of thousands of migrants and refugees across the Mediterranean Sea, potentially leading to the deaths of many hundreds....
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Tunisian President Kais Saied began an official visit to France yesterday, with the opposition warned against succumbing to European pressures to settle migrants in Tunisia. The Tunisian presidency stated...
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The director of an Arab environmental group withdrew from a European Union (EU) training course in Italy this week after an Israeli delegation appeared at the course, leading her...
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Nine men charged over the worst shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea this year that killed at least 82 people were detained pending trial, the coastguard said on Wednesday, while...
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Article
June 20, 2023
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Osama Gaweesh
What is it that drives Egyptians to migrate across the sea? "Young people need to live and eat, or else they'll leave you and flee across the sea," President...
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On Monday, Tunisian President, Kais Saied, stated that his country "will not accept to be the guardian of any other country's borders or to settle migrants on its territory."...
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Article
June 19, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Fadi, a Syrian teenager, with curly hair and an acne-covered face, has miraculously survived one of the greatest migrant boat disasters in the modern history of the Mediterranean. Only...
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The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities in Baghdad announced yesterday that it has retrieved a 2,800-year-old stone tablet from Italy, nearly four decades after it was looted from...
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Article
More details are unfolding following the killing of an Israeli officer when a boat capsized and sank off Italy's coast in late May. There is more certainty that Israeli...
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Nine Egyptians have been arrested and accused of taking part in the smuggling of migrants after a boat capsized off the coast of Greece, killing 79 people last week. The...
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A Syrian teenager, who survived a shipwreck that killed at least 78 people, was emotionally reunited with his elder brother on Friday, but there was no news for other...
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An official source in Italy has said that authorities have deported over 2,300 Tunisian migrants who entered the country illegally, placing Tunisians at the forefront of migrants from the...
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As Greece confronts its worst sea disaster in years, questions are mounting about how potentially hundreds of migrants drowned even as their vessel was being shadowed by the Greek coastguard,...
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June 15, 2023
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Omar Ahmed
Low-budget Irish airline RyanAir has come under fire on social media by pro-Israel users following a report on Tuesday by World Israel News (WIN) alleging that a flight attendant announced that...
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Nearly 3,800 people died on migration routes within and from the Middle East and North Africa last year, the highest number recorded there since 2017, according to data published...
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Political opponents of Tunisia's President Kais Saied have criticised Europe's proposed financial aid package, cautioning against what they call the "Mediterranean Deal". They decry the fact that the deal...
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The United Nations mission in Libya said, on Monday, it was concerned by the arbitrary arrest of migrants and asylum seekers in the country, accompanied by what it called...
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A Turkish cargo vessel that Italian special forces boarded after the crew detected a group of unidentified people on board is now sitting off the southern city of Naples,...
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Italy sought last-minute changes on Thursday to a tentative EU agreement on sharing out responsibility for looking after migrants and refugees, pushing for a cut in the number of people...
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Article
June 8, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Europe keeps reminding us that geopolitical interests often trump ideology. European politics is the prime example of how states and political parties are willing to ditch their ideological foundations...
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A team of Italian doctors and nurses carried out life-saving surgery on ten critically ill Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip this week, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund...
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'Better a pig than a fascist' read the sign of Tunisian protesters, presumably in reference to Tunisia's leader Kais Saied and Italy's Georgia Meloni who have gained notoriety for their anti-immigrant speeches. This comes against the backdrop of a meeting between the two leaders in the Tunisian capital to discuss an aid package for Tunisia and the growing pressure on the North African country to accept an IMF loan.
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European Union countries are expected, this week, to agree on how to share out the responsibility of hosting refugees and migrants, a top EU official said on Tuesday of...
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At 4am on 26 February 2023 at least 94 people died when the boat Summer Love crashed onto the rocks near the Italian village of Steccato di Cutro. The...