The television censorship committee in Egypt has decided to delete scenes deemed inappropriate from television dramas such as Al Aar and Al Haijah...
Egypt: TV programmes censored during Ramadan
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CATEGORY: Middle East and North Africa
Iran: Ayatollah Khamenei says no to music
Iran's supreme leader and cleric, Ayatollah Khamenei released a statement claiming that learning and teaching music are "not compatible" with...
Iraq inquiry stuck in a quagmire
The Chilcot investigation may know the truth about the build up to the war, but it is unable to reveal all, says Chris Ames
Kuwait: Ban pornographic sites on BlackBerry
Kuwait has asked BlackBerry's Canadian maker RIM to block pornographic sites though they will not suspend the messenger services like their Gulf...
Reporter dead in Israel-Lebanon border skirmish
Al Jazeera is reporting that Assaf Abou Rahhal, a journalist with Lebanon's Al Akhbar newspaper, was killed today in an exchange of fire between the...
UAE: BlackBerry ban is a sign of elite’s unease
The leaders of the Emirates are nervous of an Iranian-style uprising, says
Christopher Davidson
Iran: Human rights journalist jailed
Emadden Baghi, an Iranian human rights activist and journalist, has been given a year-long prison sentence and banned from any political activity...
Iran: Relatives of defence lawyer in stoning case arrested
The wife and brother-in-law of the lawyer who defended Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the mother of two who was sentenced to death by stoning for...
Kuwait: Journalists acquitted of libel and charges
A court in Kuwait City has acquitted a journalist prosecuted for insulting Kuwait's Prime Minister. Journalist Mohammed Abdel Qader Al-Jassem and...
The truth about Mohammed al Dura
It was the most iconic image of the second intifada: the killing of a Palestinian child. Ten years on, French libel courts are still settling disputes about what really happened at the Netzarim crossroads. Natasha Lehrer reports