Reporter Saeed Kamali Dehghan describes the struggle to get information in and out of Tehran Huge rallies in Tehran yesterday saw hundreds of thousands of people defy bans and take to the streets to protest at the declaration that the president,...
Fiery television debates, and the tactics of Ahmadinejad’s own supporters, have emboldened Iran’s newspapers, says Meir Javedanfar The election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not make life easier for Iran's press. During his term of office, more than...
Al-Baghdadia correspondent, Alaa Abdel Wahab was killed outside Mosul, Iraq after a bomb placed underneath his car detenated also injuring a professor who works for a rival TV channel. Later the same evening a similar attack against an Al-Iraqiya...
The Yemeni Minister of information has denied that the government had suspended any newspapers, saying that some willingly disappeared and others for troubles with printers. In recent months several newspapers have been shut down and there have...
Farouk Hosny Egypt's culture minister, and candidate to lead Unesco, the UN's cultural arm, has expressed "solemn regret" over a May 2008 pledge to burn Israeli books in Egyptian libraries. Read more here
Lecturers voted overwhelmingly to boycott Israeli universities and colleges. As soon as the vote was carried, the leadership of the University and College Union declared it void to avoid legal action. Read more here
Egyptian blogger Tamer Mabrouk has been fined nearly 6,000 euros as the result of a defamation lawsuit by a private company, Trust Chemical Co., over information about pollution that he posted online. Read more here
Iran has restored access to Facebook after a block on the social networking website last week generated accusations that the government was trying to muzzle one of the main presidential campaign tools of the reformist opposition. Read more here
Iraq's national intelligence service has launched a court action to sue the Guardian, claiming to have been defamed by a story that characterised the regime of prime minister Nouri al-Maliki as autocratic. Read more here
Armed Israeli police attempted to halt the opening night of a prominent Palestinian literary festival in Jerusalem ordering a Palestinian theatre to close. Read more here