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Chairman says talks ongoing; manager hopes for outcome within the next two weeks Negotiations are ongoing with a Middle East-based consortium to buy English football club Leeds United with an outcome likely in the next two weeks, club... Read more
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Gulf students win reprieve in UK uni row Hundreds of overseas students at London Metropolitan University, including many from the Gulf region, have been given permission to continue their studies for now after previously facing deportation
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20-year old Ahmed Baraka from the war-torn Gaza Strip in Palestine has arrived in Bristol this week to begin his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at UWE. He is the first student from Gaza to be awarded the University of the West... Read more
Opinion
ON the night of Sept. 16, 1982, the Israeli military allowed a right-wing Lebanese militia to enter two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. In the ensuing three-day rampage, the militia, linked to the Maronite Christian Phalange Party, raped... Read more
Art and Culture
By Iqbal Tamimi Alhoush artistic project is organising a momentous celebration of Palestinian artist’s visual arts. Their new exhibition about how they see Gaza, is going to cross all boundaries since it will display their... Read more
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Bahrain’s Seera Investment bank inks deal for London student housing property; slated to open in 2013
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Opinion
By Iqbal Tamimi The third episode of the TV comedy series, Citizen Khan, has been aired on BBC One. The show has been watched by at least 3.6million viewers in its first week. And I would say it is a brilliant production that I have personally... Read more
Art and Culture
Islamic masterworks go on show in Doha US-based Sotheby’s, one of the world’s largest auctioneers of fine and decorative art, is staging an exhibition of Islamic arts in Qatar this weekend. Artefacts valued at millions of dollars... Read more
Herstory
Today at the Houses of Parliament, Maryam al-Khawaja asked MPs to put pressure on Bahrain to commit to reforms and free politcal prisoners, including her father and sister. Here, the prominent human rights defender denounces Britain’s... Read more
Opinion
Women and girls continue to be the worst affected by Syria’s conflict, but their suffering rarely makes the headlines
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