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Rabaa massacre Rabaa square nine year anniversary

8 min

A tale of two cities: Rabaa Massacre remembered by Egyptians in Doha

“Rabaa should last in the memory of every Egyptian resisting the coup, against the repression, against the imprisonment that’s ongoing in Egypt.” Blood streamed through the streets of eastern Cairo…

6 min

Is my family alive?: Gazans in Qatar recount haunting moments of Israeli aggression from afar

Doha News spoke to Gazans who live in Qatar, and what its like watching the war from miles away, not knowing if your loved ones are safe.. or even alive.…

10 min

The horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: reflections from Qatar’s Japanese residents

The buzzing sounds of Boeing’s B-29 Superfortress, dubbed Enola Gay, covered the skies of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Its residents did not know that the seconds prior to that…

6 min

Lebanon’s open wound: two years and no accountability since tragic Beirut Port blast

Qatar was quick to extend a helping hand to Lebanon following the tragic event. Shards of glass scattered across the city, clocks fixated at 6:09pm and regular fires at the…

6 min

DAWN urges release of ‘pro-Qatar’ prisoners in Bahrain amid rapprochement

Activists say Bahrain has more than 1,000 political prisoners, the highest per capita in the region. Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) has called on Bahraini authorities to release…

10 min

Qatar ‘unlikely’ to jeopardise credibility by normalising with Israel: analysts

US President Joe Biden is expected to use his visit to the Middle East to push Saudi Arabia to normalise diplomatic and economic relations with the Zionist state, but should…

6 min

Doha Renews: fast fashion and shopping sustainably

Fast fashion is the second largest polluting industry in the world. It produces 10% of the global CO2 emissions, that’s more than airplane and ship traffic combined. A sense of…

10 min

Middle East NATO: will the US’ ‘elusive quest’ of an alliance become a reality?

In a Washington Post op-ed published a week ahead of the visit, Biden wrote that he will “pursue diplomacy intensely” in a bid to avoid instability. Talks over an alleged…

4 min

Journeying through loss: up-close and personal with Qatari filmmaker Majid Al-Remaihi

Qatari filmmaker Majid Al-Remaihi channels his emotions into visual art, expressing his journey in making sense of his mother’s memory loss. Majid Al-Remaihi was just 19 years old when his…

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