How Inflation is Driving a New Wave of Malnutrition in Yemen, Nigeria

Niyi Oyedeji and Sahar Mohammed

Soaring prices of food in Yemen and Nigeria are predisposing more households to malnutrition as both countries face insurgency and weak local currency.

On Daraj

Culture

Lebanon: Music as a Reflection of the Political Turmoil

Luka Baum
– Swiss Journalist
Investigations

Tripoli: At Home with the Man who Lost His Children in the “Death Boat”

Soheib Jawhar
– Lebanese Journalist
Opinion

Syria: When I Saw My Forcibly Disappeared Friend on YouTube

Malath Al-Zoobi
– Syrian Journalist
News

Egypt: Three Years in Prison to Preserve the Country’s Morals

Omar Salam
– Egyptian Journalist
Investigations

Egypt: A Killing, Koshari and the Long Night of Christians

Hani Mohamad
– Egyptian Journalist
Opinion

The BBC Offers 30 Minutes of Space for Assad Regime Propaganda

Adel Haddad
The already bleak prospects of the Syrian economy have worsened in recent months with the Lebanese crisis, the enactment of the Caesar Act and now the coronavirus pandemic. This paper examines their impact on the Syrian economy and the population at large.
Read more about it on the Arab Reform Initiative

More news

News

We Welcomed Abu Dhabi Before Assad Did

Hazem El Amin
The “Anti-Israeli Resistance” was never born out of a just cause or a lack of justice. Its members will applaud Bashar al-Assad wherever he goes, starting with his sending volunteers to Russia and ending with his visit to Abu Dhabi. The Abraham Accords do not pose any problems to them when the Emirates are on their side in their wars against their peoples, and their relationship with Vladimir Putin is a good example of this.
News

Egypt: The Attack on Mona Zaki and The State of Denial

Eman Adel
“What makes the attack on the film laughable is the fact that it is a remake of the Italian movie Perfect Strangers, which was shown at the 2016 Cairo Film Festival, winning both the Best Screenplay Award and the Golden Pyramid Award for Best Film, and went on to be screened in Egyptian cinema.”
News

Lebanon: Religious Court Thwarts Lilian Chaito from Traveling for Treatment

Diana Moukalled
Lilian Chaito is a double victim. She is a victim of the Beirut port explosion and she is the victim of an archaic patriarchal system, which prevents her from seeing her son and traveling for treatment in Turkey…

More investigations

Investigations

The long long way towards the digital transformation of the public sector and the fight against corruption

KLEMITDAOUD
Clement Gibon and MJ Daoud
Investigations

Jordanian Human Rights Defenders and Journalists Hacked with Pegasus Spyware  

Mohammad Al-Maskiti – Bill Markzack
The devices of four Jordanian human rights defenders, lawyers, and journalists were hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware between August 2019 and December 2021. The targets include those working against corruption in Jordan. 
Investigations

Lebanon: Hezbollah’s Image is As Important as Weapons

Mariam Seifeddine
Ever since Hezbollah’s establishment in the early 1980s, the camera has always accompanied the gun. To Lebanon’s “Party of God,” visuals are as important as arms. In fact, its arms would not have had the power they have, were it not for the power of the image.

Opinion

MAYSAAEKBIK

In absence there is greater presence

Palestine. Palestine. Palestine. Never to be silenced. Rest in peace Shereen Abu Aqhleh.
Malath Al-Zoobi

Syria: When I Saw My Forcibly Disappeared Friend on YouTube

Bassel would take me into Damascus’ side streets and alleys to “secret” restaurants and shops selling the best pies, sweets and shawarma. I would never have tasted them otherwise. He was arrested in 2013 and never heard from again. Until I saw him on YouTube…

Culture

Lebanon: Music as a Reflection of the Political Turmoil

Luka Baum
– Swiss Journalist

The Hunger Games: Worked to Death in Egypt

Moustapha Alaasar
– Egyptian Writer and Journalist

Children of Syria… Begging for Bread and Matches

Farrah Akbik
– Syrian Journalist

Living In a Country That Hates You

Nayla Rida
– Moroccan Journalist

Gender

Hail Sultana: On Drag as Art, Performance, and Expression 

Tracy Jawad
– Lebanese Journalist and Political Researcher

Lebanon: 9 Years Later, Yacoub’s Husband and Killer Finally Convicted

Maya El Ammar
– Lebanese Journalist

Climate Justice Requires Gender Justice: a Call to Action for Leaders in Lebanon This International Women’s Day 

Daraj Team

Iraq: The People and Their Problems are Left to the Shrines …

Aya Mansour
– Iraqi Journalist
Play Video
Be “Dangerous”, Not SilentMisogyny is rooted in our societies, both legally and culturally. “She’s Dangerous” chose to confront these issues with comedy…

6:10

Play Video
Ghalia Al Alwani is a Syrian academic living in Beirut, Lebanon. In this video she expresses how in the aftermath of the Beirut Port Explosion, like many of the youth that were still in the country, she has lost hope in any change. She explains that the corrupt ruling class in Lebanon don’t prioritize the youth, which is why many of them leave.

2:20

The English Section of Daraj News is co-supported by Anne Avis

Back to the top
Instagram Twitter Facebook Youtube
لتصلكم نشرة درج الى بريدكم الالكتروني