US aid to Yemen has been rotting away in a Virginia warehouse for eight years
Two hundred parcels of U.S. taxpayer-paid supplies intended to help Yemen protect itself from terrorists have been literally rotting away in a private storage facility in Virginia since 2007.
The items “remain unshipped in a private warehouse in Virginia rather than meeting the intended goal of building and maintaining Yemeni security forces’ capability to counter threats such as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP),” wrote the Government Accountability Office in a report issued Wednesday.
How one Palestinian entrepreneur is making greeting cards cool again
Think no one sends greeting cards anymore? Turns out greeting cards are still popular. But we’re not talking about just any cards, but edgy, innovative Arabic language greeting cards.
Loz Project, founded by Maysa Al Shaer, a 24-year-old entrepreneur from Jenin in northern of Palestine, aims at reviving the Arabian folk culture through its pretty designs and colloquial Palestinian expressions and phrases.
Beyond the Arab-Berber divide in Algeria
Twenty-two people died last week in the region of Ghardaia, 600 kilometers south of Algiers, during clashes between the Chaamba Arab and Mozabite Berber populations. While the region has witnessed regular clashes between the two communities, this was the deadliest incident since December 2013, when dozens of people lost their lives in a similar confrontation.
These recent waves of violence have often been depicted as an ethnic conflict between Arabs and Berbers, who make up roughly twenty-five percent – an estimated 9 million people – of the Algerian population.
