Hotel death sparks riots in Kurdish town
On May 4, 26-year old Farinaz Khosravani died when she jumped from the fourth story of the hotel building where she worked. At the time of Khosravani’s death, the room, in a hotel in the northwest Kurdish town of Mahabad, was occupied by an Intelligence Ministry employee. The media reported that Khosravani had been alone with the man prior to the incident.
When the news of the death broke, people responded quickly, and with violence. They broke windows. They threw anything they could their hands on, hurling them out of the hotel’s windows.
Source: Iran Wire
'I have a dream': Ayman Odeh's maiden Knesset speech
Ayman Odeh, the head of the Joint List, gave his maiden speech in Knesset this week. Odeh, a 40 year-old lawyer from Haifa, heads a list of parties representing Palestinian nationalists, Baathists, Islamists, and Jewish and Arab socialists.
Source: +972 Mag
The gas deal with Israel is bad news for Jordan and Jordanians know it
The majority of Jordanians oppose the deal, which is viewed as a threat to Jordan’s sovereignty and a means to strengthen Israel’s influence and control in the region. As Jordanians became increasingly critical of the agreement, the government claimed its energy sector was in crisis and there was no alternative but to import gas from Israel.
Source: Muftah
