Oliver Mizzi

1 week ago | newarab.com | Oliver Mizzi

Some left-wing protesters in Israel are now calling Israel's war on Gaza a genocide [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images] In the past few months, Israel's anti-war movement has grown from a fringe array of activists to encompass a powerful opposition bloc challenging the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

3 weeks ago | newarab.com | Oliver Mizzi

The town of Tawila in North Darfur has become a major refuge for displaced people following the mass exodus from Zamzam refugee camp in April, creating what Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has described as a "desperate" humanitarian situation. MSF told The New Arab that approximately 500,000 people were now sheltering in and around Tawila. Services in the town have been rapidly scaled up to cope with the influx.

4 weeks ago | newarab.com | Oliver Mizzi

Coskun was accused of behaviour likely to cause "harassment, alarm, or distress" after burning a copy of the Quran [Getty] Charges against a man who burned a Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London have been altered amid a right-wing backlashHamit Coskun, 50, set fire to the Quran outside the Turkish embassy, claiming this was in solidarity with Iraqi asylum seeker Salwan Momika who was shot dead in January 2025 after burning multiple copies of the Quran in Sweden.

2 months ago | newarab.com | Oliver Mizzi

Around six million Syrians were made refugees following the outbreak of civil war in 2011 [BAKR ALKASEM/AFP via Getty Images] A new Syrian organisation dedicated to searching for missing people was formed during a session of the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. The Association of Families of Missing Asylum Seekers (AFOMAS) will focus on discovering information about Syrians who disappeared while attempting to seek refuge abroad.

2 months ago | newarab.com | Oliver Mizzi

The coming of the end of Ramadan means the festival of Eid al-Fitr is near - but when exactly will Muslims celebrate this, and how is that determined? Moon sightingThe Islamic calendar is based on lunar phases, unlike the Gregorian calendar which follows the movement of the earth around the sun. For this reason, the beginning and end of each of the Islamic calendar's 12 months are determined by the sighting of the moon's new crescent.