Fanack.com of the Middle East and North Africa

31/10/2025

By documenting atrocities and gathering evidence, Radio Dabanga plays an indispensable role in paving the path for future justice and accountability.

Supporting such independent media is a necessity for saving lives.

30/10/2025

Long before political Zionism emerged, small, marginal Protestant sects in Europe developed restorationist theologies centered on the biblical land.

13/10/2025

One of the yet unanswered questions that hangs over the destruction of Gaza and its people is why the world watched a livestreamed genocide for about a year and a half without intervening.

One of the yet unanswered questions that hangs over of Gaza is why the world watched a livestreamed genocide without intervening.

30/09/2025

The Levant has long been a mosaic of peoples. Armenians, Christians, Muslims, Druze, and Jews have shared its cities for centuries, usually within plural systems that balanced diversity without demanding uniformity.

The Levant has long been a mosaic of peoples.

24/09/2025

Alaa Abdel Fattah was granted a presidential pardon and released on 23 September 2025, reuniting with his family in Giza a day after the decree was announced. The clemency was applied to Abdel Fattah along with five other detainees.

Since President Abdul Fattah Sisi entered power in 2014, the dissident has spent the most of his time in prison or under police custody.

21/09/2025

On 16 September 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini died, two days after having been arrested for showing a lock of hair.

The problems are not new, but the artistic and coherent way in which Shervin has put them together has a huge emotional impact.

11/09/2025

Israel’s strategic use of legal ambiguity and tactical denial has successfully shielded it from accountability for decades. However, the meticulous counter-archive of verified strikes challenges this erasure.

Documentation becomes a vital form of resistance.

19/08/2025

While Jews and Palestinians have a right to exist, a state built on oppression does not.

Israel has repeatedly violated international law and ignored UN resolutions.

15/08/2025

Born and raised in Bahrain, Al-Shafei (1986) was disturbed by the rampant violations of migrant rights in her country. She held a firm belief that being silent was equivalent to being complicit, and wanted to create an initiative to document these abuses and advocate change.

Esra’a Al-Shafei envisions a society that celebrates diversity of people and ideas, and where "equality, freedom of religion and speech is the norm, instead of censorship, slavery and normalization of occupation".

24/07/2025

With the fall of the Asad regime, the long-standing dominance of Alawites has come to an end. Power has once again shifted—primarily—to members of the Sunni majority, as was the case before the Ba‘th Party rose to power in 1963.

With the fall of the Asad regime, the long-standing dominance of Alawites has come to an end.

18/07/2025

What happened in July 1968, was, however, a double coup. After several army leaders overthrew the sitting administration in cooperation with the Baath Party, they were in turn swept from the stage by the Baathists two weeks later.

Fanack provides an overview of the Baath party and how it seized power in Iraq in 1963 after overthrowing Qasim's government in military coup

16/07/2025

Hafiz al-Asad maintained virtually absolute control over every aspect of Syrian life.