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Tarek Ali Ahmad

Tarek Ali Ahmad

Tarek Ali Ahmad is a former journalist at Al Arabiya English and currently a media editor and journalist at Arab News. He covered the October 2019 protests in Lebanon and the country’s 2018 parliamentary elections, as well as the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos in 2020. He holds an MA in Human Rights Law from SOAS, University of London, and a BA in Media and Communication from the American University of Beirut. Twitter: @Tarek_AliAhmad

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 Exclusive: Q&A with CEO of Paytabs AbdulAziz Aljouf

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 Beirut’s ‘Wall of Kindness’ integrating social experiment with charity

Imagine a wall where you can hang your coat for the needy and walk away without a fuss. Call it social experiment, charity, or both rolled into one, such a structure – appropriately named the......

 MBC challenges extremist ideology with new drama series on woman of ISIS

The Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC) is producing a 30-part drama series named ‘Black Crows’ depicting life under ISIS to be aired on MBC1 during Ramadan. “ISIS is not only a......

 Barcelona beat Real Madrid at legends’ El Clasico in Lebanon

Real Madrid and Barcelona legends such as Ronaldinho, Nicolas Anelka and Roberto Carlos went head to head on Friday at the Camille Chamoun Sports City stadium in Lebanon for a friendly game - ending 3......

 Security forces enter Lebanon’s Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian camp after clashes

Local security forces were deployed across Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp - Lebanon’s most densely populated - on Thursday, a commander said. The deployment ended a week of sporadic......