Qatar's Al-Sadd starting eleven pose for a team photo prior to their AFC Champions League playoff football match against Iran's Esteghlal club at the Azadi stadium in Tehran on February 7, 2017. ATTA KENARE / AFP

Cameroon team players and Cameroon's Belgian coach Hugo Broos (C) celebrate with the winner's trophy after beating Egypt 2-1 to win the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations final football match between Egypt and Cameroon at the Stade de l'Amitie Sino-Gabonaise in Libreville on February 5, 2017. ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP

Depending on how you look at Trump’s Muslim Ban, there are much badder guys on the block than refugees from his big bad seven . Somalia, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan and Yemen might include two thirds of Bush's former axis of evil, and were already deemed suspect enough by Obama, but we would wager that a lot of the international incidents of late have involved nefarious nationals further afield the Muslim heartlands. Those Muslim majority countries that didn't make the cut could be forgiven for feeling rather spurned or ...

Tiger Woods of the United States follows his ball after playing a shot during the Dubai Desert Classic golf tournament at the Emirates Golf Club in Dubai on February 2, 2017. NEZAR BALOUT / AFP

US President Donald Trump’s ‘Muslim-ban’ has provoked worldwide condemnation, galvanising civil rights activists, political leaders and your average joe to protest on the streets and across social media . The executive order, which temporarily bans travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US, has promoted unprecedented expressions of tolerance and acceptance of refugees and immigrants across the West. Yet, while the world is up in arms over the implementation of ‘extreme vetting’ of visitors from these Muslim-majority countries, for most residents of the Middle East and North Africa this ...

A South Sudanese basketball wheelchair player train at the Juba Basketball Court on January 11, 2017, during a training session by the US Wheelchair Basketball coach. Invited by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jess Markt, is training for the next two weeks more than 30 players from Juba and Yirol, some of them displaced in protection camps because of the war and many affected by amputations and diseases such polio and spinal cord injuries. Jess Markt is an international wheelchair basketball coach and consultant specialized in organizing ...

Newly inaugurated President Trump has done little to hide his contempt towards the Middle East. One of his first acts as POTUS was to ban all visitors from a swathe of Muslim-majority countries in the region , including Syria, Iran and Iraq. Meanwhile, he has shown his disdain for the Palestinian cause by casually flirting with the inflammatory gesture of moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, as well as threatening to rip up the Iran nuclear deal. While he may seem to despise MENA, it has been pointed ...

Arab women in the Middle East are – it may surprise people to know – right on trend. They too love Vogue. They too fashion blog. They too dress to impress. In some Arab capitals, they dress to kill! Image, labels and sex-factor are everything for Beirutis! It's not all veils and abayas in the conservative Arab world*: Females living, studying and working in this part of the world dress à la mode for every occasion, with the more liberal ladies flashing as much flesh as one might do in ...

Moroccan supporters celebrate a victory after the end of the 2017 AFCON group C football match against the Ivory Coast in Rabat on January 24, 2017. Defending champions the Ivory Coast were sent packing after losing 1-0. A brilliant Rachid Alioui goal gave Morocco the victory in Oyem in northern Gabon as the Atlas Lions marched on to the quarter-finals. FADEL SENNA / AFP

Qatar's pivot Bassel Alrayes (L) jumps to shoot on goal against Germany's goalkeeper Andreas Wolff during the 25th IHF Men's World Championship 2017 eighth final handball match Germany vs Qatar on January 22, 2017 at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris. THOMAS SAMSON / AFP

At the end of last year, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution condemning Israel's settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem . The resolution was particularly noteworthy due to the United States taking the unusual decision to abstain on the resolution, allowing it to pass rather than vetoing. But will the new resolution make a difference to the peace process and Israel’s policy of settlement expansion? Since Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has ...