Ali Lmrabet

It goes without saying that nothing is going well between Morocco and Algeria. Everyone is convinced that relations between the two major Maghreb countries have reached a point of no return, and observers are on the lookout for the slightest incident on the ground that could trigger a dramatic acceleration in tension and give rise to a dramatic exodus to Europe much more consistent than the current one.

R ussian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was assassinated by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, a police officer from the Ankara Police Department, during the opening of a photography exhibition at the Çağdaş Sanat Merkezi contemporary arts center in Ankara on December 19, 2016. After the assassination, Altıntaş, shouting slogans of the terrorist Salafist/jihadist Jabhat al-Nusra, engaged in a confrontation with police officers who came to arrest him and was fatally shot.

A mid massive Israeli shillings and constant explosions in 2009, my family and I were forced to evacuate our home in Gaza. This evacuation saga would repeat itself later, as Israel’s attacks on Gaza became frequent. We hastily gathered near a dusty road trying to hide in a basement. I was barely nine years old at the time. My parents would claim the bombing was a game we played to distract us from the harsh reality we lived in.