Sahar Abdullah Saleh

How the loss of entire families is ravaging the social fabric of Gaza

...Muhammad died alongside his father, Omar, a carpenter, his mother, Sahar, who worked in the sweets industry, his three brothers, Ahmed, 30, Mahmoud, 27, and Abdullah, 13, his sister, Shahd, whose age could...

December 13, 2023

Israel-Hamas war

Why desperately needed aid is failing to reach the people of Gaza

...Joe Biden, US president, said on Monday during a visit by Jordan’s King Abdullah that his country was “working to open other routes” for aid to enter the strip....

February 14, 2024

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

Israel-Hamas war

Small aid convoy reaches Gaza after Hamas releases two hostages

...King Abdullah of Jordan said he was “outraged” by attacks on civilians in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel and condemned what he called a “global silence” on Gaza....

October 21, 2023

Israel-Hamas war

Jordan cancels Biden summit after deadly explosion at Gaza hospital

...Jordan’s King Abdullah said the bombing, which he pinned on Israel, was a “massacre” and a war crime....

October 18, 2023

Israel-Hamas war

US, UK and Germany tell citizens to leave Lebanon amid fears of wider conflict

...Additional reporting by Neri Zilber, Heba Saleh and Samer Al-Atrush...

October 19, 2023

Israel-Hamas war

Biden warns Israel to avoid 9/11 ‘mistakes’

...Additional reporting by Heba Saleh, Bita Ghaffari, Najmeh Bozorgmehr and Felicia Schwartz...

October 18, 2023

FT Live

Africa Summit

Africa in a complex world

Yemen

Yemen’s embattled president cedes power to ruling council

...Hadi came to power a decade ago, after protests toppled the country’s veteran dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh....

April 7, 2022

David Gardner

Attack on Abu Dhabi risks upsetting a cautious detente in the Gulf

...The heterodox Shia Houthi movement that now controls most of north Yemen, including the capital, Sana’a, was in a state of revolt long before it helped overthrow Yemeni strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2012...

January 20, 2022

Syrian crisis

Arab nations defy US to build ties with Syria

...Additional reporting by Heba Saleh in Cairo and Andrew England in London...

October 24, 2021

Jordan

Jordan’s former crown prince pledges loyalty to king, royal court says

...King Abdullah wants to deal with the issues related to Prince Hamzah privately, he added....

April 5, 2021

News in-depthAfghanistan

Afghan resistance leader warns of uprising if no Taliban peace deal

...Hamid Karzai, the former Afghan president, and one-time peace negotiator Abdullah Abdullah have held talks with senior Taliban leaders over taking positions in the new regime, and securing protection from...

August 21, 2021

News in-depthJordan

Sibling feud at heart of Jordan’s royal family bursts into open

...Additional reporting by Heba Saleh in Cairo...

April 6, 2021

ObituaryAbdullah al-Hamid

Abdullah al-Hamid, Saudi reformer, 1951-2020

...Abdullah al-Hamid, the Saudi reformer, was a towering figure among political and human rights activists in the kingdom....

May 7, 2020

FT Magazine

The lost decade: voices of the Arab spring on what happened next

...A DEVASTATED YEMEN Yemen was already one of the most fragile Arab nations before uprisings erupted against its veteran president Ali Abdullah Saleh in the last days of January 2011....

January 14, 2021

David Gardner

A decade after Hosni Mubarak fell, Egypt is a diminished state

...In short order Muammer Gaddafi was toppled in Libya and Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen, while Syrians rose up against the dynastic dictatorship of the Assad family....

February 11, 2021

FT Live

Brazil Summit

Building a resilient and sustainable economy

David Gardner

Joe Biden should learn from the Arab uprising 10 years on

...Hosni Mubarak was toppled in Egypt, as was Muammer Gaddafi in Libya, and eventually Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen. Each of these army-backed Arab dictators had been in power for 20 to 40 years....

December 21, 2020

Middle Eastern politics & society

Middle East’s demographic earthquake: the generation fuelling protests

...A fan of women’s football, she persuaded organisers to allow her to be one of the 180 volunteers who ushered thousands of families to their seats at the King Abdullah Sports City arena....

February 10, 2020

News in-depthYemen

Saudi oil attack highlights Riyadh’s flawed Yemen war strategy

...What began as a complicated civil war, after the ousting of longstanding president Ali Abdullah Saleh in the wake of the 2011 Arab uprisings, mutated into a regional proxy conflict fuelled by Saudi Arabia...

September 18, 2019

News in-depthAfghanistan

US troop drawdown complicated by Afghanistan’s resurgent Taliban

...Abdullah....

August 13, 2019

Special ReportNew Trade Routes: Arab World

Egypt sees Chinese investment, and tourists as a ‘win-win’ boost

...Responding to these concerns, Sahar Nasr, Egypt’s investment minister, told Reuters earlier this month that her country accepted Chinese investments only in projects that were mutually beneficial....

October 30, 2018

Middle East & North Africa

Arab neighbours hope Khashoggi outrage will rein in Saudi prince

...King Abdullah of Jordan also attended....

November 3, 2018

Global Economy

Jordan PM quits after mass protests over taxes

...King Abdullah of Jordan, a US ally, has followed in his father’s pattern of dissolving governments to defuse public unrest....

June 4, 2018

World

Morocco’s biggest businesses hit by online boycott campaign

...In Jordan, days of protests over rising prices and subsidy cuts forced King Abdullah to sack his prime minister this week....

June 7, 2018

World

Former Yemen president shot dead during heavy fighting in Sana’a

...Former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed on Monday as his forces battled with Houthi rebels for control of Sana’a, the country’s capital....

December 4, 2017

Special ReportDoing Business in the Arab World

Egypt fights inflation after its currency devaluation

...Sahar Nasr, Egypt’s minister of investment, says these problems are being addressed under a new investment law that provides tax incentives and is intended to reduce red tape....

December 12, 2017

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