Aya Batrawy

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Rights group: Saudis deport 12,000 Somalis

Aya Batrawy · February 19, 2014 3:51 pm

Dubai vying to be world’s next fashion capital

Aya Batrawy · February 14, 2014 4:18 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 file photo, Visitors watch a model for the Falconcity project during the second day of a real estate fair called Cityscape Global in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A global property consultant said Monday there are worrying signs that Dubai could be facing another economic bubble after property prices jumped more than 22 percent last year and rents by 17 percent. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Dubai real estate still at risk of another bubble

Aya Batrawy · February 10, 2014 5:19 pm

Pakistani child, Saddam Patang, 2, cries while sitting on a wooden cart as he awaits his father outside their home on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. Saddam's father, mother and his grandparents fled their home from Pakistan's tribal region of Mohmand Agency eight year ago due to fighting between the Taliban and the army and took refuge in Islamabad. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

IMF: Pakistan economy improving, reform on track

Aya Batrawy · February 9, 2014 4:49 pm

FILE - In this Sunday, Dec 29, 2013 file photo, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah speaks during a meeting at the Saudi Royal palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah has ratified a new counter-terrorism law which went into effect Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. Rights activists said that the law criminalizes speech critical of the government or society. It was published in full in the government's official gazette Um Al-Qura Friday. (AP Photo/Kenzo Tribouillard, Pool, File)

New Saudi counterterrorism law alarms activists

Aya Batrawy · February 2, 2014 5:40 pm

UAE summons Qatar envoy to protest Islamist cleric

Aya Batrawy · February 2, 2014 5:05 pm

An Egyptian fishes with a net in the Nile River, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. Egyptian officials tried to cool tensions with Ethiopia Wednesday over the new Nile River dam project by highlighting its "neighborliness" as the Ethiopian prime minister's spokesman insisted that nothing would stop the dam from being completed upstream from Egypt, which is wholly dependent on Nile River water. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Egypt warns all options open for Ethiopia Nile dam

Maggie Michael, Aya Batrawy · June 10, 2013 4:00 am

Egypt president sends draft NGO law to parliament

Aya Batrawy · May 27, 2013 9:07 pm

20 flights without bags after Egypt airport strike

Aya Batrawy · May 18, 2013 9:12 pm

Egyptian bystander killed in PM convoy shooting

Aya Batrawy · May 6, 2013 1:46 pm

Egypt police: Men fire birdshot at PM’s convoy

Aya Batrawy · May 5, 2013 11:10 pm

FILE - In this Monday, April 29, 2013 file photo, a Yemeni man holds a banner during a protest to denounce American drone attacks in Yemen, in front of the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen. A public backlash is starting to grow in Yemen over civilians killed by American drones as the U.S. dramatically steps up its strikes against al-Qaida's branch here the past year. Relatives of those killed say the missile blasts hitting their towns only turn Yemenis against the U.S. campaign to crush militants. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

As US drone strikes rise in Yemen, so does anger

Aya Batrawy, Ahmed AlHaj · May 2, 2013 4:00 am