Internal News – Arab Millennial

AM now open to feedback during standard UK business opening hours

02/09/201702/09/2017 Osama Filali Naji

As we wanted to hear your feedback and be more consistently open to new opportunities, we have decided to appoint a Marketing Executive, Zineb Taouaf. Therefore, Arab Millennial now operates during standard UK business working hours. Whilst improvements to our web servers mean that our website will, of course, remain open to our 20,000 global monthly users at all hours of the day, we are now also open to receiving queries and article submissions, and will respond to these queries, from Monday to Sunday, 09:00 to 17:00, British Standard Time. Your opinions…

AM attends European Council on Foreign Relations roundtable on Yemen

09/08/201709/08/2017 Osama Filali Naji

On Thursday 3rd August, our Senior Adviser, Lawrence Joffe, represented Arab Millennial at an ECFR roundtable on Yemen. Other attendees at ECFR’s London address included human rights lawyers, journalists, ambassadors and regional business stakeholders. The discussion centred on the extent to which foreign trade should be conducted with Yemen in light of human rights abuses in the country. AM had contributed to the discussion, liaised with potential partners and hopes to influence policy – albeit indirectly – in the region.

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Author Lawrence Joffe Takes on Advisory Role at Arab Millennial

02/02/201702/02/2017 Osama Filali Naji

For those of you that follow Arab Millennial closely, you may already be aware of our good relationship with author, editor, writer and journalist Lawrence Joffe. Today, that relationship has taken a more formal capacity. Lawrence Joffe writes articles for the Guardian, has edited a variety of books on Middle Eastern politics, and has authored his own Illustrated History of the Jewish People. In his advisory capacity at Meretz UK and the Arab-Jewish Forum, and as a writer at BBC News, Lawrence has always been an active advocate for equal rights for Arabs and…

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Arab Millennial Website Hack

30/12/201630/12/2016 Osama Filali Naji

Over the course of the last week, the Arab Millennial website was hacked by a malicious individual or organisation. They entered our server and database and corrupted most of our files to try to force us to start the website from scratch. Fortunately, we keep regular backups of our website every twenty-four hours, so the website is not only back to normal, but we are now working closely with a software company to screen all visits to our website and redirect suspicious activity within a matter of milliseconds. This should not…