The Week in the Middle East looks at the increasing religious influence on the IDF, follow Palestinians trying to leave the Gaza strip and examine what Barrack Obama has achieved in the Middle East.
In this edition: no election in sight in Hamas-ruled Gaza; the battle for water between Israel and Palestine; anger boils over in Iraq after string of attacks; and the mystery man at the heart of a diplomatic row between France and Iran.
Our weekly round-up of the news from the Middle East looks at the fraught relationship between France and Iran, and features a meeting with Raed Salah, the self-proclaimed defender of Islam's third holiest site, the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
In this edition: thousands of Shiite Lebanese are expelled from the UAE for refusing to rat on their compatriotes; civilians get caught in the crossfire in Yemen's civil war; students at a Cairo university are divided over a proposed niqab ban.
In this edition: Israel's four-year old embargo on motor vehicles to Gaza doesn't stop cars from getting in; rebuilding Nahr el-Bared in Lebanon; why Iran's former president now seems to be falling in line.
In this edition: In Iran, the presidential election appears to have shifted the balance of power in favour of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; in Iraq, the fight of the wounded is far from over; and Israeli scientists help West Bank villagers go green.
In this Edition: A body language specialist offers pessimistic insights into the handshake between Israel's prime minister and the Palestinian president; a report on Yemen’s forgotten conflict; and focus on Saudi Arabia's first co-ed university.
In this edition: the neighbours' reaction when an Arab moves into a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem; a look at the row over Egypt's UNESCO candidacy; and in Egypt, a trip aboard one of Cairo's traffic-beating tuk-tuks.
We take you to the hometown of Salah Ezzedine, the man some describe as Lebanon's answer to Bernard Madoff. Also in today's show: as Jewish settlers keep on building in the West Bank, Palestinians are still forced to cross the border to find work.
In this edition: FRANCE 24 checks out the bling in Beirut during Islam's holiest month; shifting Shiite alliances in Iraq; a novel idea of 'tweeting" prayers and wishes to the Wailing Wall.
