Voices from the Arab press

Voices from the Arab press: Bint Jbail, Trump's options, and Lebanon's courage

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

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LEBANESE CHILDREN play with toy soldiers in the southern city of Bint Jbail.
The Liberia-flagged tanker ‘Shenlong Suezmax,’ loaded with Saudi Arabian crude, arrives at a port after transiting the Strait of Hormuz amid supply disruptions, in Mumbai, India, March 12.

Voices from the Arab press: Iran threatens global shipping in Strait of Hormuz

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

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A TURKISH petroleum engineer poses on the helipad of Turkish drilling vessel ‘Yavuz’ in the eastern Mediterranean Sea off Cyprus.

Voices from the Arab press: Turkey’s strategic bet on energy

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

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EGYPTIAN PRIME MINISTER Mostafa Kamal Madbouly speaks to the media during a press conference for the Grand Egyptian Museum opening, in Giza, Nov. 1.

Voices from the Arab press: Education across the Middle East

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

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Voices from the Arab press: Syria after Assad: Four urgent challenges

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

DECEMBER 20, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
A TORN portrait of deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad inside the ransacked Presidential Palace in Damascus, December 10, 2024.

Voices from the Arab press: Trump should pressure Israel, not Hamas

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

DECEMBER 16, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, during his first term as US president, arrive to deliver joint remarks on the ‘Deal of the Century’ proposal, at the White House in 2020.

Voices of the Arab press: Russian-Western escalation: Dangerous game, unpredictable results

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

DECEMBER 7, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
DAMAGED STATUE of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin in the Russian town of Sudzha, Kursk region, seen in August 2024.

Voices from the Arab press: Can Trump bring an end to bloody wars?

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

NOVEMBER 23, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
Donald Trump

Voices from the Arab press: Save UNRWA!

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

NOVEMBER 16, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
PALESTINIANS QUEUE for food distributed by UNRWA at a Gaza camp, 1956.

Voices from the Arab press: Riyadh’s diplomatic role

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

NOVEMBER 10, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
CARS AND people surround camels for sale during the annual King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Rumah, Saudi Arabia.

Voices from the Arab press: The US elections and the Gaza war

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

NOVEMBER 2, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
PALESTINIANS FROM the Ansar brigade burn effigies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during a military drill in Khan Yunis.

Voices from the Arab press: Will Lebanon defeat Israel? Yes – this is how

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

OCTOBER 26, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
A firefighting plane attempts to extinguish a fire resulting from Lebanese missiles, in Safed, Oct. 20, 2024.

Voices from the Arab press: Iran’s policy of strategic patience

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

OCTOBER 17, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
IRANIAN MILITARY truck carries surface-to-air missiles past a portrait of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran.

Voices from the Arab press: What will become of Hezbollah?

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

OCTOBER 14, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
ASSASSINATED HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah – with a black stripe for mourning – is displayed during a broadcast from private Lebanese station NBN, in Beirut, Sept. 28.