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.

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 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

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


Voices from the Arab press: Is Iran interested in a deal?

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

IRANIAN PRESIDENT Ebrahim Raisi attends the Tehran International Conference on Palestine, in Tehran, last month.

Voices from the Arab press: If this isn’t a war, what exactly is it?

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

 PROTESTING OUTSIDE Istanbul’s US Consulate in Jan. 2020, after IRGC Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike outside Baghdad Airport earlier that month.

Voices from the Arab press: Did Hamas violate Sharia Law in its treatment of hostages?

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

 A MAN lights a candle next to a picture of the late Hersh Goldberg-Polin adorned with flowers, in Tel Aviv last week.

Voices from the Arab press: Will Macron pick a Muslim to head the new gov't?

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

 French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he speaks during an international humanitarian conference for civilians in Gaza, at the Elysee Presidential Palace, in Paris, France, on November 9, 2023.

Voices from the Arab press: One issue won’t be discussed at DNC

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

 ANOTHER DNC, another time, another cause: Escorting a protester to a squad car surrounded by dozens of anti-Vietnam War demonstrators, outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Voices from the Arab press: Iran's options for revenge

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

 ELIMINATED: IMAGES of assassinated Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif on Tel Aviv buildings, Aug. 2.

Voices from the Arab press: Japan and China spark new arms race in Asia

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

 HEZBOLLAH LEADER Hassan Nasrallah addresses a memorial service, in Lebanon last month, for Hezbollah senior commander Mohammed Nasser, killed in a June Israeli strike.

Voices from the Arab Press: Hezbollah plays up CNN interview

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

 HEZBOLLAH SPOKESMAN Ibrahim Moussawi speaks to The World Is One News, 2020.

Voices from the Arab press: Hamas is Terrorizing Gaza

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

 COMMEMORATING ASHURA with mourning rituals during the Islamic month of Muharramon, July 2023, Istanbul.

Voices from the Arab press: Iran's new president

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

 IRAN’S PRESIDENT-ELECT Masoud Pezeshkian at a gathering with supporters at the shrine of the ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran, Iran, earlier this month.