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: Kuwaiti vs Japanese morals

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

 TUNISIA’S PRESIDENT Kais Saied meets with newly appointed Prime Minister Najla Bouden Romdhane, in Tunis, last month.

Voices from the Arab press: Disaster of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait

What is happening in Lebanon is one big tragedy that the international media refuses to recount

 DEMONSTRATORS TAKE cover this week during clashes with security forces during a protest near Beiruts’s parliament, as Lebanon marks the one-year anniversary of the explosion in the city.

Voices from the Arab press: What are the Syrian deposits in Lebanon?

Is it true that Syrian citizens hold such large deposits in Lebanon? A look at the data might reveal a different picture than the one painted by the Syrian regime.

 Saudi Health Minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah announces the Kingdom's Hajj plan, in Riydh, June 12

Voices from the Arab press: Regulate social media before it's too late

Yes, there are celebrities who provide wonderful, informative and useful content on social media. However, the overwhelming majority of them in Saudi Arabia post poor content that opposes our values.

DANGER: WHOEVER creates a Clubhouse room immediately controls the conversation.

Voices from the Arab press: Will Iraqis boycott the next election?

The 2021 Iraqi parliamentary elections are scheduled to take place in October. Will the scenario we witnessed in the previous elections of 2018 be repeated? Will Iraqis boycott the election en masse?

THE DANISH flag.

Voices from the Arab press: Juncture in Ethiopian-Egyptian relations

In what can only be interpreted as a blatant act of defiance, Ethiopia launched the second filling of the Renaissance Dam, ignoring international law and turning its back on a diplomatic solution.

SUPPORTERS OF Syrian President Bashar Assad celebrate after he won a fourth term in office, in Damascus on May 27

Voices from the Arab Press: Egypt and Qatar - Looks can be deceiving

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

POPE FRANCIS meets with poetess and Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck in Rome on February 20.

Voices from the Arab Press: The far right - a threat to US democracy

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

RALLYING IN support of US president Donald Trump at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem on January 6.

Voices from the Arab Press: Twitter in Saudi Arabia

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

Twitter in Saudi Arabia

Voices from the Arab press: Goodbye Trump, Hello Biden

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

GETTING VACCINATED in Kuwait City in late December.