Voices from the Arab press

Voices from the Arab press: Mecca pact will strengthen security, stability

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

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(From L) TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chat after signing a joint defense agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 7.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (L) welcomes Lebanese President Aoun at the presidential palace in Ankara, July 30.

Voices from the Arab press: A new pathway for Lebanon

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

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SATELLITE VIEW shows vehicles at an entrance to Pickaxe Mountain tunnels, near Natanz nuclear facility, in Iran, June 21.

Voices from the Arab press: The Red Sea, redrawing the war map

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

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Military equipment targeted at an unknown location, during what US CENTCOM says are strikes on Iran, in this video screengrab released July 20.

Voices from the Arab press: Iranian calamities, Netanyahu's rule, and state legitimacy

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

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Voices from the Arab press: The Grand Egyptian Museum, Mamdani, and Gaza

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

NOVEMBER 15, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
ARTIFACTS FROM the King Tutankhamun collection are displayed after the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), in Giza, Nov. 4.

Voices from the Arab Press: Israel, Donald Trump, and Anwar Sadat

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

NOVEMBER 8, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and prime minister Menachem Begin acknowledge applause during a joint session of Congress in which US president Jimmy Carter announced the results of the Camp David Accords on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 18, 1978.

Voices from the Arab Press: Gaza's reconstruction dilemma

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

OCTOBER 24, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
AMID THE Gaza rubble, Oct. 20.

Voices from the Arab Press: Trump plan, Palestinian state, Gaza economy

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

OCTOBER 18, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
HAMAS HAS sought to preserve US administration backchannels – counting on sympathetic figures such as Adam Boehler, US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs. Pictured: Boehler meets with Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul, Sept. 13.

Voices from the Arab Press: Tony Blair and Gaza’s ‘day-after’

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

OCTOBER 12, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
TONY BLAIR, then-Quartet representative to the Middle East, visits a UN-run school for Palestinians, 2015.

Voices from the Arab Press: The world's message to Netanyahu

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

OCTOBER 5, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference in the State Dining Room at the White House, in Washington, DC, US, September 29, 2025

Voices from the Arab press: Trump, Israel, and Gaza

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
US President Donald Trump speaks with the media on the day of the signing of an executive order to rename the Department of Defense the "Department of War", in the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, DC, US, September 5, 2025.

Voices from the Arab press: Between the Yalta and Alaska summits

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

AUGUST 30, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH of three world leaders attending the Yalta Conference in February 1945, in Crimea: (front row, L-R) British prime minister Winston Churchill, US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

Voices from the Arab press: The new elite in Egypt

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

AUGUST 22, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
Cairo, Egypt.

Voices from the Arab press: Macron’s promise and Great Britain’s historical burden

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

AUGUST 9, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
FRENCH PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron (C), and Hani al-Hayek, Palestinian Authority minister for heritage and tourism, visit the exhibition ‘Treasures Rescued from Gaza’ at the Arab World Institute in Paris, April 14, 2025.