Voices from the Arab press

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.

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

ALI AKBAR VELAYATI (2nd L), top Iranian adviser on international affairs, attends a World Federation of Resistance Scholars conference on ‘resistance to liberate, terrorism to destroy,’ in Beirut, 2016.

Voices from the Arab press: Trump's Muslim Brotherhood designation

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince MBS in the White House’s Oval Office, Nov. 18.

Voices from the Arab Press: The Trump-MBS meeting and AI


Voices from the Arab Press: American attitudes towards the region

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

 CANDIDATES DONALD TRUMP and Joe Biden face off during the final presidential debate of that election season, Oct. 22, 2020.

Voices from the Arab press: Egypt: Difficult decisions toward Israel

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

 PALESTINIANS FLEE Rafah with their belongings, May 28.

Voices from the Arab press: Who will lead Iran next?

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

 IRANIAN PRESIDENT Ebrahim Raisi, known as the ‘Butcher of Tehran,’ meets his eternal end at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran, May 23.

Voices from the Arab press: Are we seeing a resurgence of 1960s protests?

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

Palestinians and pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest in front of the Greek parliament, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Athens, Greece, May 7, 2024.

Voices from the Arab press: Israel and the question of deterrence

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

 IN IRAN’S central city of Isfahan.

Voices from the Arab press: Iran is at the forefront, and Gaza is being sidelined

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

 PALESTINIAN GUERRILLAS patrol the Amman streets in Sept. 1970, after a civil war – known as Black September – broke out between the Jordanian army and various Palestinian forces.

Voices from the Arab press: Cairo negotiations: Why are mediators optimistic?

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

 DONALD TRUMP arrives for his first 2024 presidential campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport in Texas, March 25. The rally coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Waco standoff.

Voices from the Arab press: Iran and Israel: Is the denial game over?

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

 PORTRAIT OF IRGC generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haj Rahimi, slain in an April 1 Israeli airstrike and noted as ‘Martyrs of Quds’ [Jerusalem], seen on a Tehran street.

Voices from the Arab press: Lebanon: Immediate ceasefire or inevitable disaster

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

 BURNING AN Israeli flag during a Hezbollah-organized demonstration, in Sidon, Lebanon, 2017.

Voices from the Arab press: Will Israel find opportunity to strike Iran nuke facility?

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

 PROTESTING THE Iranian regime with flags and a huge inflated figure representing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei holding a nuclear bomb, near the Munich Security Conference venue, Feb. 16.