Voices from the Arab press

Voices from the Arab press: Education across the Middle East

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

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

CENTRAL TO Israel’s push is its effort to influence the rapidly expanding ecosystem of AI-powered chatbots.

Voices from the Arab Press: Israel's AI, Hezbollah ceasefire, Saudi shift


Voices from the Arab press: Niqab crisis will strike Egypt sooner or later

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

 A NIQAB-CLAD woman prays in Cairo.

Voices from the Arab press: The Nile is a life-or-death issue

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

 EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT Gamal Abdel Nasser (R) meets with Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie in Cairo, 1950s.

Voices from the Arab press: What are the true objectives behind the war?

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

 JABALIYA, GAZA CITY, seen on October 11, 2023.

Voices from the Arab press: The limits of Iran's regional proxies

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

 ROYAL NAVY coastal minesweeper ‘HMS Wilton’ takes part in Operation Rheostat to clear Egypt’s Suez Canal of mines, 1974.Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/ Getty Images

Voices from the Arab press: Iraq: Battleground for waning factions settling scores

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

A member of Hashd al-Shaabi (paramilitary forces) holds a flag of Kataib Hezbollah militia group during a protest to condemn air strikes on their bases, in Baghdad, Iraq December 31, 2019

Voices from the Arab press: Gaza war negatively affected US presence in region

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

 HOUTHI REBELS aboard the ‘Galaxy Leader’ provide a Nov. 22 tour of this  Bahamas-flagged, British- owned cargo ship, seized  two days earlier. The vessel, docked in a port on the Red Sea in the Yemeni province of Hodeida, flew Palestinian and Yemeni flags.

Voices from the Arab Press: Designating Hamas a terror org. isn’t enough

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

 Shopping at the Mall of Egypt in Giza, 2020

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