Voices from the Arab press

Voices from the Arab press: Attacking civilians is never justified

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

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CCTV footage shows carnage following a strike on Kuwait International Airport, June 3.
LEBANESE CHILDREN play with toy soldiers in the southern city of Bint Jbail.

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.

|ByTHE MEDIA LINE
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 weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

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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

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

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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.

APRIL 12, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
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.

APRIL 6, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
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.

MARCH 23, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
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.

Voices from the Arab press: No truce in Gaza, what about south Lebanon?

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

MARCH 17, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
US ENVOY Amos Hochstein (L) meets with Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Beirut, March 4.

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.

FEBRUARY 24, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
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.

FEBRUARY 17, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
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.

FEBRUARY 10, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
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.

FEBRUARY 3, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
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.

JANUARY 28, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
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.

JANUARY 20, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
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.