Voices from the Arab press

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.

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

Split screen of two videos of blasts, one shot in thermal imaging, that show the IDF destroying underground infrastructure used by Hezbollah, in Majdal Zoun, southern Lebanon. Videos released June 28.

Voices from the Arab press: Victory from which there is no escape

 Strait pf Hormuz: Iranian policeman?

Voices from the Arab press: Handing the Strait of Hormuz to Iran and the Gulf


Voices from the Arab press: Riyadh’s diplomatic role

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

 CARS AND people surround camels for sale during the annual King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Rumah, Saudi Arabia.

Voices from the Arab press: The US elections and the Gaza war

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

 PALESTINIANS FROM the Ansar brigade burn effigies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during a military drill in Khan Yunis.

Voices from the Arab press: Will Lebanon defeat Israel? Yes – this is how

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

 A firefighting plane attempts to extinguish a fire resulting from Lebanese missiles, in Safed, Oct. 20, 2024.

Voices from the Arab press: Iran’s policy of strategic patience

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

 IRANIAN MILITARY truck carries surface-to-air missiles past a portrait of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran.

Voices from the Arab press: What will become of Hezbollah?

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

 ASSASSINATED HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah – with a black stripe for mourning – is displayed during a broadcast from private Lebanese station NBN, in Beirut, Sept. 28.

Voices from the Arab press: Is Iran interested in a deal?

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

IRANIAN PRESIDENT Ebrahim Raisi attends the Tehran International Conference on Palestine, in Tehran, last month.

Voices from the Arab press: If this isn’t a war, what exactly is it?

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

 PROTESTING OUTSIDE Istanbul’s US Consulate in Jan. 2020, after IRGC Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike outside Baghdad Airport earlier that month.

Voices from the Arab press: Did Hamas violate Sharia Law in its treatment of hostages?

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

 A MAN lights a candle next to a picture of the late Hersh Goldberg-Polin adorned with flowers, in Tel Aviv last week.

Voices from the Arab press: Will Macron pick a Muslim to head the new gov't?

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

 French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he speaks during an international humanitarian conference for civilians in Gaza, at the Elysee Presidential Palace, in Paris, France, on November 9, 2023.

Voices from the Arab press: One issue won’t be discussed at DNC

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

 ANOTHER DNC, another time, another cause: Escorting a protester to a squad car surrounded by dozens of anti-Vietnam War demonstrators, outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.