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The skies over Port Sudan, once a sanctuary from Sudan's spiralling civil war, now carry the buzz of drones and clouds of burning fuel

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By pulling the plug on an unwinnable military entanglement in Yemen, Trump struck a deal with the Houthis that sidelined a key regional US ally, Israel

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Turkey's response to Israel's war on Gaza reflects a careful balancing act between impassioned principles and the constraints of geopolitics

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Israel has adopted a more aggressive and high-risk approach that readily employs military force to escalate conflicts to reshape the regional balance of power

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As tensions flared between India and Pakistan, Middle Eastern powers cautiously sought to preserve their ties with both countries and de-escalate tensions

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Aligning with US and Israeli designs, Mahmoud Abbas's plan to disarm Palestinian factions in Lebanon could ignite political and security instability
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The second edition of Nawafiz festival will take place at the TivoliVredenburg venue in the Dutch city of Utrecht, with a lineup of some of the best artists
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For the final episode of Sanaa's Odyssey, we travelled to Cairo, to meet with Sanaa in person. When we spoke, a ceasefire had been agreed between Israel and Hamas, although, there was little hope that it would hold. In her Cairo apartment, we spoke...

By April 2024, Sanaa and her family decided that it was time to get out of Gaza. They had experienced seven months of the brutal conflict, been forced from their homes, and lost countless friends and family members. At the time, the only way out of...

As the war in Gaza continues to rage, Sanaa has to continue working as a journalist. Sanaa has been working as a journalist for 19 years, and while she has witnessed many wars in Gaza, the current conflict has been the most difficult to report on...

This is episode 2 of Sanaa's Odyssey, a brand new series from The New Arab. You can subscribe to Sanaa's Odyssey on all podcast platforms. On episode two of Sanaa's Odyssey, we follow Palestinian freelance journalist Sanaa Kamal as her and her family...

The war in Gaza began on October 7th 2023. Sanaa Kamal watched it happen from her balcony as she drank her morning coffee. That day would be the start of a nightmare for her and her family. On this episode of Sanaa's Odyssey, Palestinian freelance...

Sanaa Kamal is a freelance journalist, who was born and raised in Gaza. She has lived through a series of wars in Gaza, but nothing like the war that followed the Hamas-led attacks of October 7th. In this five-part podcast from The New Arab in London...

With the return of President Donald Trump, we also saw the return of the 'maximum pressure' campaign. The maximum pressure campaign was the hallmark of Trump's Iran foreign policy during his first term, and took the form of a raft of sanctions, which...

The Assad regime has gone. After 14 years of war, and 54 years of one family's rule, Syria is now stepping into a new period of its history. Led by the transitional government of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, Syria will now have to build a new state and...

Lebanon finally has a new president. After an over two year wait, Joseph Aoun was chosen to be the new President of Lebanon, with a healthy majority of the votes in parliament . Aoun, who is also the commander-in-chief of the Lebanese Armed Forces...

A ceasefire has finally been agreed between Israel and Hamas. The news came as a great relief to the people of Gaza, but many questions regarding the deal still remain. This week on The New Arab Voice podcast we look at the details of the ceasefire...
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