Amr Salahi

Amr Salahi

Amr Salahi

Amr Salahi is a senior journalist and news editor with The New Arab. He has an MSc. in Media, Power, and Public Affairs from Royal Holloway University of London. Amr has many years of experience in media, translation and research, having previously worked with the BBC, ITV News, Al-Hiwar TV, and Iraq Body Count.

 

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Areas of focus: Syrian, Egyptian, and Libyan politics and the modern history of the Middle East.

Syria wakes up from its Assadist nightmare. But what comes next?

Syrians, finally liberated from the shackles of Assad's regime, savour the taste of freedom long denied. Yet the spectre of old foes looms, says Amr Salahi.

16 December, 2024

Will Jill Stein lose Kamala Harris the election in Michigan?

Arab and Muslim voters in Michigan are angry with Kamala Harris, with many backing left-wing candidate Jill Stein instead, and this could cost Harris the state.

05 November, 2024

Israeli soldiers mock Gaza women by dressing in their abayas

An image has emerged of Israeli soldiers dressing up in the abayas of displaced or dead Gazan women as they celebrate a Jewish holiday

30 April, 2024

Gaza: Are Village Leagues planned to replace Hamas rule?

Israel is proposing that 'influential clans' take control of Gaza after the war but it previously tried – and failed – to impose the same thing in the West Bank

06 March, 2024

Syrian refugees and Turkey's xenophobic election campaign

In-depth: Landmark presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey have been marred by a xenophobic discourse against the country's 3.5 million Syrian refugees, with the opposition promising to return them to Syria within two years.

08 May, 2023

Baby born in besieged Syrian refugee camp 'close to death'

Activists in the besieged Rukban refugee camp on the Jordan-Syria border have warned that a baby born with a serious throat defect four weeks ago is in danger of death as the US embassy in Jordan failed to respond to calls to evacuate her.

10 March, 2022

British Arab history: The Moroccan merchants of Manchester

Arabs in the UK series: A look back into British Arab history, we find out more about the Moroccan traders of Manchester who managed to win the respect and appreciation of the wider society in which they lived.

10 December, 2021

The unique tale of Syrian traders in Manchester

Arabs in the UK series: In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Syrian traders created a unique multi-confessional community in Manchester. The New Arab delves deeper into the history of the community to find out more about their story.

10 December, 2021

The Colonel's Stray Dogs: Libya's exiled rebels bark back

Film Review: Libya's revolutions told through familial eyes, the protagonist quickly learns of his exiled father's role as a freedom fighter or 'stray dog' in deposing Gaddafi, and opens up a labyrinth of revolutionary pasts, and futures.

07 July, 2021

Syrian refugee on hunger strike to protest Danish deportation policy

A Syrian refugee in Denmark has entered the eighth day of a hunger strike to protest a new government policy allowing it to place Syrians in prison-like "deportation camps" to pressure them to return to Syria.

25 May, 2021