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World
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Exclusive: UK parliament refuses to release Arab Spring report

The UK parliament has refused to release a sensitive report on Britain's response to the Arab Spring uprisings, keeping it secret until 2046

Amer Sultan
12 October, 2026
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Qatar
MENA
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Hamad Bin Khalifa: Making Qatar a major international player

The New Arab Staff
12 July, 2026
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Syria
MENA
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Ex-Syrian colonel in UK court for crimes against humanity

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 March, 2026
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Driven to Their Knees: How humiliation shapes modern power

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Usman Butt

10 December, 2025
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Syria
MENA
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HRW: UAE dissident held in Syria risks torture if extradited

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 December, 2025
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Book Club
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Making Aid Work: Why Western assistance failed in MENA region

Hossam el-Hamalawy

Hossam el-Hamalawy

03 December, 2025
A Bahraini girl holds up a placard bearing a portrait of jailed human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and reading in Arabic "Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, will and determination, hunger strike" during an anti-government protest in the village of Jannusan, west of the capital Manama, on September 5, 2014.
Bahrain
MENA
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Bahrain activist launches hunger strike in prison over detention

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 October, 2025
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In-depth
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How Arab states are seeking to curb Gen Z's digital mobilisation

Mohammad Ersan
16 October, 2025
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Book Club
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Lebanon is Burning: Yazan al-Saadi's defiant graphic dispatches

The New Arab Staff

Sarah Khalil

10 September, 2025
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Tunisia
Society
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The story of Tunisia’s skatepark built from an abandoned mansion

The New Arab Staff

Amelia Dhuga

29 May, 2025
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Interviews
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Emel Mathlouthi on pushing feminism to the forefront of music

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Yousra Samir Imran

02 May, 2025
To understand al-Sharaa's Syria, listen to echoes of Arab Spring
Arab Spring
Voices

To understand al-Sharaa's Syria, listen to echoes of Arab Spring

Amr Salahi

Amr Salahi

11 April, 2025
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Egypt
In-depth
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Erasing the revolutionary identity of Egypt's Tahrir Square

Shaimaa Elhadidy
23 January, 2025
After Qaradawi case, no Arab league state is safe for dissidents
Abdul Rahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Perspectives

After Qaradawi case, no Arab League state is safe for dissidents

Inès Osman

Inès Osman

21 January, 2025
The Assad dynasty has failed the Palestinian struggle for liberation. Their fall is an opportunity to rebuild commitment to the cause
Post-Assad Syria
Perspectives

How the 1973 war with Israel began the Assads' war on Syrians

Jad Baghdadi

Jad Baghdadi

30 December, 2024
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Alaa Abdel Fattah
MENA
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Alaa Abdel Fattah's mother passes 80 days of hunger strike in UK

Rabeea Eid
19 December, 2024
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Book Club
Book Club
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Salt Journals: Tunisia’s political imprisonment, told by women

Saliha Haddad

Saliha Haddad

18 December, 2024
Syria wakes up from its Assadist nightmare. But what comes next?
Post-Assad Syria
Perspectives

Why do some Leftists support the brutality of the Syrian regime?

Sari-Hanafi

Sari Hanafi

17 December, 2024
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Libya
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Activist Ayat Mneina on the past, present and future of Libya

Anam Alam

Anam Alam

11 December, 2024
Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime was a psychopathic terror state
Post-Assad Syria
Perspectives

Bashar al-Assad's terror state is gone: Syria can breathe again

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Karim Safieddine

10 December, 2024
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Film, TV & Music
Culture
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Road trips, secrets, and unity in Women Who Blow on Knots play

The New Arab Staff

Lydia Doye

21 November, 2024