disabilities

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Gaza genocide
Society
Live Story

Disabilities under siege: The Gazans facing a double crisis

As Gaza’s hospitals are destroyed, disabled Palestinians find themselves in a life-or-death struggle, unable to access the care and resources they urgently need

Yanar Alkayat
02 July, 2025
Vibrations_from_Gaza
disabilities
Film, TV & Music
Culture
Live Story

Vibrations from Gaza: The trauma of a genocide on deaf children

The New Arab Staff

Stefano Nanni

20 February, 2025
Amputee
disabilities
MENA
Live Story

Israel's war compounds struggles of Gaza's disabled Palestinians

Sally Ibrahim
15 January, 2025
Gaza's disabled
Gaza
Society
Live Story

Gaza's disabled live in a state of extreme distress amid war

The New Arab Staff

Rasha Jalal

11 December, 2024
More people in Gaza are experiencing hearing loss as a result of Israel's attacks and the spread of disease [Getty]
Gaza War
MENA
Live Story

Bombed into silence: Hearing loss skyrockets in besieged Gaza

Nadda Osman
Sally Ibrahim
26 November, 2024
Leb-Gaza
Lebanon
Narrated

From Gaza to Lebanon, threads of connection remain unbroken

Rawan AlAmeen

Rawan AlAmeen

15 October, 2024
A woman washes clothes in a plastic tub and a girl in a wheelchair watches
Gaza War
Society
Live Story

How Israel's war on Gaza has devastated the disabled community

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab (From the Arabic Edition)

01 October, 2024
Palestinian_disabilities
Gaza War
Society
Live Story

Smile of Hope: The new camp giving urgent aid to disabled Gazans

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Alessandra Bajec

16 September, 2024
Gaza War
World
Live Story

'Shameful' BBC story on Israel's killing of disabled man revised

The New Arab Staff
17 July, 2024
Qatar World Cup
Qatar
Sports
Live Story

Qatar World Cup hosts 'sensory rooms' for fans with autism

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
15 November, 2022
A man helps a disabled tourists to ride an electric cart, during his trip to Jordan's famed ancient city of Petra, some 230km (143 miles) south of the capital Amman, on October 27, 2021.
Jordan
Society
Live Story

Jordanian initiative helps disabled citizens secure rights

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William Christou

22 February, 2022
Disability series blog
Disability in MENA
Lifestyle
Live Story

Shifting obsolete notions of disability in the Arab world

The New Arab Staff

Raya al-Jadir

20 January, 2022
Disability
Lebanon
Society
Live Story

In Lebanon, disabled voters struggle to reach the polls

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William Christou

03 December, 2021
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Sisi
MENA
Live Story

Sisi wants 'respecting others' to be taught in schools

The New Arab
26 December, 2019
egypt twitter
social media.
MENA
Live Story

Vile bullies attack teenager with mental disabilities in Egypt

The New Arab
23 August, 2019
Nawaal Akram
Qatar
Analysis
Live Story

Defying the social stigma of disability in Qatar

Rabi’ah M
19 October, 2018
Kuwait -- AFP
murder
MENA
Live Story

Kuwaiti mother sentenced to death for disabled daughter murder

The New Arab
01 February, 2018
Palestinian child disabled [Getty]
West Bank
Society
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Scores of Palestinian children have more than one disability

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab

16 December, 2016
Facebook logo [Getty]
society
Society
Live Story

Video shows Jordanian teenagers taunting man with Down's Syndrome

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Shams Al-Shakarchi

25 September, 2016
disability AFP
Morocco
Analysis
Live Story

Morocco: Draft law fails to ensure disability rights

The New Arab
02 November, 2015
disability rights
Qatar
Analysis
Live Story

Disability rights in the Arab World: Progress and challenges

Mohammad Ali Musawi & Nada Ramadan
14 June, 2015