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When The Haboob Sings
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When the Haboob Sings: A novel about censorship and freedom

Book Club: Nejoud Al-Yagout's 'When the Haboob Sings' explores censorship, apostasy and freedom through a writer imprisoned for speaking her truth

Joyce Bou Charaa
19 August, 2026
A picture taken on September 2, 2014 in the Iranian capital Tehran shows the doors of cells in a corridor of the "Qasr prison", a former prison hosting political prisoners that was turned into a museum in 2012.
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Iran prisoners stage protest, hunger strike against executions

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
15 October, 2025
An Iranian flag waves on top of a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a war exhibition commemorating the 45th anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war
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Iran hands two French nationals prison sentences for spying

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
15 October, 2025
Yarahi was flogged at a security facility in Tehran
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Protests force prison transfer of UK woman held in Iran

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
14 October, 2025
A vehicle destroyed in Israeli strikes is pictured at Evin prison in northern Tehran, Iran, on July 1, 2025
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British couple held in Iran to get verdict within days

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 October, 2025
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Rights group urges Saudi Arabia frees preacher Salman al-Awda

The New Arab Staff
21 May, 2025
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Bassam Mortada on family, politics, and healing in Abo Zaabal 89

Mariana Hristova

Mariana Hristova

24 April, 2025
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Many families in Gaza are asking about those Israel disappeared

Sally Ibrahim
15 January, 2025
Israeli forces beat a 66-year-old prominent Palestinian to death [Screengrab/X]
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Israeli forces kill elderly Palestinian activist in brutal raid

The New Arab Staff
07 October, 2024
Alaa Abdel Fattah
Alaa Abdel Fattah
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Egypt: Alaa Abdel Fattah’s family anxious as release date nears

The New Arab Staff
20 September, 2024
Israel returns bodies of two Jordanians who crossed border, attacked Israeli soldiers
Jordan
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Health of jailed Jordan journalist Hassan Al-Zoubi deteriorates

The New Arab Staff
09 September, 2024
Gaza
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Jailed Palestinian author wins prestigious fiction award

The New Arab Staff
29 April, 2024
Egypt
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Egyptian court sentences Ahmed Tantawi to a year in prison

Thaer Mansour
07 February, 2024
Rached Ghannouchi
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Tunisia: Ennahda leader Ghannouchi handed new jail term

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 February, 2024
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Spanish woman freed from Iran jail after four months

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 March, 2023
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Iran sentences Austrian to 7.5 years in jail for 'spying'

The New Arab Staff
22 February, 2023
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Frenchman held in Iran starts new hunger strike: sister

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 February, 2023
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14 NGOs call for immediate release of Mohammed al-Qahtani

The New Arab Staff
24 November, 2022
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Iran 'weaponises sexual violence against detainees': report

The New Arab Staff
22 November, 2022
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Alaa Abdel-Fattah
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Alaa Abdel-Fattah: Thousands sign petition for release

The New Arab Staff
27 August, 2022
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Saudi activists call for release of jailed cleric and sons

The New Arab Staff
24 August, 2022