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Book Club
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Ghada Karmi's Murjana: Forbidden love in medieval Baghdad

Book Club: We speak to Ghada Karmi about her latest book 'Murjana', the story of a Sunni Caliph, a Shia woman, and the sectarian fury that shadows their love

Zainab Mehdi
26 November, 2025
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Book Club
Book Club
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When desire breaks all the rules in A Calamity of Noble Houses

Ilham Essalih

Ilham Essalih

19 November, 2025
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Muslim dating
Film, TV & Music
Culture
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Can you find halal love? Hulu’s Muslim Matchmaker thinks so

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Adama Munu

01 May, 2025
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dating
Film, TV & Music
Culture
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From coffee dates to I do: The lessons of Love is Blind: Habibi

Zainab Mehdi

Zainab Mehdi

24 October, 2024
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The New Arab
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Navigating Omani life through love and loss in Silken Gazelles

Saliha Haddad

Saliha Haddad

09 October, 2024
Riham Isaac's Another Lover's Discourse
Palestinian culture
Culture
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Riham Isaac seduces the stage with Another Lover's Discourse

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Sami Rahman

27 October, 2022
Palestine
MENA
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Israel forces West Bank visitors to declare love interests

The New Arab Staff
04 September, 2022
The Newlyweds: Love in modern India
The New Arab Book Club
Book Club
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The Newlyweds: A rare insight into modern love in India

Dhruti Shah

Dhruti Shah

03 August, 2022
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The New Arab Voice Podcast
In-depth
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The Second Battle: Securing justice after conflict

Hugo Goodridge
Rosie McCabe
11 February, 2022
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Offbeat
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Moroccan-American TV host Tarek El Moussa weds fiance

The New Arab Staff
25 October, 2021
Voices of the lost
love
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Hoda Barakat's Voices of The Lost

The New Arab Staff

Tahmina Begum

19 February, 2021
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wedding
MENA
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Small is beautiful: Gaza's toned-down Covid-era weddings

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
27 November, 2020
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MENA
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In Iraq's Kurdish capital, all's fair in love, walls

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
26 July, 2020
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MENA
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Saudi cleric ridiculed after tweeting 'erotic' poem after prayers

The New Arab Staff
20 July, 2020
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Valentine's Day
MENA
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Valentine's Day brings love and worry in Iraq's Najaf

The New Arab & agencies
14 February, 2020
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Valentine's Day
MENA
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Egypt religious authorities rule Valentine's Day is 'halal'

The New Arab
14 February, 2020
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Waad al-Kateab
Society
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For Sama: An astonishing tale of love and horror

Amr Salahi

Amr Salahi

12 September, 2019
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Yemen
Society
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War, famine and fear: Yemeni cinema fights back

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab & agencies

16 September, 2018
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Twitter reacts
Narrated

Egyptians discuss divorce in 'controversial' hashtag

Diana Alghoul

Diana Alghoul

07 November, 2017
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Analysis
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For the love of Palestine: on Ghassan Kanafani's resistance

Diana Alghoul
08 July, 2017
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Turkey
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Lovesick men in Turkish village protest against marriage rejections

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab

08 April, 2016