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Israel's disparate coalition partners agreed a new state budget [Getty]
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Inside Israel’s controversial new media overhaul law

The Israeli Knesset has approved a controversial broadcasting overhaul despite criticism. The New Arab looks at what the new law means and what's changing.

Assiah Hamed
19 July, 2026
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) listens to a speech by his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in Jerusalem on February 25, 2026.
Israel
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Netanyahu coalition challenge to Supreme Court reignites dispute

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 July, 2026
A car drives into the Palestinian side of the King Hussein (Allenby) bridge, the main border crossing between the Israel-occupied West Bank and Jordan
Israel
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Israel denies entry to Italian journalist over critical coverage

The New Arab Staff
12 February, 2026
Sign reading Press journalists murdered in front of a target carried by the spokesperson for Attac during a rally prior to the Stop the Genocide in Gaza demonstration on Place de la Comedie in Montpellier in Herault in France on September 27, 2025.
Gaza War
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French journalists file legal complaint against Israel over Gaza

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 December, 2025
Leader of Turkey's main opposition party, CHP, Ozgur Ozel, addresses the media at the party headquarters after a hearing on corruption charges against the party, in Ankara on October 24, 2025. (Photo by ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Turkey
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Turkey trustee curbs content on pro-opposition TV channel

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
25 October, 2025
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Turkey
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Turkey prosecutors seize 3 TV stations as part of fraud probe

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
11 September, 2025
Relatives of the killed journalists cry as the dead bodies are brought to Beirut, Lebanon on November 21, 2023. (Photo by Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Occupied West Bank
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Israel arrests Al Mayadeen's Palestine bureau chief in West Bank

The New Arab Staff
07 July, 2025
US agency for global media [Getty]
US media
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US-based Al-Hurra channel goes off air amid Trump funding cuts

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
13 April, 2025
The SDF are due to evacuate Sheikh Maqsoud soon [Paul McLoughlin / The New Arab]
Post-Assad Syria
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Kurdish-led SDF impose media blackout on Aleppo neighbourhoods

Paul McLoughlin
12 April, 2025
Illustration - In-depth - Gaza/media
Gaza War
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Israel's growing media censorship of the Gaza war

Alessandra Bajec
29 May, 2024
Turkey
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Turkey arrests pro-Kurdish reporters in 'terrorism' probe

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
23 April, 2024
Egypt
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Egypt detains Mada Masr reporter on Ras al-Hekma reporting

Thaer Mansour
11 March, 2024
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Egypt releases three female journalists detained since 2022

Thaer Mansour
08 February, 2024
A screenshot of the front page of the Iranian newspaper, Hamshahri.
Mahsa Amini
MENA
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Iran's police chief prosecutes media on hijab enforcement

A correspondent in Iran
10 May, 2023
Analysis- Algeria Ihsane El Kadi
Algeria
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The arrest of Ihsane El Kadi & Algeria's authoritarian turn

Nadine Talaat
14 March, 2023
Turkey-Syria earthquake
MENA
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Turkey watchdog fines three outlets for quake coverage

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
23 February, 2023
Turkey LGBT
Turkey
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Turkey’s LGBT crackdown is about silencing all opposition

Yasemin Smallens

Yasemin Smallens

02 August, 2022
Analysis - Media repression Egypt
Egypt
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After the coup: Egypt's media landscape in crisis

Thaer Mansour
30 June, 2022
Egyptian photojournalists -- AFP
Reporters Without Borders
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Egypt blocks website of media watchdog Reporters Without Borders

The New Arab
19 August, 2017
Sozcu newspaper Turkey
Turkey
MENA
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Opposition media crackdown widens as Turkey seeks Sozcu arrests

The New Arab & agencies
19 May, 2017
Zaman newspaper Istanbul
Turkey
MENA
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Turkey police raid HQ of major opposition paper

The New Arab & agencies
12 November, 2015