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US-based Al-Hurra channel goes off air amid Trump funding cuts

The head of Al-Hurra accused the appointee of the agency overseeing the channel of dodging his efforts to speak with her about the funding cutoff.

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
MENA
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Kurdish-led SDF impose media blackout on Aleppo neighbourhoods

Paul McLoughlin
12 April, 2025
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Gaza War
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Israel's growing media censorship of the Gaza war

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

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

Thaer Mansour
11 March, 2024
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MENA
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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
MENA
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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