MENA region

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Climate Change
Film, TV & Music
Culture
Live Story

Lights, camera, climate: MENA filmmakers tackle a burning region

A new wave of MENA filmmakers is spotlighting the region's climate crisis through powerful, locally rooted documentaries that challenge Western narratives

Sarah Khalil
10 July, 2025
Blaise Metreweli - MI6
United Kingdom
World
Live Story

First woman to lead MI6 is a Middle East expert fluent in Arabic

The New Arab Staff
Rabeea Eid
16 June, 2025
Classic Arabic Music
Valentine's Day
Lifestyle
Live Story

How classic Arabic music is capturing the hearts of MENA's youth

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Tharwa Boulifi

13 February, 2025
illustration-MENA-End-of-year-roundup
MENA region
MENA
Live Story

The key events that shaped the MENA region in 2024

Sarah Khalil
Nadda Osman
26 December, 2024
Lebanon
MENA
Live Story

Is support for Hezbollah growing in Lebanon?

The New Arab Staff
17 July, 2024
Water scarcity and drought impact agriculture in central Iraq
Iraq
Environment and Climate
Live Story

Could hydroponics reshape Iraq's agriculture future?

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab

16 April, 2024
corruption charges
MENA
Live Story

Arab states score low in TI's Corruption Perceptions Index

The New Arab Staff
30 January, 2024
How harvesting air breathes life into MENA's water crisis
water crisis
Environment and Climate
Live Story

Could harvesting air breathe life into MENA's water crisis?

Mohammed El Said

Mohammed El-Said

19 December, 2023
A Syrian man inspects a scorched area in the aftermath of a forest fire which ravaged swathes of land in the countryside of the western city of Tartus
wildfires
Environment and Climate
Live Story

How MENA's economic and climate crises add fuel to wildfires

Mohammed El Said

Mohammed El-Said

05 September, 2023
Analysis - Arab American Census
Arab American Heritage Month
In-depth
Live Story

Counting Arabs: A century of census activism in the US

Matthew Jaber Stiffler
24 April, 2023
uk census afp
MENA region
MENA
Live Story

US takes step toward MENA category in census

Brooke Anderson
28 January, 2023
inflation
MENA
Live Story

Inflation rips through MENA economies in 2022

The New Arab Staff
29 December, 2022
MENA region
World
Live Story

Study confirms lack of MENA representation in US politics

Brooke Anderson
11 November, 2022
How the MENA region can secure a sustainable water supply
water
Environment and Climate
Live Story

How the MENA region can secure a sustainable water supply

Marta Castillo

Marta Castillo

18 October, 2022
Arab nations
MENA region
Perspectives

MENA relations should be a priority for the next UK PM

Charlotte Leslie

Charlotte Leslie

21 July, 2022
Demolition Jerusalem Getty
Palestine
Voices

Palestinians can only depend on themselves

Emad Moussa

Emad Moussa

09 May, 2022
France's influential economist Thomas Piketty, author of the bestseller "Capital in the 21st Century" addresses a keynote speech during a symposium Les Entretiens du Tresor at the Economy Ministry in Paris on January 23, 2015
inequality
MENA
Live Story

MENA most unequal region in the world: Piketty-linked lab

The New Arab
09 December, 2021
Shisha shopping in Iraq [Getty]
economic
MENA
Live Story

Social unrest threatens MENA economic recovery: IMF

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
19 October, 2021
Internet freedoms
censorship
World
Live Story

Internet freedoms 'under attack' in MENA: Freedom House

The New Arab Staff
23 September, 2021
The New Arab at 7: Interactive Timeline
The New Arab
Narrated

The New Arab at 7: Interactive Timeline

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab Staff

02 June, 2021
IMF [GETTY]
vaccination campaign
MENA
Live Story

Mideast 'early inoculators' to recover by 2022: IMF

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
11 April, 2021