MENA region

Lenacapavir bottles in a clinic
HIV
Health
Live Story

New $40 HIV drug could transform prevention across MENA

A twice-yearly HIV prevention injection will cost around $40 in several MENA countries, offering a new option as HIV transmission rises across the region.

Kitty Grant
06 October, 2026
Syria-Latakia-Wildfire-July-6
Environmental crisis
Environment and Climate
Live Story

El Niño 2026-27: How extreme weather could hit the Middle East

Lyse Mauvais

Lyse Mauvais

09 September, 2026
Solar eclipse August 21 Wisconsin
MENA region
MENA
Live Story

Solar eclipse 2026: Where will it be visible in the MENA?

Sarah Khalil
11 August, 2026
A view of the Dome of Rock at Al-Aqsa Compound as Israel will not allow Palestinians to perform Friday prayers during the holy month of Ramadan on March 06, 2026
MENA region
MENA
Live Story

Katz lashes out at Turkey minister's wish to 'govern Jerusalem'

Mohammed Sheikh Youssef
08 June, 2026
Iranian technicians walk outside the building housing the reactor of Bushehr nuclear power plant at the Iranian port town of Bushehr
MENA region
MENA
Live Story

Which Middle East, North Africa countries are 'nuclear capable'?

Oliver Mizzi
02 June, 2026
Female Scientist in Lab
MENA region
MENA
Live Story

Egypt says no Ebola cases recorded as Gulf tighten precautions

Sarah Khalil
20 May, 2026
SAUDI-RELIGION-ISLAM-RAMADAN
Ramadan 2026
MENA
Live Story

Why some Sunni states no longer follow Saudi Arabia on Ramadan?

The New Arab Staff
18 February, 2026
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Unfiltered

Saudi foreign policy makers have read Sun Tzu well. Have Iran's?

TI

Tanya Goudsouzian and Ibrahim al-Marashi

17 February, 2026
TGV train at speed (blurred motion)
Arab Gulf states
MENA
Live Story

Saudi Arabia approves high-speed rail linking Riyadh to Doha

The New Arab Staff
11 February, 2026
Dubai skyline
Arab world
MENA
Live Story

Most Arab countries score poorly in TI's 2025 corruption ranking

The New Arab Staff
11 February, 2026
Homes flooded in Tunisia
MENA region
MENA
Live Story

Storm Harry unleashes deadly floods and sandstorms across MENA

The New Arab Staff
21 January, 2026
Mawadda_app
Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Society
Live Story

Mawadda: The platform empowering Arab women on sexual health

The New Arab Staff

Shefa'a Qudah

07 January, 2026
Arab Opinion Index
MENA region
MENA
Live Story

Israel, US seen as top threats to Arab security, poll shows

The New Arab Staff
06 January, 2026
Blood-Moon-in-Zakho
MENA region
Offbeat
Live Story

How the winter solstice is marked across the MENA region

The New Arab Staff
21 December, 2025
ITALY-VATICAN-DIPLOMACY-TURKEY-POPE
Pope Leo XIV
World
Live Story

Pope Leo XIV in Turkey, Lebanon: What's on the agenda and why

The New Arab Staff
27 November, 2025
The ousted Baath regime left the Kadem Station on the Hejaz Railway
MENA region
MENA
Live Story

Jordan, Syria and Turkey plan to restore historic Hejaz railway

The New Arab Staff
09 November, 2025
Qeysariyeh Bazaar Esfahan
MENA region
MENA
Live Story

Which MENA countries are turning their clocks back this weekend?

The New Arab Staff
25 October, 2025
book-cover-Lebanon_is_burning
Book Club
Book Club
Live Story

Lebanon is Burning: Yazan al-Saadi's defiant graphic dispatches

The New Arab Staff

Sarah Khalil

10 September, 2025
TOPSHOT-IRAQ-CLIMATE-WEATHER-HEATWAVE
MENA region
Environment
Live Story

From Egypt to Kuwait: how a heatwave is scorching the Arab world

The New Arab Staff
12 August, 2025
climate_change_mena and film
Climate Change
Film, TV & Music
Culture
Live Story

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

The New Arab Staff

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