Disability in MENA

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Interviews
Live Story

How Fatma Mahrous became Egypt’s Paralympic weightlifting star

The New Arab Meets: Fatma Mahrous, who overcame a challenging start in life to become a Paralympic weightlifting champion, inspiring others with her resilience

Fatma Elzahraa Badwy
01 January, 2025
Palestinian_disabilities
Society
Live Story

Smile of Hope: The new camp giving urgent aid to disabled Gazans

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Alessandra Bajec

16 September, 2024
Gaza Sunbirds
Society
Live Story

Meet Gaza Sunbirds, Palestine's first ever para-cycling team

The New Arab Staff

Shahla Omar

30 August, 2024
Society
Live Story

Syria's disabilities: Stories of resilience amid hardship

Lauren Crosby Medlicott

Lauren Crosby Medlicott

17 May, 2024
MENA
Live Story

Gaza mourns deaf activist Hashem Ghazal killed by Israel

The New Arab Staff
14 May, 2024
Yitzhak Rabin's doctrine of "break their bones" has become "shoot to maim", writes Burak Elmeli [photo credit: Getty Images]
Perspectives

Rabin's 'break their bones' doctrine haunts Gaza's disabled

Burak Elmali

Burak Elmali

15 April, 2024
Trapped and traumatised, Gaza's disabled face death sentence
Society
Live Story

Trapped and traumatised, Gaza's disabled face death sentence

Rodayna Raydan

Rodayna Raydan

30 November, 2023
Oh, Salaam!: Fighting for love after the Lebanese Civil War
Book Club
Live Story

Oh, Salaam!: Fighting for love after the Lebanese Civil War

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Aisha Yusuff

29 November, 2023
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Society
Live Story

Disabled Gazans paralysed by crippling effects of blockade

Mahmoud Mushtaha

Mahmoud Mushtaha

05 September, 2023
Qatar for All
Society
Live Story

Qatar for All: Creating a more accessible, inclusive country

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Sami Rahman

16 February, 2023
MENA
Live Story

New Tunisia electoral law 'excludes disabled people': NGO

The New Arab Staff
30 October, 2022
The ABCD of providing help to disabled Palestinian children
Society
Live Story

The ABCD of providing help to disabled Palestinian children

The New Arab Staff

Shatha Khalil

14 September, 2022
Northern Iraq's rehabilitation centre gives new lease of life to disabled [Alessandra Bajec]
Society
Live Story

Erbil's rehabilitation centre gives hope to Iraq's disabled

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Alessandra Bajec

16 June, 2022
MENA
Live Story

Monitors report violations on disabled voters in Lebanon

William Christou
15 May, 2022
Demonstration [Hussein Beydoun/Al-Araby Al-Jadeed]
Society
Live Story

Lebanon: Disabled citizens demand right to vote with dignity

Rita El Jammal

Rita El Jammal

12 May, 2022
MENA
Live Story

Qatar opens specialised hospital for prosthetics in Gaza

Sally Ibrahim
28 March, 2022
A man helps a disabled tourists to ride an electric cart, during his trip to Jordan's famed ancient city of Petra, some 230km (143 miles) south of the capital Amman, on October 27, 2021.
Society
Live Story

Jordanian initiative helps disabled citizens secure rights

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William Christou

22 February, 2022
Maysoon Zayid
Interviews
Live Story

Maysoon Zayid: Fighting injustice with a smile on her face

Ouissal Harize

Ouissal Harize

11 February, 2022
The Heartbeat of Iran [Ig Publishing]
Book Club
Live Story

The Heartbeat of Iran: Human beings, rather than warheads

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Sahar Esfandiari

09 February, 2022
Disability series blog
Lifestyle
Live Story

Shifting obsolete notions of disability in the Arab world

The New Arab Staff

Raya al-Jadir

20 January, 2022
A whiteboard in Dr Anita Toutikian's art therapy room, the red cranes of Beirut's port seen through the window, where the explosion of August 2020 took place
Society
Live Story

The fragile state of children's mental health in Lebanon

Rosabel Crean

Rosabel Crean

18 January, 2022