Voices from the Arab press

Voices from the Arab press: Victory from which there is no escape

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

Split screen of two videos of blasts, one shot in thermal imaging, that show the IDF destroying underground infrastructure used by Hezbollah, in Majdal Zoun, southern Lebanon. Videos released June 28.
 Strait pf Hormuz: Iranian policeman?

Voices from the Arab press: Handing the Strait of Hormuz to Iran and the Gulf

CCTV footage shows carnage following a strike on Kuwait International Airport, June 3.

Voices from the Arab press: Attacking civilians is never justified

LEBANESE CHILDREN play with toy soldiers in the southern city of Bint Jbail.

Voices from the Arab press: Bint Jbail, Trump's options, and Lebanon's courage


Voices from the Arab Press: Tony Blair and Gaza’s ‘day-after’

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world

TONY BLAIR, then-Quartet representative to the Middle East, visits a UN-run school for Palestinians, 2015.

Voices from the Arab Press: The world's message to Netanyahu

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference in the State Dining Room at the White House, in Washington, DC, US, September 29, 2025

Voices from the Arab press: Trump, Israel, and Gaza

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

US President Donald Trump speaks with the media on the day of the signing of an executive order to rename the Department of Defense the "Department of War", in the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, DC, US, September 5, 2025.

Voices from the Arab press: Between the Yalta and Alaska summits

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH of three world leaders attending the Yalta Conference in February 1945, in Crimea: (front row, L-R) British prime minister Winston Churchill, US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

Voices from the Arab press: The new elite in Egypt

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

Cairo, Egypt.

Voices from the Arab press: Macron’s promise and Great Britain’s historical burden

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

FRENCH PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron (C), and Hani al-Hayek, Palestinian Authority minister for heritage and tourism, visit the exhibition ‘Treasures Rescued from Gaza’ at the Arab World Institute in Paris, April 14, 2025.

Voices from the Arab press: Withdrawal of US forces from the region is off the table

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

RECRUITING POSTER for US armed forces, 1917.

Voices from the Arab press: Damascus between the Druze, Alawites, and Kurds

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

WORKERS MAINTAIN power generation transformers in the Al-Kiswah area of the Damascus countryside, in Syria, May 26.

Voices from the Arab press: The need to reform the UN

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

 UNITED NATIONS headquarters in New York City.

Voices from the Arab press: New York and Mamdani: Stranger than fiction

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

 NEW YORK CITY mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani waves at the crowd during the 2025 Pride March, June 29, 2025.