Voices from the Arab press

Voices from the Arab press: Turkey’s strategic bet on energy

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

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A TURKISH petroleum engineer poses on the helipad of Turkish drilling vessel ‘Yavuz’ in the eastern Mediterranean Sea off Cyprus.
EGYPTIAN PRIME MINISTER Mostafa Kamal Madbouly speaks to the media during a press conference for the Grand Egyptian Museum opening, in Giza, Nov. 1.

Voices from the Arab press: Education across the Middle East

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

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ALI AKBAR VELAYATI (2nd L), top Iranian adviser on international affairs, attends a World Federation of Resistance Scholars conference on ‘resistance to liberate, terrorism to destroy,’ in Beirut, 2016.

Voices from the Arab press: Trump's Muslim Brotherhood designation

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

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince MBS in the White House’s Oval Office, Nov. 18.

Voices from the Arab Press: The Trump-MBS meeting and AI

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

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Voices from the Arab press: Corruption, corruption, corruption

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

MARCH 1, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
NEWLY ELECTED Lebanese President Joseph Aoun reviews an honor guard upon his arrival at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Jan. 9.

Voices from the Arab press: Trump’s Gaza plan remains a fantasy

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

FEBRUARY 21, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
(L-R) US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a backdrop of Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

Voices from the Arab press: Trumpism's Risks and opportunities

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

FEBRUARY 15, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, 2017.

Voices from the Arab press: Is there another way with Israel?

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

FEBRUARY 8, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
IDF troops operate in the West Bank. February 6, 2025.

Voices from the Arab press: Trump’s opportunity to determine the Middle East’s future

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

JANUARY 25, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
TRUMP’S ‘AMERICA First’ agenda could significantly sway global geopolitics.

Voices from the Arab press: Trump and Musk, the arsonists

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

JANUARY 19, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
BILLIONAIRE ELON MUSK joins Donald Trump on stage during a campaign rally at the site of Trump’s first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, Oct. 5, 2024.

Voices from the Arab press: Will Elon Musk mark a victory in politics?

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

JANUARY 11, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
Donald Trump (L) and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket in Brownsville, Texas, November 19, 2024.

Voices from the Arab press: The German attack – despite Saudi Arabia’s warnings

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

JANUARY 6, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff and German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser visit the site where a car drove into a crowd of a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany December 21, 2024.

Voices from the Arab press: Syria after Assad: Four urgent challenges

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

DECEMBER 20, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
A TORN portrait of deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad inside the ransacked Presidential Palace in Damascus, December 10, 2024.

Voices from the Arab press: Trump should pressure Israel, not Hamas

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

DECEMBER 16, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, during his first term as US president, arrive to deliver joint remarks on the ‘Deal of the Century’ proposal, at the White House in 2020.