The New Arab Voice is back! For our fifth season, we’re starting with a look at the recent upheaval witnessed in US-Saudi relations. Saudi Arabia sparked the ire of the US earlier in October, when it was announced that OPEC+ would be cutting oil produc…
Israel brutally arrests 16-year-old Palestinian in home raid
International clamour is growing over Israel’s arrest of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy at his home in occupied East Jerusalem earlier this month. In the early hours of 18 October, a dozen Israeli soldiers and secret service agents stormed the family ho…
US commits another $30 mln for Pakistan flood relief
The United States said Thursday it would provide another $30 million in flood aid to Pakistan, hoping to reach nearly two million additional people after the historic disaster. The US Agency for International Development said the new aid would include …
US sanctions Iran-based foundation over Rushdie bounty
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on the Iran-based foundation that issued a multi-million-dollar bounty on the life of “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, who was physically attacked in August. The sanctions are aimed at the “15 Khorda…
Qatar ‘committed to improvements’ after Socceroos criticism
The organizers of the Qatar 2022 World Cup have said the global tournament has delivered a “transformative impact” in host country Qatar with new laws passed and reforms implemented in areas like worker rights, in response to criticisms raised in a vid…
Iran Revolutionary Guards say bomb attack foiled in Shiraz
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Friday that its intelligence unit had foiled a bomb attack in the southern city of Shiraz, two days after a deadly shooting at a shrine there, the guards’ news agency Sepah News said. “A bombing in Mo’ali Abad Street…
Pakistan’s ex-premier Imran Khan set to march on Islamabad
Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan gathered hundreds of supporters in the eastern city of Lahore on Friday to join a caravan of cars and trucks heading for the capital Islamabad to pressure the government into calling snap polls. Since being o…
Palestinians decry collective punishment over Nablus siege
With customers unable to reach his shop for the past two weeks because of an Israeli-enforced siege, Abdelaziz al-Qadi’s small convenience store in theWest Bank city of Nablus has been left dark. Wasting money on electricity is pointless, he explained,…
Moroccans frustrated over France ‘revenge visa’ in Morocco
“It is dehumanising, humiliating, and racist,” said Samia, a 47-year-old Moroccan as she spoke to The New Arab on the process of getting a student visa to France for her 18-year-old daughter. On an early Wednesday morning, dozens of parents and student…
Riham Isaac seduces the stage with Another Lover’s Discourse
This autumn Riham Isaac brings her first solo theatre show, created and performed solely by her, to the Belfast International Arts Festival. The multimedia performance, titledAnother Lover’s Discourse, explores the complexity of love and relationships….