Al-Araby

Iraqis have reacted online and on the streets with sympathy and support to the protests in neighbouring Iran following the death of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a Kurdish woman, who died after she was allegedly beaten by the Iranian morality police for not wea…

Iran’s hard-line president struck a defiant tone on Wednesday by demanding guarantees the United States not abandon any revived nuclear deal and by decrying “double standards” on human rights after the death of an Iranian woman in police custody. Irani…

A self-proclaimed government operating in opposition-held areas of Syria has issued guidelines to the public on combatting cholera, amid a worrying increase in cases of the disease in the war-torn country. The Syrian “National Salvation Government” (NS…

Queen Elizabeth II, who reigned over the United Kingdom and fourteen other commonwealth realms for 70 years, was buried following a state funeral on 19 September 2022. The monarchy in Britain and other commonwealth countries is difficult to define and …

An explosion in Afghanistan’s capital has killed at least three people and wounded 13 others, a Taliban official said on Wednesday. According to Khalid Zadran, the Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief, the blast occurred in a restaura…

The president of Chile on Tuesday condemned the death of Mahsa Amini in Iranian morality police detention and called for an end to violence against women across the world. He was speaking at the UN’s General Assembly, where world leaders have gathered …

A delegation of Pakistanis, including a former government minister, met Israeli Foreign Ministry officials in Jerusalem on Wednesday, the leader of the group and trip organisers said. Pakistan is among the countries that has no diplomatic relations wit…

On Saturday 18 September, large groups of men marched in Leicester, chanting Hindutva slogans, approaching a mosque and intimidating the local population. These marchers were not peaceful, and eventually there was retaliation from a section of the Musl…

It’s pretty rare to come across a book where the majority of the words have you vigorously nodding along in your local coffee shop, seeing your childhood self reflected on the page, but this book will do just that. Hanna Flint’s debut book, Strong Fema…

The ways in which we communicate – and miscommunicate – as Arab families is the crux of Egyptian Australian writer Sara El Sayed’s memoir Muddy People: A Muslim Coming of Age, which was published in Australia last year, and was recently released in the…