Voices from the Arab press

Voices from the Arab press: Education across the Middle East

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

EGYPTIAN PRIME MINISTER Mostafa Kamal Madbouly speaks to the media during a press conference for the Grand Egyptian Museum opening, in Giza, Nov. 1.
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

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

CENTRAL TO Israel’s push is its effort to influence the rapidly expanding ecosystem of AI-powered chatbots.

Voices from the Arab Press: Israel's AI, Hezbollah ceasefire, Saudi shift


Voices from the Arab press: Historic election opens new page in the Vatican

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

 Cardinals attend the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square, April 26.

Voices from the Arab press: Pope Francis and peace with Islam

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

 BILLBOARD BEARS portraits of Pope Francis and Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, in Baghdad, March 2021 – ahead of the first-ever papal visit to Iraq.

Voices from the Arab press: Integrating Hezbollah into the Lebanese army?

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

 Newly elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun poses at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, on January 9, 2025.

Voices from the Arab press: Is there US-European coordination toward Russia?

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

 RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin reviews a military honor guard with Chinese President Xi Jinping, during a ceremony outside Beijing’s Great Hall of the People.

Voices from the Arab press: Hezbollah’s weapons are just decoration

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

 Balloons dot the Beirut sky over a poster of the deceased Hezbollah chair Hassan Nasrallah.

Voices from the Arab press: Syria and forgotten memory

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

 Shattered portrait of Syrian president Bashar Assad is seen at a regime facility near Homs, in December 2024.

Voices from the Arab press: Will trade wars make America great again?

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

 TESLA SHOWROOM in Lisbon, Portugal.

Voices from the Arab press: The beginning of Israeli concern about Trump

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

 US President Donald Trump and Prime Miniser Benjamin Netanyahu speak at the White House, Washington DC., February 4, 2025

Voices from the Arab press: Most Syrian roads lead to Washington

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

 DESTROYED BUILDINGS line the devastated Hajar Aswad area on the southern outskirts of Damascus, Jan. 1.

Voices from the Arab press: Corruption, corruption, corruption

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

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