Arab media

Arab media reactions to flydubai hijacking attempt mixed between cautious, sensational

In the first hours of Arab media coverage, a clear divide emerged. As reports spread beyond Dubai, additional and increasingly serious claims emerged.

Passengers queue at the flydubai counters in Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on September 30, 2026.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (L) welcomes Lebanese President Aoun at the presidential palace in Ankara, July 30.

Voices from the Arab press: A new pathway for Lebanon

SATELLITE VIEW shows vehicles at an entrance to Pickaxe Mountain tunnels, near Natanz nuclear facility, in Iran, June 21.

Voices from the Arab press: The Red Sea, redrawing the war map

Military equipment targeted at an unknown location, during what US CENTCOM says are strikes on Iran, in this video screengrab released July 20.

Voices from the Arab press: Iranian calamities, Netanyahu's rule, and state legitimacy


Arab press laments Israeli superiority in education, innovation, justice

The articles cited Israel's education, innovation, democratic values, the country's ability to prosecute corrupt officials and its political stability as the source of its success.

Media screens from Israeli media show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Voices from the Arab press: A strike on Syria reveals West's true intentions

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SUPPORTERS OF Eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar take part in a rally in Benghazi, Libya, calling for Haftar to take over after a UN deal for a political solution missed what they said was a self-imposed deadline in December 2017

Political adviser to Syria’s Assad: Major victory over western missiles

“There are two things that the West and the Zionists want. One is that there be no unity in the [Arab] nation. The other is that [the Arab nation] not arm itself with science and knowledge."

Bouthaina Shaaban, envoy of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, speaks during an interview in Beijing August 15, 2012

Voices from the Arab press: corruption is our real threat

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

UNITED NATIONS Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeepers watch as Israeli workers build a wall near the border with Israel, near the village of Naqoura, Lebanon, early March 2018

Congressmen ask Justice Dep't to weigh Al Jazeera as foreign agent

“Al Jazeera’s record of radical anti-American, antisemitic, and anti-Israel broadcasts warrant scrutiny.”

Palestinian journalists are seen through a glass window at the offices of the Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera in the West Bank city of Ramallah July 15, 2009.

Voices from the Arab press: A shameful Egyptian deal

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

ANTI-GOVERNMENT protesters perform the Friday weekly prayers during a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen’s president Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz in 2011

Voices from the Arab press: Qatar's hypocrisy exposed yet again

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

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up part of Iranian drone that landed in Israel in February 2018 at the Munich Security Conference, February 18, 2018

Voices from the Arab Press: A war with no instigators

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

SECURITY PERSONNEL examine the remains of an Israel Air Force F-16 fighter plane near Kibbutz Harduf on February 10, 2018. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)

Reporting from Afrin amid the Turkish offensive

“In the Arab world and Turkey, covering any part of the region, you have the challenge of regimes and governments that don’t like what you say.”

Alberto Fernandez, president of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. (Wikimedia Commons)

Time to include Arabs among the decision-makers

Recent workers' rights ad campaign demands closer scrutiny.

Muslim students are shown in this illustrative photo wearing hijabs at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.