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An Egyptian man sells bread outside the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo. AFP
Sisi could test Egyptians’ patience, own popularity with bread price hike
  • News & Analysis
Tunisian President Kais Saied receives Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra, August 1, 2021, in Carthage. (Tunisian Presidency)
Algeria’s stance on developments in Tunisia raises questions
  • Maghreb
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI speaks on the 22nd anniversary of his accession to the throne. (MAP)
Moroccan king reaches out again for reconciliation with Algeria
Mohamed Alaoui
  • News & Analysis
A file picture of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar with LNA soldiers. Facebook
Saif al-Islam’s candidacy could worry Haftar, split LNA ranks
  • News & Analysis
Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (L) and President Michel Aoun (C) meeting Premier-designate Najib Mikati in Beirut on July 26, 2021. (AFP)
Saudi Arabia shows little interest in Lebanon’s political crisis
  • News & Analysis
A view of the closed Jaber/Nassib border post at Jordan’s border with Syria, August 1. (AFP)
Escalation in Daraa raises concerns over wave of refugees to Jordan

Latest Issue

Issue: 254 | Sun, April 26, 2020

Top Stories

Washington green-lights Israeli government’s move to annexation
AW staff
Gulf countries seen as well-positioned to weather storm
Sabahat Khan
For Muslims in Arab world, Ramadan is unlike any before
AW staff
Full Edition

Opinion

365 days after Beirut blast, every day counts
Ralph Tarraf
Were Saied’s moves preemptive?
Habib Lassoued
Kais Saied gives Tunisian democracy a second chance
Francis Ghiles
Tunisia deserves a better future
Khairallah Khairallah
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  • Lebanon
Members of internal security forces pay tribute to the victims of last year’s Beirut port explosion, at Port of Beirut, Lebanon August 4, 2021. REUTERS
One year after Beirut port blast, truth remains elusive
  • News & Analysis
Migrants walk along the hardshoulder of a highway in the eastern Lake Van region of Turkey. AFP
Turkey uses Afghan resettlement as bargaining chip with US
  • News & Analysis
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud speaks during a joint press conference with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at the foreign ministry in Islamabad on July 27, 2021. AFP
Saudi Arabia deplores ‘negative activity’ of Iran in the region
  • Egypt
A file picture shows an Egyptian army armoured personnel carriers (APCs) driving in the Sinai. (AFP)
Egypt experts say extremist attacks in Sinai have limited impact
  • Iran
UN Navy units, guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh, the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Cesar Chavez and the coastal patrol ship USS Whirlwind as they transit the Strait of Hormuz. (AFP)
US vow ‘appropriate response’ to Iran attack on Israeli tanker
  • News & Analysis
A file picture shows Ann Linde, minister of foreign affairs of Sweden (C), meeting then-UN special envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths (L) and then-EU Ambassador to Yemen Hans Grundberg in Amman, February 26, 2020. TWITTER
Swedish diplomat to be named new UN envoy for Yemen
  • News & Analysis
Di Maio meets with Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. Twitter
Italy leads European effort to resolve Libyan differences
  • News & Analysis
Senator Bob Menendez talks with Zalmay Khalilzad (R), special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation at the State Department, after a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, last April. (AFP)
US lawmakers debate repealing Saddam-era war measures
  • Palestine
Gaza City and its Mediterranean Sea coastline. (AFP)
Old Gaza buildings make way for high-rises amid housing crunch
  • Tunisia
A man walks past the headquarters of the General Union of Tunisian Workers in Tunis. (Reuters)
Tunisia’s labour union urges pesident to announce cabinet
  • Saudi Arabia
Saudi staff checking attendants’ mobiles for vaccine certificates or a negative COVID-19 test at the entrance of a theatre in Riyadh, last June. (AFP)
Saudi Arabia reopens to tourists after 17-month closure
  • Iran
An Iranian uses his smartphone to follow the news in Tehran. AFP
Iranian anguish over tough internet restrictions in new bill

Opinion

365 days after Beirut blast, every day counts
Ralph Tarraf
Were Saied’s moves preemptive?
Habib Lassoued
Kais Saied gives Tunisian democracy a second chance
Francis Ghiles
Tunisia deserves a better future
Khairallah Khairallah
© Yasser Ahmed for The Arab Weekly
Cartoon by
  • Culture
A portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh that was looted from Iraq and sold for $1.6 million to Hobby Lobby for display in the Museum of the Bible. AFP
US to return to Iraq thousands of artifacts looted after invasion
  • Sports
Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali wins the men’s 3000m steeplechase final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on August 2, 2021. AFP
Morocco’s Bakkali wins gold in men’s 3,000 metres steeplechase
  • Culture
Lebanese artist Sara Abou Mrad sands a sculpture, made of shattered glass collected in the aftermath of the August 4 explosion at Beirut port, at her studio in the Lebanese capital. AFP
British Museum to restore Lebanese artifacts damaged in blast
  • Culture
Actors perform on stage at the National Theatre in Baghdad. (Reuters)
The curtain rises on first Iraqi theatre festival
  • Culture
A self-portrait by Hala al-Faisal: Painting and music, food to the soul. TAW
‘Stand by Syria’, says multi-talented artist Hala al-Faisal
  • Culture
Joe Machine, The Peace Treaty , 2021, acrylic on canvas. (Courtesy of Masterpiece Fine Art, Dubai Gallery)
Art exhibition pays tribute to Abrahamic history in Dubai’s debut
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