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UAE

UAE astronaut Hazza Al Mansoori gestures in a mock-up of a Soyuz space craft at Russian Space Training Centre in Russia, August 30. (AP)

Emirati astronauts prepare for launch to Space Station

Iran

Chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Gen. Hossein Salami speaks in a ceremony displaying pieces of the American drone shot down by the Guard in the Strait of Hormuz in June, in Tehran, Iran, September 21. (AFP)

Iran escalates provocations as US struggles with response

Tunisia

Tunisian presidential candidate Kais Saied. (AFP)

Tunisia faces aftershocks of populists’ triumph in presidential election

Palestine

An Israeli election banner of the Joint List coalition reads in Arabic: "one million Arab votes, our unity is our strength", in Nazareth, September 18. (AFP)

Arab List steals spotlight in deadlocked Israeli vote

Mamoon Alabbasi

Lebanon

Perfect storm. A man uses binoculars to watch over the border with Israel at the “Garden of Iran” Park, which was built by the Iranian government, in the southern Lebanese village of Maroun al-Ras, on September 2. (AFP)

Hezbollah watches as storm clouds gather over the Gulf

Simon Speakman Cordall

Libya

A journalist reports from the front line during clashes between LNA forces and fighters loyal to the Libyan government of Fayez Sarraj, south of Tripoli. (AFP)

Evidence mounts of Turkish involvement in Tripoli fighting

Latest Issue

Issue: 223 | Sat, September 21, 2019

Top Stories

Arab List steals spotlight in deadlocked Israeli vote

Mamoon Alabbasi

Hezbollah watches as storm clouds gather over the Gulf

Simon Speakman Cordall

Evidence mounts of Turkish involvement in Tripoli fighting

Tunisia faces aftershocks of populists’ triumph in presidential election

Iran escalates provocations as US struggles with response

Emirati astronauts prepare for launch to Space Station

Opinion

The many faces of Kais Saied

Rebuilding Syria, one luxury hotel at a time

Rashmee Roshan Lall

Drug trafficking jihad is a plague on Islam

Ibrahim Zobeidi

Gulf nations may opt for an Iran strategy independent from US

Khairallah Khairallah

In terms of the peace narrative, Netanyahu wins even when he loses

Geoffrey Aronson

Algeria’s old guard destroying its future

Lebanese left to cope with own Vichy syndrome

Editorial

Saudi Arabia

A general view of Abadan oil refinery in southwest Iran, is pictured from Iraqi side of Shatt al-Arab in Al-Faw south of Basra, Iraq September 21. (Reuters)

Aramco attacks may be final straw

Women

Iranian women walk in a street in Tehran, August 27. (AFP)

Oppression of women extends into Iran football stadiums

Yemen

A general view of Abadan oil refinery in southwest Iran, is pictured from Iraqi side of Shatt al-Arab in Al-Faw south of Basra, Iraq September 21, 2019. (Reuters)

An attack from Iran would be 'an act of war' - Saudi Arabia

Tunisia

Independent presidential candidate Kais Saied (R), Tunisian jurist and professor of constitutional law, leaves his office, September 17, 2019. (DPA)

Jailed Tunisia candidate "reasonably optimistic" about winning presidency

UAE

Pope Francis (L) waving to Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan as he prepares to board his plane on February 5, 2019. (AFP)

UAE will construct its first synagogue within multi-faith complex in 2022

Egypt

A 2018 file picture shows Egyptian soldiers walking in front of a newly constructed combined-cycle power station on the outskirts of Cairo. (AFP)

Economic empire of Egyptian Army under renewed scrutiny

Special correspondent

East|West

British enough. Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon Layla Moran. (Courtesy of Layla Moran)

Under-researched and largely invisible, British Arabs have great potential

Karen Dabrowska

News & Analysis

Last chapter begins. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (C) looks on after speaking to supporters at his Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 18.(Reuters)

Netanyahu seeks to stay in power despite Likud’s failure to win parliamentary election

Lebanon

End of the journey. A 2008 file picture shows a cameraman filming the anchor of Future TV station at a new studio in Sin al-Fil, east of Beirut.(AFP)

Cash-strapped Future TV suspends operations after 26 years on air

Egypt

A banner picturing Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is seen during the opening ceremony of the new city houses executed near the Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt May 5. (Reuters)

Mounting criticism from exiles sparks calls for pro-Sisi party

Iran

Saudi military spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki displays wreckage of an Iranian cruise missile used in an attack that targeted Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, in Riyadh, September 18. (AP)

US cautious, ambivalent towards Iran’s alleged attacks

Emily Przyborowski

Iraq

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi in Riyadh, April 17. (Saudi Royal Court via Reuters)

Iraq scrambles to distance itself from attack on Saudi oil facilities

Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin arrive for a news conference in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. (AP)

Syria summit demonstrates Turkey’s growing dependence on Russia

Tunisia

A 2007 file picture of former President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. (AP)

Tunisia's former president Ben Ali dies in Saudi exile, leaves mixed legacy

Culture

Intricate designs. Ceramic kitchen utensils on display. (Carthage Days for Ceramic Art)

Berber pottery on display at Tunisia’s first ceramics fest

Travel

An amusement park near Erbil.(Oumayma Omar)

Erbil: Iraqis’ favourite holiday destination

Culture

Excellent potential. Kuwaiti theatre and television director Abdullah al-Aber. (Al Arab)

Kuwaiti playwright sees Gulf theatre needing greater freedom

Mohamad al-Hamamsi

Culture

Thorny issue. A scene from the Egyptian play “Sobibor.” (Ahmed Megahid)

Play about the Holocaust raises questions about changing mindsets in Egypt

Society

A cry for freedom. Saudi human resources professional Mashael al-Jaloud, 33, walks past women wearing niqab at a commercial area in Riyadh.(AFP)

Saudi women scrap traditional abaya in bold bid for more freedom

Turkey

Healing power of remembrance. People hold placards reading “Justice for Hrant. We are all Armenian” in front of the offices of the weekly newspaper Agos in Istanbul, last January.(AFP)

Istanbul memorial site prods Turks deal with painful past

Constanze Letsch