News & Analysis

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
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
A win for Damascus? Syria’s President Bashar Assad (L) chairs the central committee of the ruling Baath party in Damascus, last October 7. (AFP)
US still absent as Syrian Constitutional Committee sees light
Sami Moubayed
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
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
AW staff
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
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
AW staff
Amin Nasser, president and CEO of Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Saudi Aramco, speaks during a news conference in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, September 17. (Reuters)
Saudi Aramco says emerged from attacks ‘stronger than ever’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), President Reuven Rivlin (C) and Benny Gantz, leader of Blue and White party, attend a memorial ceremony for late Israeli president Shimon Peres, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (AFP)
Netanyahu asks rival Benny Gantz to join forces, form unity government