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Top Stories

Zbidi pledges to get to bottom of ‘secret apparatus’ and political assasinations

Lebanese mostly unmoved by brief border confrontation with Israel

Netanyahu panders to the right, attacks media in final stretch of campaign

Manuel Langendorf

New internet regulations in Turkey stoke censorship fears

Yemen’s Brotherhood affiliate builds new alliances to foment unrest

Interview

Tunisian presidential candidate Abdelkrim Zbidi speaks during an interview at his office in Tunis. (AFP)

Zbidi pledges to get to bottom of ‘secret apparatus’ and political assasinations

Hopes and fears. Libyan activist Amal Obeidi. (Al Arab)

Is there still a place for national reconciliation in Libya?

Khulud al-Fallah

Economy

Oil policy as top priority. Saudi Oil Minister Khalid al-Falih at a news conference in Vienna, Austria. (AP)

Saudi Arabia undertakes major restructuring at Energy Ministry

Fragile stabilisation. A view of containers at a loading terminal in the port of Rades in Tunis.(Reuters)

Tackling stubborn economic crisis a priority for Tunisia after election

Struggling sector. An employee works on a production line in Oued Tlelat in the south of the Algerian city of Oran. (AFP)

Automobile industry crisis prompts Algeria to import used vehicles

Tough times. Egyptians shop at a vegetable market in Cairo.(Reuters)

Despite rosy economic data, Egyptians complain of harder living

Culture

Peaceful atmosphere. Children welcome visitors at Al-Souda Season Festival.(Al Arab)

Saudi summer festival attracts domestic and foreign tourists

Emotionally powerful. A scene from “Erased — Ascent of the Invisible” by film-maker and animator Ghassan Halwani. (Courtesy of Toronto International Film Festival)

Lebanese film revives lost memory of the missing of war

A message of life. A visitor looks at paintings on display at the “Yemeni Art Caravan” exhibition in Giza, Egypt.(Al Arab)

Artists paint the many faces of Yemen

Mohamed Abdelhadi

Travel

Tourists take photos with camels on the beach at Jumeirah Beach Residence in Dubai.(Reuters)

Dubai strengthens position as the ‘cruise hub of the region’

N.P. Krishna Kumar-49801

Society

A man with a mission. Veteran media executive and debutant memoirist Mohammad Sarafraz.(Courtesy of Mohammad Sarafraz)

Blame Khamenei: Memoirs of a media executive

News & Analysis

LGBT rights return as thorny subject for Tunisian election candidates

Dozens of EU observers to monitor Tunisian elections

Stephen Quillen

Tunisia's presidential candidates on the offensive ahead of vote

Muscat engages in a conflict by proxy in Yemen’s Mahrah province

Al-Islah’s bid to dismantle Sa’dah fronts poses threat to Saudi Arabia

Tehran raises stakes in nuclear row by escalating threats, making offers for talks

UN hits dead end on attempts to create political dialogue

The hurdles to educational reform in Saudi Arabia

Zaki al-Soudeir

Moroccan school year begins with dire lack of resources

Netanyahu panders to the right, attacks media in final stretch of campaign

Manuel Langendorf

Cairo initiative fails to make inroads into Libya crisis

Russia and Iran tussle for Syria’s war spoils

Simon Speakman Cordall

As refugee numbers rise, Greece and Turkey face new border challenges

Automobile industry crisis prompts Algeria to import used vehicles

Was suspension of Alhurra Iraq TV connected to US-Iran tensions?

Mamoon Alabbasi

In divided Iraq, ‘electronic armies’ threaten activists, media

Egypt’s newspapers to shift from print to online

Special Focus

Easily offended. Members of Iran-backed Shia Popular Mobilisation Forces at a training centre in Karbala carry a placard with an image of Iraqi Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, August 30. (AFP)

Was suspension of Alhurra Iraq TV connected to US-Iran tensions?

Raucous messages. An Iraqi man looks at his computer in a garden on the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.(AFP)

In divided Iraq, ‘electronic armies’ threaten activists, media

A fading style of journalism. Old newspapers on display at al-Azbakeya book market in Cairo. (AFP)

Egypt’s newspapers to shift from print to online

Thoughts

Can old foes help Erdogan counter new rivals?

Stuck in Syria, Turkey’s Erdogan makes but new threats

Books

A man with a mission. Veteran media executive and debutant memoirist Mohammad Sarafraz.(Courtesy of Mohammad Sarafraz)

Blame Khamenei: Memoirs of a media executive