Voices from the Arab press

Voices from the Arab press: Between the Yalta and Alaska summits

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

ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH of three world leaders attending the Yalta Conference in February 1945, in Crimea: (front row, L-R) British prime minister Winston Churchill, US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Cairo, Egypt.

Voices from the Arab press: The new elite in Egypt

FRENCH PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron (C), and Hani al-Hayek, Palestinian Authority minister for heritage and tourism, visit the exhibition ‘Treasures Rescued from Gaza’ at the Arab World Institute in Paris, April 14, 2025.

Voices from the Arab press: Macron’s promise and Great Britain’s historical burden

RECRUITING POSTER for US armed forces, 1917.

Voices from the Arab press: Withdrawal of US forces from the region is off the table


Voices from the Arab press: Damascus between the Druze, Alawites, and Kurds

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

WORKERS MAINTAIN power generation transformers in the Al-Kiswah area of the Damascus countryside, in Syria, May 26.

Voices from the Arab press: The need to reform the UN

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

 UNITED NATIONS headquarters in New York City.

Voices from the Arab press: New York and Mamdani: Stranger than fiction

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

 NEW YORK CITY mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani waves at the crowd during the 2025 Pride March, June 29, 2025.

Voices from the Arab press: When the ceasefire prolongs the war

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

 IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Abbas Araqchi attends the funeral procession of military commanders, nuclear scientists, and others killed in Israeli strikes, in Tehran, June 28, 2025.

Voices from the Arab press: Khamenei’s message from hiding

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

 PEOPLE WALK next to a mural with a picture of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on a street, early hours of ceasefire, in Tehran, Iran, on June 24, 2025

Voices from the Arab press: Iran is shaking – but what’s next?

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

 SMOKE RISES in the direction of Khojir complex in Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.

Voices from the Arab press: Trump and Musk’s ugly breakup

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

 Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump stand before the White House covered in cracks in an illustrative picture.

Voices from the Arab press: Trump’s first 100 days in office

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

 US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (front), Panama Canal Authority Administrator Ricaurte Vasquez (middle), and US Southern Command head Adm. Alvin Holsey tour the Miraflores locks, in Panama City, April 8, 2025.

Voices from the Arab press: Israel’s strategy for managing US tensions

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

 US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a ‘coffee ceremony’ at the Saudi Royal Court in Riyadh, May 13

Voices from the Arab press: Historic election opens new page in the Vatican

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

 Cardinals attend the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square, April 26.

Voices from the Arab press: Pope Francis and peace with Islam

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

 BILLBOARD BEARS portraits of Pope Francis and Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, in Baghdad, March 2021 – ahead of the first-ever papal visit to Iraq.