Al-Araby

Portraying the late King Hussein of Jordan in a fencing match makes for a good novel plot, but it’s also bold. I wonder how many Jordanians would venture to write a fictionalised tale about King Hussein, the founding father of modern Jordan, without th…

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday his bid to buy Twitter won’t proceed unless he gets proof of the number of spam accounts plaguing the platform, adding more uncertainty to his rollercoaster pursuit of the social media giant. This latest twist to h…

A pallbearer at Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral who was brutally attacked by Israeli police while carrying the slain journalist’s coffin has now been arrested. Amr Abu Khudeir, 34, was arrested at his home in Shuufat in occupied East Jerusalem by Israeli a…

The United States will remove a Jewish extremist group linked to late radical rabbi Meir Kahane as well as a Palestinian militant group from a terror blacklist after years of no violence, an official said on Sunday. The State Department designated Kaha…

Tens of thousands of Jewish faithful were expected at Israel’s Mount Meron on Wednesday for an annual pilgrimage, a year after 45 people were crushed to death in a stampede. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said his government made a “considerable invest…

A Palestinian prisoner on his 77th day of a hunger strike is facing a dangerous deterioration the Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC) confirmed on Wednesday. Khalil Awawda, a Palestinian man from Hebron city in the West Bank, announced his hunger strike o…

AnIsraeli extremist group on Wednesday called for the dismantling of the Dome of the Rock in occupied East Jerusalem to build a ‘temple’ in the courtyard of the Muslim holy site. Bentzi Gopstein, head of Lehava, published the plans online, in which he …

“My family displacement has been a poem I’m trying to write, but because of occupation and exile, outside and inside, this poem is escaping and falling off the borders of my page,” Mosab Abu Toha tells The New Arab. Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet…

Lebanese singer Nancy Ajram has come under fire after putting on blackface to ‘prank’ her fans for a video. To celebrate her 39th birthday, Ajram decided to walk on the streets of Lebanon’s capital city Beirut with her skindarkened by makeup and wearin…

Qatar’s $300 billion sovereign wealth fund plans to invest $5 billion in Spanish projects, the Gulf state’s monarch said late on Tuesday at a dinner held in his honour in Madrid. The amount shows how confident Qatar is in the Spanish economy’s strength…