Al-Araby

Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Islamic Affairs has ordered that a young female employee of the ministry replace her spokesman manager, after deciding that her educational background was more appropriate. The appointment makes Shahad Manshi the first female…

Hundreds of Palestinians participated in the funeral of Ali Harb, the 27-year-old Palestinian from the village of Skaka near Salfit in the northern occupied West Bank, who was killed late on Tuesday by Israeli settlers. Harb’s body was taken from the A…

The United Nations on Wednesday urged Iran to halt plans to amputate the fingers of eight prisoners and called on Tehran to do away with any form of corporal punishment. UN Human Rights Office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said seven of the men were cu…

Arab-inspired fantasy books are few and far between in the Anglophone publishing world, even more so when they’re coming from voices borne from the region itself. Written by American-Kuwaiti Chelsea Abdullah and published by Orbit Books, The Stardust T…

Indonesian President and G20 chair Joko Widodo will visit the leaders of Ukraine and Russia this month to discuss the economic and humanitarian fallout of Moscow’s invasion, his foreign minister said on Wednesday. The summit of the Group of 20 major ec…

Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh said Tuesday the bank’s foreign currency reserves had dropped by $2.2 billion so far in 2022 to about $11 billion, about a third of the level three years ago. Salameh made the comments during a recorded inter…

Dozens of Malians demonstrated Tuesday in the central town of Bankass to demand state protection after suspected Muslim extremists massacred at least 132 civilians, and possibly many more, in nearby neighbouring villages. The mass killing – the latest …

Britain on Wednesday will launch talks over a new free trade deal with six Gulf states, the trade ministry said, in the latest set of negotiations aimed at increasing non-EU ties after Brexit. Trade minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan will visit Riyadh to be…

Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif appeared in court on Monday in connection with an old corruption case and was granted exemption from further appearances in person in the hearings, his defense lawyer said. The case dating back fou…

A Minnesota judge on Tuesday once again rescheduled the trial of two former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s murder to 24 October because of battling requests from the prosecution and the defence. Earlier this month Hennepin County…