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2 months ago | 
newarab.com | Anas Ambri |Hope Barker |Andrea Glioti
For Abu Iskander Alshami the question of returning to a post-Assad Syria is fraught with uncertainty. "My situation is similar to 90% of Syrians - undecided," he told The New Arab. We spoke with Alshami on 17 December 2024, just days after Syria's longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad fled the country. Originally from Damascus, Alshami has been living in Cyprus for the past nine years. "Some people cannot go back simply because they do not have a home to go back to. That's the case for me as well.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
newarab.com | Anas Ambri |Andrea Glioti
German state-owned broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) applied a clear double standard in handling Islamophobia accusations from one of its employees, an investigation by The New Arab (TNA) can establish, in sharp contrast with how it handled equivalent complaints regarding alleged antisemitism.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
mondoweiss.net | Anas Ambri
Leaked documents show the extent of collaboration between the pro-Israel legal advocacy group and the Israeli government, in their attempt to “counter” the work of human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
newarab.com | Sofia Cherici |Anas Ambri |Andrea Glioti
First, they found a picture of the apartment building online. The body gutted, reclining in a pile of its own rubble, looked like a fish left with nothing but meatless spines. They left for Antakya in a rush the following day. On the second day, they walked through what remained of the ancient city. When they reached the site where the building had stood, Duygu İnegöllü, a lawyer from Izmir, and her family, began their watch over the pancaked body of scrap metal and concrete.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
newarab.com | Anas Ambri |Richard Silverstein
The Telegram channel of Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), a journalist collective specialised in the publication of hacked material online, was shut down after sharing more than 1 million leaked documents from the Israeli ministry of justice.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
newarab.com | Anas Ambri |Andrea Glioti
On 20 September 2023, Montserrat Marín Lopez, the executive director of the EU's law enforcement training agency CEPOL, met in Cairo Mohammad Bin Ali Kuman, the secretary general of the Arab Interior Ministers' Council ( AIMC). The meeting was part of an official visit of Marín Lopez to Egypt, aiming to connect "with existing and new CEPOL partners to explore different opportunities of collaborating in the future," as per an announcement on CEPOL's website a few days later.
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May 23, 2024 | 
newarab.com | Anas Ambri |Andrea Glioti
[This article is the fifth part of The Armenian Quarter Files, a series of investigations into a controversial land deal in occupied East Jerusalem]. The New Arab Investigative Unit can reveal that a veteran of the notorious Netzah Yehuda battalion was involved in confrontations with the Armenian community in Jerusalem.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
newarab.com | Jessica Buxbaum |Anas Ambri
Earlier this year, several Western countries froze their funding to UNRWA after Israel accused 12 of its employees of participating in the 7 October attacks. The accusations sparked international uproar and reignited a longstanding campaign within Israel to expel UNRWA from Jerusalem. While attempts to "evict" UNRWA's Jerusalem offices are not new, the campaign is now bolstered at both the governmental and grassroots levels.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
newarab.com | Anas Ambri |Jessica Buxbaum
On 15 December 2023, the Israeli cabinet announced that it would allow the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing. The announcement overturned a previous decision by Israel to put Gaza under total siege in retaliation for the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023. Allowing the entry of humanitarian aid, however, did not sit well with some families of the captives taken on 7 October.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
newarab.com | Anas Ambri |Jessica Buxbaum
[This article is the fourth part of The Armenian Quarter Files, a series of investigations into a controversial land deal in occupied East Jerusalem]. On the morning of 28 December 2023, a group of masked men descended on the Armenian Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem, and started dismantling a fence surrounding the quarter's parking lot in the Cows' Garden area. Members of the local Armenian community had recently erected this barrier.
