Andrea Glioti

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.