Karim Traboulsi

Aug 16, 2023 | english.alaraby.co.uk | Karim Traboulsi

In a region plagued by growing poverty, inequality, conflict, and environmental disasters, MENA leaders have focused their energies on a much more urgent and menacing threat: Barbie, writes The New Arab’s Managing Editor, Karim Traboulsi. The biggest threat facing the MENA region today is Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Movie.

Aug 15, 2023 | newarab.com | Karim Traboulsi

The biggest threat facing the MENA region today is Greta Gerwig's Barbie Movie. Aware of this existential threat, the brave censors of some countries in the MENA - such as bankrupt Lebanon - have been risking life and limb to stand up to the invasive pink aggression. They have decided to sit through over two hours of its runtime, so that no one in their countries would have to. True, the MENA region is among the hardest hit by climate change.

Jun 24, 2023 | english.alaraby.co.uk | Karim Traboulsi

A mutiny led by the Wagner mercenary group against the Russian regime, fuelled by the failure of the war in Ukraine, has created uncertainty and potential for a significant shift in Russia's stability, with global implications and unknown outcomes. Many Russia watchers expected some kind of coup would take place against Vladimir Putin's regime should the Russian army and its allied militias and mercenaries fail to achieve a victory significant enough to be marketable at home.

Jun 23, 2023 | newarab.com | Karim Traboulsi