The Gulf Today

The Gulf Today is a daily newspaper published in English, consisting of 36 pages, and is based in the United Arab Emirates. It stands out as one of the four major broadsheet newspapers in the country. This publication was established on April 15, 1996, by brothers Taryam Omran Taryam and Dr. Abdullah Omran Taryam, who are the founders of Dar Al Khaleej for Press, Printing & Publishing. Additionally, the Dar Al Khaleej group is known for producing Al Khaleej, which is the most widely read Arabic daily broadsheet in the Gulf region. The Gulf Today also offers colorful weekend supplements, including the entertainment tabloid Time Out and the magazine Panorama, both of which are distributed for free with the newspaper. Time Out and Panorama feature a variety of topics, including film, sports, literature, politics, and entertainment, spanning from Hollywood to Bollywood. To stay relevant in the evolving media landscape, The Gulf Today's marketing team, made up of knowledgeable and energetic professionals, has established a strong reputation among both readers and advertisers. Their dedicated marketing and sales efforts have successfully attracted a diverse and respected group of advertisers.

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Britain must be ready to reform international agreements

1 week ago | gulftoday.ae | John Rentoul

Something extraordinary has just happened. In March, Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, said that she was reviewing the way the European Convention on Human Rights was being interpreted by the courts. Three months later, no one will defend the convention as it is. Two more MPs joined the stampede to change it today: Jake Richards and Dan Tomlinson, two ambitious Labour backbenchers, have a joint article in The Times calling for "reform" of the convention.
Netanyahu diverts global attention from Gaza war

1 week ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu chose Friday 13th as his lucky day, the day he would at long last launch his attack on Iran. As he has not been compelled to ceasefire in his Gaza war or held accountable for Israel's repression in the occupied West Bank, Netanyahu clearly believes there are no restraints on Israel. It can do whatever it wants.
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2 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Andrew Grice

Keir Starmer told his cabinet that the spending review marked the start of a “new phase” which delivers Labour’s much-promised change. Which can be roughly translated as: we hope the public forget our mistakes in our first year and give us a fresh look. For some voters, that will prove a big ask. Despite Starmer’s plea, Rachel Reeves’s spending review felt more like one that would be made towards the end of a five-year parliament — not four years out from the next election.
Unjust retaliation

2 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

The Trump administration could declare a US travel ban on widely acclaimed rights lawyer Amal Clooney for her role in advising the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor who issued arrest warrants against Israeli leaders. The warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant were made public in November 2024 after the US imposed sanctions on ICC prosecutor Karim Khan.
Gaza war must end for the sake of humanity

2 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

Gaza is “worse than hell on earth,” International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) chief Mirjana Spoljaric told the BBC’s Jermy Bowen following her latest visit to the strip. “We cannot continue to watch what is happening. It’s surpassing any acceptable, legal, moral, and humane standard. The level of destruction, the level of suffering...we are watching a people entirely stripped of its human dignity.
Here is how Ukraine can still beat Russia

3 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Trudy Rubin

When you read this, I will just have arrived at the Pearl of the Black Sea, as this historic, much beloved, multiethnic city was known in the peaceful days before Vladimir Putin tried to break it with missiles and drones. Since no Ukrainian airports are open, the route took me by air from New York via Bucharest, Romania, to Chișinău, the capital of Moldova, and then four hours by car across the Ukrainian border to Odesa.
‘Fresh ideas’ mooted to close gap in US-Iran N-deal talks

3 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

Donald Trump has said he warned Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against attacking Iran because Washington and Tehran are close to reaching a deal on limiting that country's nuclear programme in exchange for lifting sanctions. He said this would be an unprecedented agreement as US as well as UN inspectors would be included on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) teams monitoring Iran's nuclear sites.
Ivy fight

1 month ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

Why is Donald Trump waging war on Harvard, the oldest and among the most prestigious universities in the United States and is ranked among the top five around the world? Founded 1636, 140 years before the Britain’s 13 North American colonies declared independence in 1776. The university was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard.
Gaza, from prosperity to below the poverty line

1 month ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

For millennia Gaza served as a commercial hub and bridge between Egypt and the Eastern Arab World. Palestinian writer and activist Edward Said wrote about travelling from Cairo, where his family resided, through Gaza and Jerusalem en route to the Lebanese mountains to escape Egypt’s sweltering summers. Palestinian friends said their relatives living in Jerusalem would travel to Cairo via Gaza in winter to escape the cold.
Route to recovery

1 month ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

In the good old days, it used to take three hours to travel in a service taxi from Beirut to Damascus. We swooped up Mount Lebanon along the wide Damascus highway through the towns of Aley, Bhamdoun and Sofar before slipping down to the fertile Bekaa Valley and beginning the second climb up the barren Anti-Lebanon range.