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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Here is how Ukraine can still beat Russia

4 days 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

5 days 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 week 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 week 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

2 weeks 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.
Walz says Trump has been 'more effective' this term

2 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Eric Garcia

Gov. Tim Walz keeps a copy of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation blueprint for the Trump administration, on his desk as a kind of scorecard for Donald Trump's second term. For much of his 91 days as Kamala Harris' vice presidential running mate in 2024, he invoked the conservative roadmap and warned that Trump would enact its policies should he return to the White House, even as Trump tried to distance himself from it.
Lifting Syria sanctions a complex, time-taking task

2 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

On the regional political front, Donald Trump's Gulf tour yielded positive results for Syrians and negative consequences for Palestinians. Following a meeting with Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, Trump announced an end to 49 years of punishing US sanctions on Syria. Following Trump’s change of policy, US secretary of state Marco Rubio and Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani met in Turkey to discuss normalisation between the two countries.
Why these Republicans finally stood up to Donald Trump

2 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Eric M. Garcia

The One Big Beautiful Bill isn’t quite dead. But it is resting. Five hardline conservative Republicans joined the Democrats on the House Budget Committee to sink President Donald Trump’s massive domestic policy and tax cut legislation. The main culprits were the House Freedom Caucus, the group of rambunctious hellraisers who have long been a thorn in the side of Republican leadership since its formation in 2015.
Cannes 2025: India has a diverse slate

3 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Saibal Chatterjee

After the unprecedented high of 2024, the ongoing 78th Cannes Film Festival might feel like a bit of a dampener for India. The world’s largest film-producing nation has no entry in the festival’s main Competition this year. Its presence is, however, strong enough in terms of both films and personalities not to be dismissed as insignificant.
Making history

3 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

Poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha has many firsts in his short life. He is the first Arab and first Palestinian to win one of the prestigious 23 Pulitzer Prizes awarded this month by Columbia University for excellence in writing in the US. The awards were set up in 1917 by wealthy newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. Abu Toha won in in the Commentary category. Each winner receives a document and $15,000 in cash.