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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VE Day, Trump distances US from Europe alliance

3 days ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

The 8th anniversary last Thursday of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany (VE Day) was celebrated royally in Britain with marching bands and colour-coded regiments, a service in Westminster Cathedral, an air force fly-past, and wreath laying by King Charles and Queen Camilla. Ceremonies were held at war memorials in cities, towns, and villages in France, where VE day is a public holiday.
Making food a political issue throttles Gaza lives

1 week ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

In a world where 757 million people face chronic hunger, and 45 million children suffer from wasting due to acute malnutrition, Gaza stands out as unique. War, drought, earthquakes, and other natural disasters are responsible for starvation in other places. Gaza is the only territory where a hostile foreign power illegally occupying Gaza is deliberately depriving the population of food, water, fuel, and medical supplies. Weaponising food is prohibited under international law.
Running on empty

1 week ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

A week ago, Donald Trump said he had pressed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to let food and medicine into Gaza. He told the press in his plane as he flew to Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis, “Those people are suffering. We’ve got to be good to Gaza. We’re taking care of it.” It remains to be seen whether Israel will listen. At the time of writing this article, the blockade of food, fuel, and medicine continues.
Everyone is experiencing them but what is an ‘ego death’?

2 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Olivia Petter

David Harbour is the latest celebrity to experience ego death. At least, that was what he said in a recent interview with the Stranger Things star published in GQ. “It’s all just ego,” he told the magazine during a conversation about his own fame. “It seems kind of silly to say this, but the art that I’m creating is about you. It’s not about me. It’s about your experience of life. We get hung up on (the person themselves), and I think we get lost in the idea of, like, what it’s really about.
Even the day before death Pope urged end to Gaza war

2 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

Western secular leaders and religious patriarchs and prelates attended Pope Francis’ globally televised Vatican state funeral in Rome on Saturday. He would have preferred a quiet blessing as he was entombed at the 4th century Basilica de Santi Maria Maggiore where seven other popes have been laid to rest rather than at St. Peter’s.
Speech under siege

2 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

Last week articles appeared in The Washington Post and The Guardian by Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate arrested without producing a warrant by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents intent on his deportation. He wrote from a detention facility in Louisiana far from his wife Noor Abdalla, a US citizen who is about to deliver their first child. For company he has dozens of others who have been held for weeks and months without legal hearings until they could be deported.
Hamdan attends launch of Dubai AI Week 2025

3 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae

Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of...
Farage’s party has been talking to Truss - a big mistake

3 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | John Rentoul

He has sensed an opportunity for Reform. Having picked up the support of a large number of former Conservative voters who felt betrayed by the last government, especially over immigration, he was well placed to recruit former Labour voters, who have been unimpressed by the new government’s delivery of “change”. Hence the astute outflanking of the government on the traditional left, calling for the renationalisation of British Steel before Keir Starmer was forced into it last weekend.
Trust in America virtually zero over Iran nuclear deal talks

3 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

The situation in this region might have been very different if during his first term in office Donald Trump had not withdrawn the US from the 2015 six-party deal to limit Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for lifting sanctions. If Iran had abided by its commitments – which it did until 2019 – Iran’s nuclear programme would have remained stuck in the past.
No in-between

3 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Michael Jansen

Celebrated Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani is currently focusing on the prosecution of British citizens who have been accused of war crimes while fighting in the Israeli army during the Gaza war. Sourani is a member of a team of lawyers from the Palestine Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) which last week submitted a a 240-page report to Britain’s Metropolitan Police war crimes unit. Among the 10 accused are dual British-Israeli citizens.