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Voices from the Arab press

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

Translated and compiled by The Media Line. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org

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 IN IRAN’S central city of Isfahan.

Voices from the Arab press: Israel and the question of deterrence

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 PALESTINIAN GUERRILLAS patrol the Amman streets in Sept. 1970, after a civil war – known as Black September – broke out between the Jordanian army and various Palestinian forces.

Voices from the Arab press: Iran is at the forefront, and Gaza is being sidelined

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 DONALD TRUMP arrives for his first 2024 presidential campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport in Texas, March 25. The rally coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Waco standoff.

Voices from the Arab press: Cairo negotiations: Why are mediators optimistic?

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 PORTRAIT OF IRGC generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haj Rahimi, slain in an April 1 Israeli airstrike and noted as ‘Martyrs of Quds’ [Jerusalem], seen on a Tehran street.

Voices from the Arab press: Iran and Israel: Is the denial game over?

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 BURNING AN Israeli flag during a Hezbollah-organized demonstration, in Sidon, Lebanon, 2017.

Voices from the Arab press: Lebanon: Immediate ceasefire or inevitable disaster

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 PROTESTING THE Iranian regime with flags and a huge inflated figure representing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei holding a nuclear bomb, near the Munich Security Conference venue, Feb. 16.

Voices from the Arab press: Will Israel find opportunity to strike Iran nuke facility?

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 US ENVOY Amos Hochstein (L) meets with Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Beirut, March 4.

No truce in Gaza, what about south Lebanon? Voices from the Arab press

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 A NIQAB-CLAD woman prays in Cairo.

Voices from the Arab press: Niqab crisis will strike Egypt sooner or later

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 EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT Gamal Abdel Nasser (R) meets with Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie in Cairo, 1950s.

Voices from the Arab press: The Nile is a life-or-death issue

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 JABALIYA, GAZA CITY, seen on October 11, 2023.

Voices from the Arab press: What are the true objectives behind the war?

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 ROYAL NAVY coastal minesweeper ‘HMS Wilton’ takes part in Operation Rheostat to clear Egypt’s Suez Canal of mines, 1974.Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/ Getty Images

Voices from the Arab press: The limits of Iran's regional proxies

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A member of Hashd al-Shaabi (paramilitary forces) holds a flag of Kataib Hezbollah militia group during a protest to condemn air strikes on their bases, in Baghdad, Iraq December 31, 2019

Voices from the Arab press: Iraq: Battleground for waning factions settling scores

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 HOUTHI REBELS aboard the ‘Galaxy Leader’ provide a Nov. 22 tour of this  Bahamas-flagged, British- owned cargo ship, seized  two days earlier. The vessel, docked in a port on the Red Sea in the Yemeni province of Hodeida, flew Palestinian and Yemeni flags.

Voices from the Arab press: Gaza war negatively affected US presence in region

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