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.

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.

Karim Traboulsi is the Managing Editor of The New Arab. Here, he explains, The New Arab confidently pledges to its existing and new readers to continue to be an authentic, unique, and forward-looking source of information.

The New Arab's Managing Editor, Karim Traboulsi, writes a scathing indictment of the Lebanese government and its negligence over the devastating Beirut explosion.

Fed up with corruption, an out-of-touch political class, a growing economic crisis and total failure of basic services, large numbers of Lebanese men and women have taken to the streets

Comment: Any progress on women's rights will be a concession, not a royal gift conferred upon subjects, forced to answer with deference and gratitude, writes Karim Traboulsi.