The New Arab Staff

Anas Ambri

Ambri

Anas is a researcher at The New Arab Investigative Unit.
Areas of focus: FOIs, migration, MENA

Pro-Russia disinformation network is behind fabricated killing of “journalist” who broke fictitious story on Zelensky villa purchase in Egypt.

12 January, 2024

Architecture firm tasked with designing hotel in Jerusalem's Old City is suspending its work on the project due to settler links revealed by TNA investigations

27 December, 2023

Armed US citizen spotted in confrontations between Jewish settlers and Armenians has ties to Jerusalem’s Deputy Mayor Arieh King and the Israel Land Fund, a group whose mission is to settle Jews in occupied East Jerusalem.

08 December, 2023

In 2015 leaked emails revealed Lebanon's likely purchase of spyware that could be used in illicit surveillance. The New Arab raises questions about ongoing risks to citizens' privacy rights in the lack of institutional oversight and accountability.

21 November, 2023

After the Armenian Patriarchate requested to cancel a land lease, Danny Rothman, the man behind the deal, was seen next to armed settlers in Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter. A settler linked to Israel’s minister of national security was also there.

15 November, 2023

Experts have expressed doubt after Israel released a recording allegedly featuring two Hamas operatives discussing Palestinian Islamic Jihad's potential responsibility for the al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital massacre.

20 October, 2023

Circumstances around press visit into Kfar Aza kibbutz caused unsubstantiated claim of beheading of babies to go viral. Israel took advantage of misinformation to push narrative equating Palestinian Hamas with ISIS.

13 October, 2023

Satellite images show the construction of an airstrip in Southern Lebanon

13 September, 2023

Images purportedly showing Israeli intelligence officer on Yemen’s Socotra island caused outrage on social media. The New Arab finds that allegations are unfounded and some pictures were taken elsewhere.

06 September, 2023

Clashes erupted on the night of July 23 in Jaramana, a Damascus suburb, over the rumoured death of a local. Videos shot elsewhere propagated misleading anti-regime narrative.

10 August, 2023