Arab Dispatch
Since 2019,
the #ArabDispatch is a weekly publication aimed at keeping the audience updated
about significant events in the Arab world through Arab eyes.
Among the sources: Arab media and institutes or specialised international think-tanks.
Every issue features three brief summaries of particularly relevant events in
North Africa, Levant, and the Gulf.
The closing section #ArabInsight provides a discerning commentary on Arab media contents.
December 2021
30th (Nov.) - 9th
Algeria’s FNL survives in local elections. The UN celebrates the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian people while Bahrain promotes tolerance in the Gulf. First ever conviction for DAESH genocide against Yazidi.
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9th - 15th
Algeria strengthens ties with Iran. Jordanians MPs leave a parliamentary session in sign of protest against the energy-for-water deal while Qatar will be the first gulf country to start gas explorations in eastern Mediterranean. How a summer fruit becomes the symbol of the Palestinian resistance.
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15th - 22nd
Unsurprisingly Libyan presidential election got delayed. While Lebanon orders the deportation of Al-Wefaq members, the US Navy tests laser weapons amid Houthis’ threat. Turkey’s marginalization of religious and ethnic minorities compared to the religious openness of Ottoman Sultans.
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November 2021
2nd - 11th
UN urges Libya to maintain the political roadmap. A diplomatic crisis between Beirut and Riyadh adds fuel to the Lebanese battered economy while the Biden’s administration announces its first major arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Al Jazeera news channel celebrates its 25th anniversary.
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17th - 24th
Well-known Libyan political figures will run in presidential elections. Jordan faces unprecedented drought crisis while in Iraq Muqtada al-Sadr’s victory will asses Iraq’s political future. The Normalisation agreement marks its first anniversary.
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24th - 30th
Morocco signs its first ever MoU with Israel while the Lebanese economic crisis worsens amid a diplomatic dispute with Saudi Arabia. Abu Dhabi and Ankara sign cooperation deals and Vienna hosts JCPOA talks.
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October 2021
5th - 12th
Tensions between Algeria and Morocco are dangerously raising while the Lebanese PM is committed to restart talks with the IMF. Within the Gulf, the UAE is reconsidering its rivalries and in Egypt a feminist music band is fighting gender discrimination through lyrics.
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12th - 19th
The new Tunisiancabinet will include ten female members while Jordan signed an historic water agreement with Israel. Iraq hold its fifth national elections since the 2003’s war. Arab perceptions over the U.S. administration.
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19th - 26th
Egypt strengthens energy cooperation with Greece and Cyprus while Lebanon resumes talks over maritime borders dispute with Israel. In Yemen Houthis intensified their attacks against Marib. After ten years since Gaddafi’s death Libya’s political stability remains precarious.
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26th - 2nd (Nov)
Algeria officially ends gas supplies to Morocco while Russia rethinks its strategy to bring Syria out from international isolation. Dubai government announces industrial investments in Jammu and Kashmir. Human rights activists are cautious about Egypt lifting the state of emergency.
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May 2021
6th/20th
While the Egypt-Turkey normalisation might lead to a lasting stability in Libya the fighting in Gaza deepens Israel’s internal divisions. Meanwhile MBS reaffirms his diplomatic ties with Pakistan and Lebanon, facing a severe economic crisis, risk a “total darkness”.
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April 2021
1st/8th
While the GNU struggles to integrate militias in a unified national army the Jordan monarchy is shaken by an alleged coup. In Yemen MBS’ new peace plan to finally exit the conflict fails and in Egypt a former minister of culture calls to change Cairo’s Ottoman-era names.
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8th/15th
Sudan and Egypt carry out Joint military exercises to warn Ethiopia. While Lebanese minister expands claims over its maritime border with Israel, Iran accuses Israel of nuclear terrorism attack. UAE commemorates its first ever Yom HaShoah.
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22nd/6th (May)
Benghazi’s persisting divide undermines Libya’s GNU. While Syrian missiles reveals Israel’s fragility, Saudi Arabia and Iran move towards a new dialogue-oriented approach. The Egyptian Ramadan action-drama sparks controversy on the media.
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March 2021
25th (Feb)/4th
Ennahda’s supporters pour into the streets of Tunis along with Lebanese rallying to back church leader’s neutrality call. Qatar’s attempt to regain a role in the region followed by the theological debate over female imams.
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4th/11th
The Libyan Parliament approves the interim government along to Jordanian King’s calls for political reforms. Qatar’s ambiguous attempt to restore diplomatic ties with Yemen while the entire world assists to Pope’s Francis unprecedent visit to Iraq.
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11th/18th
Egypt and Turkey might resume diplomatic ties while Netanyahu’s visit to the UAE got cancelled due to a dispute with the Jordanian King. Escalating Houthis’ attacks on Saudi Arabia unsettle the oil market along with the controversary topic of women’s empowerment in the Gulf.
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25th/1st (April)
Egypt faces two major disasters and Israeli elections’ results threaten Palestinians’ political reality. In the Gulf, while MBS launches the Saudi and Middle East Green Initiative, the first diplomatic crisis since the Abraham accords erupts between the UAE and Israel.
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February 2021
28th (Jan)/4th
The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum nominates a transitional government. The US restores diplomatic ties with Palestine while Italy, following Biden’s decision, halts arms sales to Saudi Arabia. A new citizenship policy in UAE ignites controversy on social media.
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4th/11th
GERD negotiations remain stalled. The murder of a prominent Lebanese Shiite opposition thinker shakes theLevant , while in the Gulf the US administration ends its support to the Saudi-led coalition and the UAE celebrates Amal mission to Mars.
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11th/18th
The newly formed Interim Government sparks hopes for Libyans. While Jordan focuses on economic cooperation in the region, Bahrein witnesses a difficult financial recovery followed by the evolution of the Takfir ideology from early Islam to Daesh.
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18th/25th
A disappointing Government’s reshuffle sparks anger among Algerians along with a bizarre prisoner swap between Israel and Syria. While Turkey takes advantage of GCC’s reconciliation, Biden bypasses MBS.
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January 2021
1st / 7th
MENA economic stagnation: labor strikes in Tunisia along with Lebanon’s financial collapse. While Houthis’ attacks undermine the Yemeni government, Arab media celebrate the end of the GGC blockade against Qatar.
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7th/14th
New horizons with the British-Moroccan Gibraltar tunnel and a less promising vaccination campaign in Palestine. Yemen’s perspectives after the GCC reconciliation along with the anniversary of Gen. Soleimani’s death.
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14th/21st
Massive unrests in Tunisia. The US moves Israel under the CENTCOM while designates UAE and Bahrain as major security partners. Arab media unveil their scepticism over Biden’s presidential election victory.
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21st/28th
Al-Sarraj creates a new security body to ensure his position in Libya. Prisoners exchange in Jordan between Yemen’s warring sides while suicide bombings claimed by ISIS spark fears in Iraq. Vaccine race in the MENA explained by Arab media.
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