Kuwait's migrant workers face a treacherous future, as unregulated working conditions and poor sanitation facilities allow COVID-19 to spread with ease [Getty]
28 October, 2021
A recent study found migrant workers suffered over a 70% increase in mortality as COVID-19 hit Kuwait, leaving an already defenseless population to fend for themselves.
Arab Americans are a growing and diverse demographic. [Getty]
Article: Navigating Arab identity in America’s racial landscape
05 November, 2020
For Arab Americans, finding a sense of belonging in the United States is a complex and evolving journey, writes Yousef H. Alshammari.
Despite a leftward trend, many Arab Americans still gravitate towards the Republican Party. [Getty]
Article: The Arab American Republicans voting for Trump
28 October, 2020
In-depth: Over a third of Arab Americans polled say they prefer Donald Trump - an indication that many still gravitate towards the Republican Party.
The Arab American community is focused on a wide range of social and economic issues.[Getty]
Article: Young Arab American voters aren’t the monolithic bloc the US thinks they are
20 October, 2020
US Election 2020: Sharing a diverse range of social, political and economic concerns, young Arab Americans are dispelling the myth of a single-issue voting bloc.
Gargeean festival celebrations at a park in Kuwait City earlier this month. (Jaber Abdulkhaleg/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Article: Gargeean’s Bittersweet Offerings
April 10, 2023
The holiday brings more to the Gulf than a merry tradition
A protestor holds a sign that reads “no law, no protection” during a protest in Kuwait/Photo courtesy of author/Newlines
Article: ‘Silence No More’: Women’s Rights in Kuwait Face an Uphill Battle
April 23, 2021
A brutal murder offers a watershed moment to grapple with the country’s discriminatory laws against women — but the opportunity might be squandered
Article: Kuwait’s Media Landscape Needs Structural and Social Reform
July 2020
It is an open secret that in the Gulf states, journalism does not fulfill its role as the fourth estate of democracy, as is reflected in the levels of democratic freedoms across the region.
Kuwaiti MPs attend a parliamentary session in Kuwait City [File: Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP]
Article: Kuwait’s political crisis leaves opposition waiting for new era
11 Apr 2023
A new government in Kuwait, but an old parliament – and one that has returned in complicated circumstances.
Signs advertising the 2020 US census cover a closed and boarded up business amid the coronavirus outbreak in Seattle, Washington [Brian Snyder/Reuters]
Article: Why is there no MENA category on the 2020 US census?
1 Apr 2020
The 2020 US census suggests those of Lebanese, Egyptian and other MENA descent select ‘white’ on the race question.
Writer and director Darin Sallam [Getty]
Article: ‘Loyal to the story’: Inside the mind of Farha’s Darin Sallam
09 February, 2023
The New Arab Meets: Writer and director Darin Sallam, whose acclaimed film Farha, based on a true Palestinian story during the Nakba, was loyal to the realities faced by Palestinians across time and space.
Kuwaiti women cast their votes during parliamentary elections in Kuwait City on September 29, 2022 [Getty]
14 December, 2022
As women return to occupy two seats in parliament and two in government, the struggle toward progressive legislation and breaking class barriers continue to riddle women in Kuwait while the country claims entry into a “new era.”
Actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson appears at the Warner Brothers panel promoting his upcoming film "Black Adam" at 2022 Comic-Con on 23 July 2022 in San Diego, California. [Getty]
Article: No redemption for the whiteness in Black Adam
08 Nov, 2022
Despite his Middle Eastern roots, Black Adam is far from an Arab superhero, and remains trapped in a white imagination full of Orientalist tropes, writes Yousef H. Alshammari.
Stateless Arabs, known as Bidoon, take part in a protest to demand citizenship and other basic rights in Jahra, 50 km (31 miles) northwest of Kuwait City [Getty Images]
Article: Unsung, unseen and unheard: Kuwait’s stateless Bidoon women speak out
14 April, 2022
Facing both a complicated set of socio-political obstacles and cultural impediments, women in Kuwait continue to struggle in voicing their political needs in political action. For stateless women, much of that same voice is largely muffled.