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Book Club: Amrou Al-Kadhi's award-winning memoir is a poignant and moving story about the author's fight to be true to themselves.
Book Club: From fiction to insightful memoirs and social commentary, The New Arab rounds up some of the best books written by Arab authors this year.
Fighting to advance the hard-won freedoms of Tunisia's revolution
In-depth: From women's rights to freedom of expression, progressives in Tunisia's young democracy are fighting to preserve and advance the social gains of the revolution.
A Match Made In Heaven: Muslim women talk desire
Book Club: A new anthology of stories by British Muslim women exploring romance and desire proves to be a powerful and nuanced response to ...
Blair Imani: 'Donald Trump is a danger to Muslims'
The New Arab Meets: Blair Imani, the 26-year-old powerhouse balancing authorship and activism in a heavily divided, election-heavy America.
Blair Imani: 'Trump is a danger to Muslims'
The New Arab Meets: Blair Imani, the 26-year-old powerhouse balancing authorship and activism in a heavily divided, election-heavy America.
Diaspora in Bloom: Spotlighting contemporary Assyrian art and identity
A virtual but intimate exhibition aims to showcase modern-day Assyrian art created by the ancient community's widespread diaspora, exploring the ...
Syrian men, trans women suffered ‘monstrous’ sexual violence
Human Rights Watch has reported of harrowing violence in Syria against men and trans women during the war.
Arab LGBT community mourns the loss of Sara Hegazy
The death of Egyptian activist Sara Hegazy sent shockwaves through the Arab LGBT community.
For Sarah Hegazy: In rage, in grief, in exhaustion
Comment: Sarah Hegazy was driven to take her life by Egypt's state-powered, lethal patriarchy. As we continue to resist, may she rest, spared of ...
Coronavirus: Lebanon's LGBT+ community is locked down and unprotected
LGBT+ people in Lebanon, whose mere existence is already criminalised, often depend on community centres, tight social networks and dedicated ...
The fight for LGBT rights in Iraq's revolution
LGBT Iraqis are fighting for their rights on the frontline of the country's protest movement.
The loneliness of being queer and Muslim
Comment: LGBT Muslims in the UK face both homophobia and Islamophobia, writes Aniqah Choudhri.
How this Arab feminist writer is smashing the patriarchy
#IWD2020: Egyptian feminist Mona Eltahawy's new book shows how the seven deadly sins can be used to dismantle patriarchal power structures ...
The best books by Arab authors in 2019
Book Club: The New Arab rounds up some of the best reads written in English by Arab authors this year.
'Queer Palestinians' attacked in homophobic hate crime
Sammy and her two friends were beaten near Ramallah as police watched in an anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime.
LGBT+ refugees denied asylum if not 'flamboyant', study says
A new study suggests that many asylum applications by LGBT+ refugees are rejected because the asylum seekers did not live 'Western gay ...
Tunisia's queer festival makes proud comeback
The Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival is a ground-breaking event promoting queer culture in a country where homosexuality ...
Voices That Shake! Developing creative responses to social injustice
The New Arab Meets: Farzana Khan, an award-winning youth worker tackling imbalance in society through an under-repped approach that hits ...
Comment: Our very existence endangers the dominance of racist ideologies and heteronormative narratives, writes Idris Martin.
Tunisia rocks taboo on LGBTQ+ rights
Post-revolutionary Tunisia continues to push the debate about gay rights into the public sphere, braving a repressive law, gender-based ...
Tunisia's LGBT community demand change
In-depth: Tunisia's LGBTQI community are taking bold steps to demand equality and recognition and hope to drag the conservative government with ...
Tunisia's first LGBT 'queer film festival' gets underway
The Mawjoudin film festival kicked off in Tunisia on Monday to show films exploring themes of 'sexuality, identity and gender ...
Choufthounna: The feminist art festival in Tunisia
The New Arab went to a feminist art festival in Tunisia, with performances, classes and demonstations from all over the world,
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