Society

Suicides in Kuwait have rocketed, prompting calls for urgent research into the causes. However, it is clear that widespread marginalisation and alienation are two major aspects of Kuwait's mental health crisis.

As Russia continues to bombard Ukraine, a number of Lebanese students are caught in the crossfires with many unable to afford a ticket to get back home.

Islamic banking has long been repressed in South Africa, both due to Apartheid and general ignorance towards the Muslim banking system. However, with investment from the Gulf and Subcontinent, Islamic banking is now growing in popularity.

Contrary to how the Arab world is often perceived, the region is awash with racial, ethnic, religious diversity. One especially prominent group are Black Arabs, who have been a cultural and political force throughout the Arab world's history.

A new initiative called Ibni has helped provide support and training for disabled persons in Jordan. Created and run by those with disabilities, the project has helped shift obsolete notions of disability across the region.

Past statements from Egypt’s Al-Azhar Grand Imam that condones beating ‘arrogant’ wives as per a school of Quranic interpretation has brought back into the fore a painful debate of whether its permissible to beat up one's wife in Egypt.

Rayan’s passing was a terrible tragedy that filled the world with sorrow. In the Arab world, the plight of Rayan has since galvanised cross-border solidarity and is proof that, despite conflict and unrest, humans lie at the centre of our future.

After a transgender woman was killed by her own brother in Iraqi Kurdistan, LGBTQ+ activists argue that the Kurdish authorities are ultimately complicit in the crime, and responsible for the surge of transphobic violence in the region.

Several female activists are feared to have gone missing in the past weeks in the face of an escalating Taliban crackdown against women. Six months after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, The New Arab investigates their current predicament.

Idlib has seen an alarming rise in cyber blackmail, with online harassers targeting women and girls, hacking their accounts and threatening to publish private photos if they refuse the blackmailers' demands: usually sex, money, or both.