Category ARAB WORLD

Afghan TV channel reopens after Taliban shutdown

The Afghan Journalism Center (AFJC), a press freedom advocacy group, welcomed the reopening but said in a statement that it considered the closure “an egregious violation of free media rights that should not have happened.” KABUL: An Afghan television station…

X drops out of global media brands ranking

Twitter’s brand value dropped from $5.7bn in 2022 to $673.3m in 2024    Instagram is the fastest-growing media brand DUBAI: Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, has dropped out of a ranking of global media brands by UK-based brand valuation and…

US Assassinations Reverberate in Iraq Two Years On

The assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) elite Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi militia commander, head of Kataib Hezbollah and de facto leader of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF),…

What Yemen Can Learn From Farmers in India

Surprisingly, ending the war in, or rather on, Yemen is no longer an immediate concern. The gratuitous violence can continue, for there are now other priorities, or so we are told. Amongst them are development and fostering resilience, whatever these…