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| footnotes = }}The New Arab or Al-Araby Al-Jadeed () is a London-based pan-Arab news outlet owned by Qatari company Fadaat Media. It launched an Arabic-language website in March 2014NEWS, www.alaraby.co.uk – Independent Journalism for a New Arab world,pressat.co.uk/releases/wwwalarabycouk-independent-journalism-for-a-new-arab-world-47fdc413c4df2756911e2c82bbc5276c/, 30 March 2014, 5 December 2023, and an Arabic language daily newspaper in September 2014. The English version of its website is The New Arab.In 2015, Fadaat launched Al Araby TV Network as a counterweight to Al Jazeera and its perceived bias.WEB, Rebecca Hawkes, 26 January 2015, Qatar’s latest channel Al Araby launches from London,www.rapidtvnews.com/2015012636944/qatar-s-latest-channel-al-araby-launches-from-london.html, Rapid TV News,

History

Amid tensions between Qatari emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and the director of Al Jazeera, Tamim launched Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, headed by the emir’s closest advisor Azmi Bishara. According to Professor Lina Khatib, Al-Jazeera’s association with the Muslim Brotherhood and its reputation as a mouthpiece for the Syrian revolution had hurt the channel’s credibility. With the launch, Tamim was seeking to establish a voice independent of his parents.JOURNAL, Khatib, Lina, Qatar and the Recalibration of Power in the Gulf, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2014-09-01,www.jstor.org/stable/resrep12983, 28 March 2024, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed was officially launched in March 2014 as a new media project funded by Qatari private holding company Fadaat Media. It launched Arabic-language website Al-Araby Al-Jadeed in March 2014 and an Arabic language daily newspaper with the same name in September 2014. It also has an English website known as The New Arab.NEWS, Kilani, Feras, 2014-11-28, Qatar’s Al-Araby Al-Jadeed: Will new media venture silence suspicions?, en-GB, BBC News,www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30141659, 2022-06-26, Dr. Azmi Bishara, a Palestinian Christian based in Doha and an ex-member of the Israeli Knesset, runs Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.WEB, New Arabic daily newspaper launches,the-media-network.com/new-arabic-daily-newspaper-launches/, The Media Network: Middle East, September 4, 2014, March 4, 2018, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed now operates globally, with more than 150 staff in three offices, based in Beirut, Doha and London.WEB,www.pressgazette.co.uk/saudi-arabia-and-other-arab-states-block-london-based-pro-democracy-news-website/, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt block London-based pro democracy news website, Dominic, Ponsford, 6 January 2016, Journalists for Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, including Bishara, were targeted by hackers affiliated with Project Raven, a UAE initiative to target the mobile phones of media figures the UAE believed were supported by Qatar.NEWS, Schectman, Joel, Special Report: U.S. hackers helped UAE spy on Al Jazeera chairman, BBC host,www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-raven-media-specialreport-idUSKCN1RD2PY/, 28 November 2023, Reuters, 2019-04-01,

Editorial position

Bishara described the outlet as “relatively independent” in the context of the Arab world. According to Bishara, “Sometimes the newspaper might be sensitive about what not to say, because you are not there to provoke the people that finance you.” According to Professor Lina Khatib, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed is meant to be a rival to pro-Muslim Brotherhood Al Jazeera as a major outlet for the Qatari state’s views.Since 2013, many Egyptian journalists have taken employment at Arab media outlets such as Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, funded by Qatar and critical of the Egyptian government.WEB, Hamzawy, Amr, Egypt’s Political Exiles: Going Anywhere but Home,carnegieendowment.org/2019/03/29/egypt-s-political-exiles-going-anywhere-but-home-pub-78728, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 28 March 2024, 2019-03-29, Amidst the controversy after Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion during the Israel–Hamas war, The New Arab presented a nuanced version of the events on its English-language website, while the Arabic-language website blamed Israel and denounced President Joe Biden for adopting the Israeli narrative.NEWS, Pacchiani, Gianluca, Arab press largely unswayed by Israeli evidence terror rocket caused hospital blast,www.timesofisrael.com/arab-press-largely-unswayed-by-israeli-clarifications-about-gaza-hospital-blast/, 28 November 2023, Times of Israel, 2023-10-18,

Ownership and finances

The outlet is owned by Qatar-based Fadaat Media Ltd. Abdulrahman Elshayyal is the newspaper’s CEO.WEB,www.galileefoundation.org.uk/who-we-are/trustees-patrons-and-staff/abdulrahman-elshayyal/, Abdulrahman Elshayyal, Galilee Foundation, March 4, 2018, WEB,www.fadaatmedia.com/index.html, Fadaat, Fadaat Media, 2 November 2019, Fadaat Media is an Arab media investment company.NEWS,www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2015/10/2/fadaat-media-breaks-silence-over-reported-al-jazeera-job-losses, Fadaat Media breaks silence over reported al-Jazeera job losses, Alaraby, 1 October 2015, 2 November 2019, WEB,inpublic.globenewswire.com/2014/04/01/Fadaat+Media+Ltd+www+alaraby+co+uk+Independent+Journalism+for+a+New+Arab+world+HUG1773096.html;jsessionid=RTWpT67DJGLvRnwVZJLYYWw2WJhnp9vCZLJs237QMj6yZpGLqp9Q!-1082031361, Fadaat Media Ltd: www.alaraby.co.uk - Independent Journalism for a New Arab world., GlobeNewswire, 2 November 2019,inpublic.globenewswire.com/2014/04/01/Fadaat+Media+Ltd+www+alaraby+co+uk+Independent+Journalism+for+a+New+Arab+world+HUG1773096.html;jsessionid=RTWpT67DJGLvRnwVZJLYYWw2WJhnp9vCZLJs237QMj6yZpGLqp9Q!-1082031361," title="web.archive.org/web/20181211010103inpublic.globenewswire.com/2014/04/01/Fadaat+Media+Ltd+www+alaraby+co+uk+Independent+Journalism+for+a+New+Arab+world+HUG1773096.html;jsessionid=RTWpT67DJGLvRnwVZJLYYWw2WJhnp9vCZLJs237QMj6yZpGLqp9Q!-1082031361,">web.archive.org/web/20181211010103inpublic.globenewswire.com/2014/04/01/Fadaat+Media+Ltd+www+alaraby+co+uk+Independent+Journalism+for+a+New+Arab+world+HUG1773096.html;jsessionid=RTWpT67DJGLvRnwVZJLYYWw2WJhnp9vCZLJs237QMj6yZpGLqp9Q!-1082031361, 11 December 2018, Sumaya, Mustafa,

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