{{Short description|Pan-Arab media outlet headquartered in London}} {{Italic title}} {{EngvarB|date=June 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox company | name = The New Arab / Al-Araby Al-Jadeed | logo = The_New_Arab.png | image = The New Arab front page 7 April 2025.png | image_alt = Front page of The New Arab newspaper | image_caption = ''Al-Araby Al-Jadeed'' print edition on 7 April 2025 | native_name = العربي الجديد | native_name_lang = ar | type = Private company | foundation = {{start date and age|df=yes|2014|3}} | founder = Azmi Bishara | hq_location = London, United Kingdom | owner = Fadaat Media | industry = News media | products = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | num_employees = | subsid = | homepage = {{Official URL}} (English)<br />{{URL|https://www.alaraby.co.uk/|}} (Arabic) | footnotes = }}
'''''Al-Araby Al-Jadeed''''' ({{langx|ar|العربي الجديد}}) is a London-based pan-Arab news outlet owned by Qatari company Fadaat Media. It launched an Arabic-language website in March 2014<ref>{{cite news |title=www.alaraby.co.uk – Independent Journalism for a New Arab world |url=https://pressat.co.uk/releases/wwwalarabycouk-independent-journalism-for-a-new-arab-world-47fdc413c4df2756911e2c82bbc5276c/ |date=30 March 2014 |access-date=5 December 2023 |archive-date=5 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205124753/https://pressat.co.uk/releases/wwwalarabycouk-independent-journalism-for-a-new-arab-world-47fdc413c4df2756911e2c82bbc5276c/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and an Arabic language daily newspaper in September 2014. The English version of its website is known as '''''The New Arab'''''.
In 2015, Fadaat launched Al Araby Television Network as a counterweight to Al Jazeera and its perceived bias.<ref>{{cite web |author=Rebecca Hawkes |date=26 January 2015 |title=Qatar's latest channel Al Araby launches from London |url=http://www.rapidtvnews.com/2015012636944/qatar-s-latest-channel-al-araby-launches-from-london.html |publisher=Rapid TV News |access-date=1 October 2016 |archive-date=6 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206171153/https://www.rapidtvnews.com/2015012636944/qatar-s-latest-channel-al-araby-launches-from-london.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==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.<ref name="Carnegie" >{{cite journal |last1=Khatib |first1=Lina |title=Qatar and the Recalibration of Power in the Gulf |journal=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |date=2014-09-01 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep12983 |access-date=28 March 2024 |archive-date=28 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240328065212/https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep12983 |url-status=live }}</ref>
''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''.<ref name= "BBC">{{Cite news |last=Kilani |first=Feras |date=2014-11-28 |title=Qatar's Al-Araby Al-Jadeed: Will new media venture silence suspicions? |language=en-GB |publisher=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30141659 |access-date=2022-06-26 |archive-date=26 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626181432/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30141659 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Dr. Azmi Bishara, a Palestinian Christian based in Doha and an ex-member of the Israeli Knesset, runs ''Al-Araby Al-Jadeed''.<ref name= "BBC" /><ref name="Media Network">{{cite web | title=New Arabic daily newspaper launches | url=http://the-media-network.com/new-arabic-daily-newspaper-launches/ | publisher=The Media Network: Middle East | date=September 4, 2014 | access-date=March 4, 2018 | archive-date=19 June 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619165150/http://the-media-network.com/new-arabic-daily-newspaper-launches/ | url-status=live }}</ref> ''Al-Araby Al-Jadeed'' now operates globally, with more than 150 staff in three offices, based in Beirut, Doha and London.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/saudi-arabia-and-other-arab-states-block-london-based-pro-democracy-news-website/|title=Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt block London-based pro democracy news website|last=Dominic|first=Ponsford|date=6 January 2016|access-date=10 December 2018|archive-date=3 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221103170220/https://pressgazette.co.uk/saudi-arabia-and-other-arab-states-block-london-based-pro-democracy-news-website/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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.<ref name="Reuters">{{cite news |last1=Schectman |first1=Joel |title=Special Report: U.S. hackers helped UAE spy on Al Jazeera chairman, BBC host |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-raven-media-specialreport-idUSKCN1RD2PY/ |access-date=28 November 2023 |work=Reuters |date=2019-04-01 |archive-date=24 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224154226/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-raven-media-specialreport-idUSKCN1RD2PY |url-status=live }}</ref>
==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."<ref name="Reuters" /> 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.<ref name="Carnegie" />
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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hamzawy |first1=Amr |title=Egypt's Political Exiles: Going Anywhere but Home |url=https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2019/03/egypts-political-exiles-going-anywhere-but-home?lang=en |publisher=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |access-date=28 March 2024 |date=2019-03-29}}</ref>
Amidst the controversy after the al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion during the Gaza war, ''The New Arab''{{'}}s Arabic-language edition blamed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and denounced then-U.S. president Joe Biden for endorsing IDF's claim that the blast was caused by a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pacchiani |first1=Gianluca |title=Arab press largely unswayed by Israeli evidence terror rocket caused hospital blast |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-press-largely-unswayed-by-israeli-clarifications-about-gaza-hospital-blast/ |access-date=28 November 2023 |work=Times of Israel |date=2023-10-18 |archive-date=24 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231024011259/https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-press-largely-unswayed-by-israeli-clarifications-about-gaza-hospital-blast/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Ownership and finances== The outlet is owned by Qatar-based Fadaat Media Ltd. Abdulrahman Elshayyal is the newspaper's CEO.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.galileefoundation.org.uk/who-we-are/trustees-patrons-and-staff/abdulrahman-elshayyal/ |title=Abdulrahman Elshayyal |work=Galilee Foundation |access-date=March 4, 2018 |archive-date=13 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413162205/http://www.galileefoundation.org.uk/who-we-are/trustees-patrons-and-staff/abdulrahman-elshayyal/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fadaatmedia.com/index.html |title=Fadaat |work=Fadaat Media |access-date=2 November 2019 |archive-date=29 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529033715/https://www.fadaatmedia.com/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Fadaat Media is an Arab media investment company.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2015/10/2/fadaat-media-breaks-silence-over-reported-al-jazeera-job-losses |title=Fadaat Media breaks silence over reported al-Jazeera job losses |work=Alaraby |date=1 October 2015 |access-date=2 November 2019 |archive-date=28 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228083729/https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2015/10/2/fadaat-media-breaks-silence-over-reported-al-jazeera-job-losses |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |url=http://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=Fadaat Media Ltd: www.alaraby.co.uk - Independent Journalism for a New Arab world. |work=GlobeNewswire |access-date=2 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211010103/http://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 |archive-date=11 December 2018 |first=Sumaya |last=Mustafa}}</ref>
==See also== * Al-Monitor * Asharq Al-Awsat * Middle East Eye * Middle East Monitor ==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== *{{Official website}}
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