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Mar 2024
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Special Announcement

The New Arab
About this episode

This week, we’ll be launching The New Arab Weekly, a brand new podcast, that will bring you a collection of biggest stories of the week. 


With help from the editorial and reporting teams at The New Arab in London, we’ll break down the stories for you and answer the questions: what happened and why does it matter?


The first episode will be released on Friday March 15th, and will be finding its way to your feeds every Friday after that. 


Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast, so you can get notified when a new episode drops. 


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We’d also like to hear from you. If you have any questions that you want the team at The New Arab to answer, you can now email us at podcast@newarab.com. 


Until Friday, stick with The New Arab, for all the latest new analysis and opinion, from the region. 



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