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LatestMishary Al-Dhaidi in Asharq Al-Awsat: As Happened with "ISIS"...an International Coalition against the Houthis

19 Writers in Two Arabic Papers Took On the Houthis or Hezbollah Since September 16

Their columns, Sept. 16, 2026 to Oct. 20, 2026, quoted in the writer's own Arabic beside an English translation, with a link to each full column.

Writers in all
20
Passages
72
Papers
2
Movements named
7
Weeks
6

The writersThis weekBy movement

The Writers

Reading the portraits. Each writer's byline as the paper prints it, with the Latin spelling beneath. The number is their passages; each tick is one passage in time. Dark portraits: five passages or more; light portraits: two to four.

  1. Most passages · Asharq Al-Awsat مشاري الذايدي Mishary Al-Dhaidi«هذا التعاون بين الحوثي ومن خلفه إيران، وربما قوى شرقية وغربية مثل الصين، مع جماعات "القاعدة"، هو خطر دولي شامل على ملاحة البحر الأحمر والخليج ورأس الرجاء الصالح نفسه، كما هو "كارتيل" إرهابي عالمي متشعب.» Toward an International Alliance against Somalia's "Al-Qaeda" and the Houthis October 2, 2026, Asharq Al-Awsat. Highlighted phrase in the writer's Arabic; headline in machine translation. 18passages
    The Houthis, Jihadist Groups
  2. Asharq Al-Awsat يوسف الديني Yousef Al-Dayni 5passages
    The Houthis, Iran-Backed Militias
  3. Asharq Al-Awsat عبد الرحمن الراشد Abdulrahman Al-Rashed 4passages
    The Houthis, Hezbollah
  4. Asharq Al-Awsat بكر عويضه Bakr Owaida 4passages
    The Houthis, Hamas
  5. Asharq Al-Awsat غسان شربل Ghassan Charbel 4passages
    The Houthis
  6. Asharq Al-Awsat مصطفى فحص Mustafa Fahs 4passages
    Hezbollah, Iran-Backed Militias
  7. Asharq Al-Awsat عبدالله بن بجاد العتيبي Abdulah bin Bijad Al Otaibi 3passages
    The Muslim Brotherhood, Jihadist Groups
  8. Asharq Al-Awsat حنا صالح Hanna Saleh 3passages
    Hezbollah, Iran-Backed Militias
  9. Asharq Al-Awsat محمد الرميحي Mohammed Al-Rumaihi 3passages
    The Houthis, Hezbollah
  10. Asharq Al-Awsat سام منسى Sam Menassa 3passages
    The Houthis, Hezbollah
  11. Asharq Al-Awsat سليمان جودة Suleiman Jawda 3passages
    The Houthis, Iran-Backed Militias
  12. Asharq Al-Awsat د. عبد المنعم سعيد Abdelmoniem Said 2passages
    The Houthis, Hamas
  13. Asharq Al-Awsat أمير طاهري Amir Taheri 2passages
    Political Islam, The Muslim Brotherhood
  14. Asharq Al-Awsat د. جبريل العبيدي Dr. Jebril El-Abidi 2passages
    The Houthis, The Muslim Brotherhood
  15. Asharq Al-Awsat إميل أمين Emile Ameen 2passages
    The Houthis
  16. Asharq Al-Awsat فهد سليمان الشقيران Fahid Suleiman al-Shoqiran 2passages
    The Houthis
  17. Asharq Al-Awsat حازم صاغية Hazem Saghieh 2passages
    The Houthis, Hezbollah
  18. Al-Bayan عماد الدين أديب Imad Eddin Adeeb 2passages
    The Houthis
  19. Asharq Al-Awsat مأمون فندي Mamoun Fandy 2passages
    Political Islam, The Houthis
  20. Asharq Al-Awsat سمير عطا الله Samir Atallah 2passages
    Hezbollah, The Houthis

This Week's Strongest Passages

Week of October 12, 2026. Ranked by a fixed rule: agreement of two classifiers, then evidence, then date. 3 of 7 shown. All 7 on the week page

01عماد الدين أديبImad Eddin Adeeb

Al-Bayan

Between Egypt and the Gulf

For hours social media has been filled with deep and sincere expressions of solidarity from the Egyptian people with their brother the Saudi people following the cowardly, foolish attack carried out by the Houthi terrorist militia on Riyadh airport, which claimed innocent civilian non-combatant victims of various nationalities among the killed and the wounded. There are more than 700,000 Saudi residents in Egypt and every month between 40 to 60,000 visitors and tourists arrive.

English: machine translation of the Arabic passage

ما بين مصر والخليج

منذ ساعات ووسائل التواصل الاجتماعي تمتلئ بمشاعر عميقة وصادقة من تضامن الشعب المصري مع شقيقه الشعب السعودي على أثر الاعتداء الجبان الأحمق الذي قامت به ميليشيا الحوثي الإرهابية على مطار الرياض، والذي راح ضحيته مواطنون أبرياء مدنيون غير مقاتلين من جنسيات مختلفة ما بين قتيل وجريح. هناك أكثر من 700 ألف مقيم سعودي في مصر ويصل إليها كل شهر ما بين 40 إلى 60 ألف زائر وسائح.
02عبد الرحمن الراشدAbdulrahman Al-Rashed

Asharq Al-Awsat

Why Don't We Deal with the Houthis Instead of Fighting Them?

There has previously been engagement with most of those who have ruled Sanaa in the past, regardless of their identity and ideology. This is a realistic proposal. What condemns it is the Houthi project itself. The group is in conflict with the idea of the state, and its behavior has revealed its attachment to the authority of the "organization." The Houthis want to benefit from the state's resources and institutions and from others' recognition of it, while retaining weapons as a group and waging wars according to their external affiliations. From this angle, reaching power becomes a means of empowering the group's project. The events of 2013 and for two consecutive years, provide a clear test for them.

English: machine translation of the Arabic passage

لِمَ لا نتعامل مع الحوثي بدلاً من محاربته؟

فقد سبقَ التعاملُ مع معظم مَنْ حكمَ صنعاءَ في الماضي، بغضِّ النَّظرِ عن هُوِيَّتِه وآيدولوجيتِه. هذَا طرحٌ واقعيٌّ. إنَّمَا يعيبُه هو مشروعُ الحوثي نفسه. فالجماعةُ في صراعٍ مع فكرةِ الدولة، وقد كشفَ سلوكُها عن تمسُّكِها بسلطةِ "التنظيم". يريدُ الحوثيونَ الاستفادةَ من مواردِ الدّولة وأجهزتِها واعترافِ الآخرين بها، مع الاحتفاظِ بالسّلاح كجماعةٍ وشنِّ الحروبِ وَفقَ ارتباطاتِها الخارجية. ومِنْ هذه الزاوية، يصبحُ الوصولُ إلى الحكمِ وسيلةً لتمكينِ مشروعِ الجماعة. وتُقدّمُ أحداثُ 2013 ولعامينِ متتاليينِ، اختباراً واضحاً لهم.
03يوسف الدينيYousef Al-Dayni

Asharq Al-Awsat

Yemenis Are the Biggest Victims of the Houthis

Targeting Saudi airports and civilian facilities, and the killing and wounding of travelers, while pilgrims and civilians were passing through airport terminals, does not merely represent a new round in the trajectory of escalation led by the terrorist Houthi militia, but rather constitutes another chapter in the madness of a renegade group that kidnapped Yemen and brutalized Yemenis and subjected them to the worst suffering, then moved its armed project beyond the borders, until civilian airports, travelers and economic facilities became part of its target bank.

English: machine translation of the Arabic passage

اليمنيون هم أكبر ضحايا الحوثي

استهداف المطارات والمنشآت المدنية السعودية، وسقوط قتلى وجرحى بين المسافرين، فيما كان معتمرون ومدنيون يعبرون صالات المطارات، لا يمثل مجرد جولة جديدة في مسار التصعيد الذي تقوده ميليشيا الحوثي الإرهابية، بل يعد فصلاً آخر في جنون جماعة مارقة اختطفت اليمنَ ونكّلت باليمنيين وسامتهم سوء العذاب، ثم نقلت مشروعها المسلح إلى ما وراء الحدود، حتى باتت المطارات المدنية والمسافرون والمنشآت الاقتصادية جزءاً من بنك أهدافها.

Where They Publish

Papers carrying the passages on this site, by the city on each masthead.

What They Take On

Passages per week by the movement they name. A passage can name more than one.

Passages per movement, by week
MovementAll weeks
The Houthisالحوثيون68781649 by 17 writers
Hezbollahحزب الله2343317 by 9 writers
Iran-Backed Militiasالميليشيات الموالية لإيران2433316 by 12 writers
Political Islamالإسلام السياسي232310 by 6 writers
Jihadist Groupsالجماعات الجهادية22228 by 4 writers
Hamasحماس1135 by 3 writers
The Muslim Brotherhoodالإخوان المسلمون11125 by 4 writers

Columns: weeks beginning Monday, complete weeks only. Empty cell: no passage that week.

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