Al Arabiya

Al Arabiya is a Saudi-owned pan-Arab television news network, with this English service serving international audiences. Headquartered in Dubai, it covers Middle Eastern and global politics, business, and current affairs. As a Saudi-funded outlet, its coverage is generally seen as reflecting perspectives aligned with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states.

Visit english.alarabiya.net ↗Compare across Saudi Arabia

Al Arabiya at a glance

Country: Saudi Arabia
Region: The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula · Middle East and North Africa
Kind of outlet: Television news channel
Editorial leaning: Centrist
Website: english.alarabiya.net ↗
Preview: Renders inside Crosswire's comparison panes (last checked 2026-10-12).

The preview status comes from the weekly audit that requests every outlet through Crosswire's own edge — see how the fetcher identifies itself.

Al Arabiya front page, right now

Open a live, light-mode preview of Al Arabiya's homepage. Use the language selector in the header to translate the preview into your language.

Load Al Arabiya's live homepage here, or open the publisher directly.

Open publisher ↗

How Crosswire groups Al Arabiya

Crosswire groups Al Arabiya as Centrist for comparisons within Saudi Arabia's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate.

Compare Al Arabiya with another outlet from Saudi Arabia covering the same event and edition. Record the headline, publication time, named sources and links to original evidence. Similar leaning labels can still produce different coverage; a different label does not guarantee an independent source. Check the articles before interpreting a front-page difference as bias.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings. This profile does not include an individual assessment citation. Page updated 2026-09-28; this is a content-change date, not a fresh fact-check of the outlet. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

Where Al Arabiya sits in Saudi Arabia's press

Al Arabiya is one of 5 outlets tracked in Saudi Arabia and the only television news channel tracked there. By outlets tracked, Saudi Arabia ranks 11th of the 20 countries on Crosswire's Middle East and North Africa hub, which lists 99 outlets in all.

Across the Middle East and North Africa, Crosswire tracks 11 of the 66 television news channels in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Al Arabiya outside Saudi Arabia, starting with The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, are Syria TV (Syria), LBCI (Lebanon), Roya News English (Jordan) and Press TV (Iran). Opening one of them beside Al Arabiya is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.