These journalists are going to be in sooooooo much trouble for doing this…

If The Onion and The Huffington Post had a baby in the Middle East, it would probably look like Free Arabs. The online magazine is a feisty mix of news, analysis, satire, comedy, and sheer indignation about what’s going on in the Arab world today. It’s a refreshing take on what we in the West…

If The Onion and The Huffington Post had a baby in the Middle East, it would probably look like Free Arabs. The online magazine is a feisty mix of news, analysis, satire, comedy, and sheer indignation about what’s going on in the Arab world today. It’s a refreshing take on what we in the West normally see on the news. Check out some of the latest stories below and stand by to be surprised.


Check out the babies in burkas debate. Seriously!

Thanks, Free Arabs, for sharing this gem of a story:

The “Harlem Shake” dance phenomenon has reached the shores of Tunisia. Students around the country are filming their own versions, despite (or maybe because of) angry backlash from the Islamists.

The satire is irresistible. Bill Maher you’ve met your match!

Culture

Mom explains the eye-opening reason people stop to thank her for having eight children

Culture

In 1887, a photographer captured America’s stunning Western frontier and Native Americans

Nature

Florida dumped half a million oyster shells into the Gulf of Mexico. No one expected the results to be this good.

Culture

1989 ‘Donahue’ interview with female cast of ‘Steel Magnolias’ shows how far we’ve come