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Aljaweea covers civil aviation, military aviation, space and the lifestyle around them, in English and Arabic, every day. If your organisation has news for the sector — a route launch, a fleet order, a delivery, a contract, a mission, an appointment, a result — our newsroom wants to see it.
This page explains how to send us a press release, what to include so we can act on it quickly, and how to reach the desk.
Reach the press desk
Send press releases and media enquiries to [email protected]. The address reaches our newsroom.
One thing first, in fairness to you. Sending us a release is not a guarantee of coverage. We read what arrives, but what we publish, and how, is decided by our editors on news judgement alone. We take no payment for editorial coverage, and a press release earns no claim on our pages. If you want to advertise or sponsor content, that is a separate conversation — see Advertise with us.
How to send a release
Email it to the press address above. Put the full text of the release in the body of the email, not only as an attachment — it is faster for an editor to scan, and it survives if an attachment fails. Attach or link any supporting material separately.
A few practical notes:
Send the news, not a teaser. A one-line “are you interested?” slows everyone down. Give us the story and let us judge it.
Make the subject line do work. A clear, specific subject reaches the right editor faster than “Press release attached”.
Write in English or Arabic. We work in both. Send whichever you have; you need not translate before you reach us.
Name a contact who can answer. A release we cannot follow up on is a release we may have to set aside.
What to include
The releases we can act on quickest answer the basics and hand us what we would otherwise have to chase. Useful items:
Checklist
The news, up top. Who, what, when, where, and why it matters — in the headline and the first paragraph, not the fourth.
Dates and figures that check out. Order numbers, delivery dates, values, capacities, registrations. Be specific; we verify before we publish.
A named spokesperson and a quote you are happy to see in print, plus whether an interview is possible.
Contact details that work — a name, a working email, and a phone number for the day of the announcement.
Assets, where you have them. High-resolution photographs, a logo, fact sheets, data, or a link to a press kit. Tell us the credit line and any usage limits. For large files, send a link rather than a heavy attachment.
We cannot guarantee that we will use any particular asset, and we caption and credit images to our own editorial standards.
What we cover
Aljaweea reports four areas:
Civil aviation
Airlines, airports, manufacturers, regulators, routes, fleets, the passenger business.
Military aviation
Defence aviation, procurement, programmes and operations, reported to our editorial standards.
Space exploration
Launches, missions, satellites, the space economy and the agencies behind it.
Lifestyle
The culture, travel and experience around flight.
Our centre of gravity is the Middle East and North Africa, with the Gulf at its core, and an eye on the wider world where it touches the region. A release with a clear MENA angle, or a global story that matters to a MENA reader, fits us best. If your news sits well outside these areas, we are likely not the right home for it.
Embargoes
If your release is under embargo, mark the embargo date, time and time zone clearly at the top of the release and in the email subject line, and send it to the press address. We will consider reasonable embargoes on newsworthy material, but please treat an embargo as a request until we confirm we will hold to it. We do not operate a separate embargo desk or hotline.
For other matters
This is the right channel for releases, media requests and interview enquiries.
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/* Aljaweea newsletter form (form 10): on Arabic pages, pre-select the Arabic edition.
2 Nov 2026 (Claude, runbook 8.82). Decision D-05 asks for the page language to be pre-selected through
the WPML translation of the field's default value; WPML does not offer that value for translation,
so this is the flagged fallback. The stored values stay "English" / "العربية" for the FluentCRM tag routing.
Rollback: set this snippet to Draft (the Arabic page then pre-selects English). */
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/* Aljaweea forms: let Fluent Forms show its own error messages.
2 Nov 2026 (Claude, runbook 8.86; finding V-1 of the 8.85 test). Without this, the browser's own email check
stops the form when an address has no "@" and shows the browser's pop-up in the browser's language (English on
Arabic pages for most visitors), so our message from the forms standard (1.4) never appears.
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Rollback: set this snippet to Draft. */
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