About Oz Arab Media

Oz Arab Media

Overview

Oz Arab Media is an Arabic- and English-language online news platform based in Bankstown, in the Canterbury-Bankstown area of south-western Sydney, publishing news for Australia's Arabic-speaking communities. Operating from the website ozarab.media, it covers Arab news, Australian news and international news in both Arabic and English, and it also operates an online radio service, Oz Arab Radio. Bankstown and the surrounding Canterbury-Bankstown area form one of the historic centres of Arabic-speaking settlement in Australia, and the platform is embedded in that community's institutional life to an unusual degree, as the partnerships recorded below show.

The platform describes itself in its own press-release boilerplate as a leading Arabic ethnic online news platform. That wording is the outlet's own description of itself and is recorded here as such; no independent ranking of Australian Arabic-language media exists against which to test it. Independent traces of the outlet are nonetheless substantial: its activities have been documented in its own syndicated press releases since 2022, in community-organisation announcements, and in journalist directories that carry its bylines into 2026.

Oz Arab Media is one of the younger outlets in Sydney's long-established Arabic media scene, which includes newspapers dating back decades. Library catalogue records of New South Wales non-English-language newspapers list Oz Arab Media of Bankstown with publication dates from 2021, making it a recent, digital-native entrant alongside the older print titles.

History

No founding announcement or formal launch date for Oz Arab Media is published on any source consulted for this profile, and no exact founding year is asserted here. The earliest firm dating evidence is the New South Wales library catalogue record, which lists the outlet's publication dates as beginning in 2021. The outlet's own documented public activity begins in 2022, when it started issuing press releases through the EIN Presswire syndication service, and those releases trace its establishment phase in detail.

The founders are a matter of record: a press release issued with the Lions Club of Canterbury Bankstown names Remy Wehbe and Charbel Tadros as the founders of Oz Arab Media. Wehbe is described as a co-founder and director of the outlet, and is also styled General Manager of the Oz Arab Media Group. Tadros serves as the outlet's Media Manager and is the named media contact on its press releases; he is also President of the AIM Association, a community business association with which the outlet is closely connected.

During 2022 the young platform built a network of formal community partnerships at a notable pace. It partnered with the Lebanese Film Festival Australia, with a partnership release dated 16 July 2022 issued from Bankstown; it entered a partnership with the Australia Arab Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AACCI); it signed a memorandum of understanding with The Salvation Army at Bankstown on 27 June 2022; and it partnered with the Lions Club of Canterbury Bankstown. In December 2022 it announced a news-exchange agreement with Alarabiya, the international Arabic news channel, through Middle East News FZ-LLC, part of the MBC Group — an agreement under which the Sydney platform exchanges news content with one of the largest Arabic-language broadcasters in the world.

On 19 May 2023 the organisation held its inaugural Gala Dinner, combined with the AIM Business Awards. The event was attended by Jihad Dib MP, the New South Wales Premier Chris Minns sent a video message, and the then state Opposition Leader Mark Speakman spoke — a level of political attendance that documents the platform's established position in its community within roughly two years of its catalogue start date. In September 2023 it announced a partnership with the Bankstown Basketball Association (the Bruins), announced on 20 September 2023, in releases that also reference its Oz Arab Radio service.

Content and Coverage

Oz Arab Media publishes news in two languages, Arabic and English, across three broad fields: news of the Arab world, Australian news, and international news, with the Australian coverage weighted towards the Arabic-speaking community's own life — community organisations, religious and cultural events, local business, sport and the activities of community institutions in south-western Sydney and beyond.

The outlet's own releases from 2022 state that it also publishes a weekly issue, indicating a periodic compiled edition alongside its rolling online news service. Its journalism is bylined: journalist-directory records carry stories under the names of Charbel Tadros and Zaid A. Siddiqui, among others, with recent bylined coverage including the opening of the Glass House venue at Bankstown RSL on 13 August 2026 — the kind of local, community-facing reporting that forms the platform's staple content.

Beyond text news, the organisation operates Oz Arab Radio, an online radio service referenced in its partnership announcements, and it publishes daily video headlines: its YouTube channel carried an "October 17 Headlines" bulletin uploaded on or about 16–17 October 2026, the days on which this profile was researched — direct evidence of the platform publishing on a daily cycle at that date.

Audience and Reach

The platform's audience is Australia's Arabic-speaking population, concentrated in Sydney — above all in the Canterbury-Bankstown and Fairfield-Liverpool districts of the south-west — together with Arabic-speaking communities in other Australian cities and a diaspora readership following Australian Arab community news from overseas. The bilingual Arabic-English format addresses both first-generation readers who prefer Arabic and younger, Australian-born readers who work mainly in English.

No independently audited audience figures for Oz Arab Media exist, and none are asserted here. The one reach figure in the public record is the outlet's own: its December 2022 Alarabiya agreement release claimed a "reach of at least 1.5 million per month on Facebook alone". That figure is Oz Arab Media's own claim, made in its own press release in December 2022, and it is reported in this profile strictly on that basis; no third-party measurement has been published to verify it.

The outlet's standing in its community is better evidenced by institutional recognition than by numbers. Journalist-directory records note that Oz Arab Media was recognised at a Community Recognition Event hosted by Mark Coure MP, the member for Oatley in the New South Wales Parliament — external acknowledgment of the platform's role in covering and serving its community.

Digital Presence

The platform's home is its website, ozarab.media, which carries its Arabic and English news services and gives access to Oz Arab Radio. It maintains an active social and video presence, including the daily headlines bulletins published to YouTube, and its journalists' work is indexed by the Muck Rack journalist directory, where bylines for the outlet run through August 2026.

A verification note is warranted. When this profile was researched in October 2026, the outlet's own domain, ozarab.media, could not be fetched directly by the research tools used — the domain was blocked to the automated fetcher — so this profile is built from the outlet's syndicated press releases, community partners' announcements, library catalogue records, journalist directories and its video channel, rather than from a direct read of the site. Those independent sources agree with each other and establish current operation clearly, but a visual check of the live website at the time of publication is recommended to confirm the site's current presentation and service details.

Ownership and Organisation

Oz Arab Media is an independent community media operation based in Bankstown, Sydney. Its founders, named in its Lions Club of Canterbury Bankstown partnership release, are Remy Wehbe and Charbel Tadros. Wehbe serves as co-founder and director, and is also styled General Manager of the Oz Arab Media Group — the "Group" styling reflecting the combination of the news platform and Oz Arab Radio under one operation. Tadros is the outlet's Media Manager and its public contact for media matters, and concurrently serves as President of the AIM Association.

No parent company, external investor, media-group ownership or sale is documented in any source consulted, and none is asserted here: on the available record the platform is founder-run. Its organisation is characterised by the depth of its formal ties to community institutions — partnership or memorandum arrangements with the Lebanese Film Festival Australia, the Australia Arab Chamber of Commerce and Industry, The Salvation Army Bankstown, the Lions Club of Canterbury Bankstown and the Bankstown Basketball Association, and a content-exchange agreement with Alarabiya — which function as both its newsgathering network and its distribution channel into the community it serves.

Contact and Availability

Oz Arab Media's news services are freely available online at ozarab.media, in Arabic and English, with its daily video headlines published on its YouTube channel and Oz Arab Radio accessible through its digital platforms. No subscription or registration is required to read its news coverage.

The outlet's published media contact is Charbel Tadros, Media Manager, who is the named contact on its press releases, on +61 481 330 490, with the published contact email info@ozarab.media. Its operations are based in Bankstown, New South Wales, in south-western Sydney; no street address for the outlet is published in the sources consulted, and none is given here. Because these contact details rest on the outlet's press releases from 2022–23, they should be re-confirmed against the live website before this listing is published.