I tried newspaper 0.0.6 with a bunch of Arabic websites and it didn't seem to fetch any articles.
In [38]: newspaper.version.version_info
Out[38]: (0, 0, 6)
In [39]: alarabiya = newspaper.build('http://www.alarabiya.net/', language='ar')
In [40]: tahrirnews = newspaper.build('http://tahrirnews.com/', language='ar')
In [41]: ahram = newspaper.build('http://www.ahram.org.eg/', language='ar')
In [42]: almasryalyoum = newspaper.build('http://www.almasryalyoum.com/', language='ar')
In [43]: for src in (alarabiya, tahrirnews, ahram, almasryalyoum):
....: print(src.size())
....:
0
0
0
0
I tried newspaper 0.0.6 with a bunch of Arabic websites and it didn't seem to fetch any articles.