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Employees count bundles of Yemeni Riyal banknotes at the Central Bank of Yemen in Sanaa on January 7, 2020. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
Politics

Politicising Yemen’s currency: new Houthi notes part of a pattern

Barely a day goes by without Yemen’s Houthi group being in the news. Earlier this month, it attacked and sank two sea-going vessels. Then a naval…

Anwar Al-Ansi 26 July , 2025
a mural depicting Lebanese Druze politician Walid Jumblatt (bottom, R) and Syrian Druze nationalist leader Sultan al-Atrash, in the predominantly Druze city of Beit Jann on November 16, 2023. John MacDougall/AFP
Politics

Druze political figures who transformed Syrian history

Upon entering Damascus following its liberation from Ottoman rule in 1918, Emir Faisal Ibn al-Hussein announced that appointments to government…

Sami Moubayed 25 July , 2025
Iran's economic hopes are closely aligned to its political decisions. Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

Iran’s economic potential still relies on reform and stability

During the 12-day war with Israel in June, Iran’s military and nuclear infrastructure suffered damage that is likely to cost billions of dollars to…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 25 July , 2025
Opinion

If Israel defends minorities, why is it annihilating its own?

While Israel has been bombing Syria under the pretext of protecting Syria’s Druze minority, it has been simultaneously engaged in genocide in Gaza…

Houssam Itani 25 July , 2025
The president and the pillars of the global order Fares Garabet
Cartoons

The president and the pillars of the global order

Fares Garabet 24 July , 2025
Saudi writers are once again interested in the nomadic way of life and how that conflicts with life in an urban environment. Lina Jaradat
Culture & Social Affairs

Between nomadism and urban life in new Saudi novels

Since the dawn of humanity, the arts have been inseparably woven into the fabric of human existence. In literature, specific genres have been…

Ibrahim Adel 24 July , 2025
Opinion

Thou shalt not cross: Trump listens to Wall Street on the Fed

It is a short walk from the White House to the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. at the intersection of Constitution Avenue and 20th Street. Yet…

Khaled Kassar 24 July , 2025
Israel's Ministry of Finance estimated that the state's recent war costs stood at $31bn by the end of 2024, and could rise to $70bn by the end of 2025. Sebastien Thibault
Business & Economy

War is draining Israel’s economy… but the stock market is booming

Following the 12-day war between Israel and Iran—which ended with direct US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, a halt to hostilities, and the…

Souraya Chahine 24 July , 2025
Unravelling the factions, sheikhs, and fighters of Sweida Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Unravelling the factions, sheikhs, and fighters of Sweida

Sweida in southern Syria dominated world headlines this month for good reason. With more than 1,000 people killed in a little over a week, the…

Subhi Franjieh 24 July , 2025
A member of Syrian security forces stands near a vehicle carrying aid as they make their way to Sweida, at Bosra al-Sham town, near Deraa, Syria July 23, 2025. Karam al-Masri/Reuters
Politics

After Sweida: the path to peace just got more complicated

The violence in Sweida over recent days has illustrated not only Syria’s deep complexity but also the need for patience and prudent policymaking to…

Michael Harari 24 July , 2025
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Eduardo Ramon
Politics

Trump has lost the Iran war, but how badly?

20 April 2026

While all the effects of this conflict may take time to fully realise, short and medium-term signs expose the limits of US power and see America's rivals benefiting

Christopher Phillips
Jason Lyon
Business & Economy

The Iran war is reshaping the China-Gulf economic model

21 April 2026

Closing the Strait of Hormuz has shown how the Gulf should shift from an oil-export model to a digital and distribution hub. Will this trigger the long-delayed free trade agreement with China?

Charbel Barakat
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Lebanon and Israel: negotiations and the end of Hezbollah

23 April 2026

Building on the ten-day ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump, time will tell if these talks are a one-off or the beginning of a different path for Lebanon.

Al Majalla - London
Grace Russell
Science & Technology

Saving the soldiers: robots as Ukraine’s new weapon

22 April 2026

The war in Ukraine is becoming an open laboratory for testing advanced military technologies that may yet redefine the very meaning of combat

Marco Mossad
Nesma Moharam
Culture & Social Affairs

New book tackles the fading art of Koranic recitation

20 April 2026

Egyptian heritage researcher Haytham Abu Zayd sheds light on how the art form grew, excelled, and then declined over the years and ends by offering a path to revival

Fadi El-Abdallah

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