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Business & Economy

The Crumbling of Global Solidarity

[escenic_image id="5522874"]When Group of 20 leaders met in London in April last year in the teeth of the global economic crisis, they displayed…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 25 June , 2010
Culture & Social Affairs

Inside the Green Revolution

[escenic_image id="5573188"] Death to the Dictator!: Witnessing Iran's Election and the Crippling of the Islamic Republic Afsaneh Moqadam Bodley…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 25 June , 2010
Politics

A Fallen General

[escenic_image id="5572008"]As this article went to press, Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the US forces in Afghanistan was preparing a letter…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 23 June , 2010
Politics

The Struggle Against a Manichaeist World View

[escenic_image id="5571935"]Jeremy Ben-Ami is the founder of J Street, a pro-peace, pro-Israel lobbying group that has positioned itself as a leader…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 23 June , 2010
Politics

Blind Spots to Peace

[escenic_image id="5542814"]Last week, Afghanistan held its first major peace conference. It didn’t start out well. The Taliban fired a couple of…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 22 June , 2010
Politics

J Street vs AIPAC

[escenic_image id="5570318"]In March, when the Israeli government defied US President Barack Obama’s peace efforts by announcing it would build…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 21 June , 2010
Business & Economy

The Quest for Talent

[escenic_image id="5567722"]The Middle East has emerged from the recent global economic crisis in better shape than most other regions. It…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 17 June , 2010
Politics

Change in Kurdistan

[escenic_image id="5567032"]Nawshirwan Mustafa is a prominent Kurdish politician, and currently the leader of Goran, the Movement for Change. The co…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 16 June , 2010
Culture & Social Affairs

Engaging with Peace

[escenic_image id="5566566"] How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace Charles Kupchan Princeton University Press, 2010 Hard…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 15 June , 2010
Politics

Jan Ken Pon

[escenic_image id="5566251"]Unwilling to yield international real estate under the control of the Pentagon, President Barack Obama has just crushed…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 14 June , 2010
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Axel Rangel Garcia
Business & Economy

Test of wills: Iran’s ability to outlast the US blockade

26 April 2026

The standoff in the Hormuz is not simply a question of whether Tehran can survive economic pressure, but whether Washington can sustain the pressure at an acceptable cost.

Alex Vatanka
Al Majalla
Politics

Netanyahu's Iran victory claim falls on deaf ears in Israel

29 April 2026

Many Israelis actually believe that they lost the war, with opposition leader Yair Lapid accusing the Israeli premier of having led the country into "strategic collapse and diplomatic catastrophe"

Asaad Ghanem
Sara Padovan
Science & Technology

Iran’s 'mosquito fleet' presents a pesky problem

28 April 2026

The Strait of Hormuz is now poised to become the primary arena of confrontation, with Iran relying on speedboat-driven guerrilla warfare to confront the US navy.

Marco Mossad
A Syrian army soldier holds a national flag featuring Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in front of a building left in ruins on 5 June 2013 in the city of Qusayr in the Homs province. AFP
Politics

Syria's taswiya slow roll creates a host of problems

28 April 2026

Former regime soldiers are stuck in limbo, as their undocumented status prevents them from working, travelling, and curbs family members' access to education, healthcare and social services

Haid Haid
Culture & Social Affairs

The Arab women raising the bar in travel literature

28 April 2026

In recent years, travel writing has witnessed a striking revival, though along a different path, one now charted by Arab women's voices.

Ibrahim Adel

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