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Lebanon’s stability requires steadier US engagement Lina Jaradat
Politics

Lebanon’s stability requires steadier US engagement

As most eyes stay trained on Iran, another front is presenting a crucial challenge to Middle East regional stability: Israel’s military campaign in…

Brian Katulis 24 March , 2026
Mark Wallace (L), CEO of the non-profit United Against Nuclear Iran, talks with Rep. Mike Lawler (R) (R-NY) next to a Shahed 136 military drone during a press conference on Capitol Hill on 8 May 2025 in Washington, DC. WIN MCNAMEE / AFP
Business & Economy

Iran and the new arithmetic of war

Beneath the daily headlines of strikes and counterstrikes in the Middle East, war is being utterly transformed. In the first week of Tehran’s…

Fareed Zakaria 24 March , 2026
Could the US-Iran war deliver Trump his own ‘Suez’ moment? Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Could the US-Iran war deliver Trump his own ‘Suez’ moment?

Less than a month old, the Iran war has already been talked of as an epochal, transformative moment in world geopolitics. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in…

Christopher Phillips 24 March , 2026
What ads on AI platforms mean for users and firms Sara Padovan
Science & Technology

What ads on AI platforms mean for users and firms

Imagine everything you shared with ChatGPT—whether relating to your health, fears, vulnerabilities, or intimacies—is, in fact, not private. Imagine…

Marco Mossad 24 March , 2026
Hormuz bypasses? Few alternatives, great risks Al Majalla
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Hormuz bypasses? Few alternatives, great risks

Since late February, the Strait of Hormuz—the artery for nearly 20% of global oil and gas flows—has been effectively shut, following Iranian…

Al Majalla - London 24 March , 2026
Opinion

Are the US and Iran fighting their final war?

Wars do not always carry the same meaning. At times, they proclaim power at its height; at others, they mark the first clear sign of its limits…

Ibrahim Hamidi 23 March , 2026
The US-Iran war is mainly good news for Russia Dominic Bugatto
Politics

The US-Iran war is mainly good news for Russia

Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the first Soviet secret police organisation and precursor to the KGB, reportedly once said that “lately, politics…

Anton Mardasov 23 March , 2026
A Palestinian volunteer works to rescue and restore damaged books and manuscripts inside the library of the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza City, on 26 February 2026.
 OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Cultural genocide: Israel's war on Palestinian memory

Throughout its continuing war on Gaza, Israeli forces have waged a parallel and distinct campaign of annihilation against Palestinian culture,…

Atef Abu Seif 23 March , 2026
The US-Iran war puts the entire world at risk
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The US-Iran war puts the entire world at risk

Fares Garabet 22 March , 2026
Opinion

When the cost of inaction is greater than the cost of war

Iran has lost much of its power over the past two years. It has seen the reach of its militia arms across the region diminished, and its military…

Alia Mansour 22 March , 2026
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Business & Economy

How a tiny waterway put the global economy into a chokehold

18 April 2026

Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players

Steve Hewitt
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Glimpses of Bush's Iraq debacle appear in Trump's Iran war

15 April 2026

The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.

Robert Ford
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Business & Economy

The US plan to turn Syria into an oil transit hub

16 April 2026

Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.

Al Majalla - London
An Iranian woman flashes the V-sign as she takes part in a rally to pay tribute to women killed during war, in Tehran on 17 April 2026. AFP
Politics

Has Iran's ideology actually hardened?

16 April 2026

The change in tone and presentation of policy isn't a fundamental redirection, but rather the consolidation of a system under pressure

Alex Vatanka
Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed holds two awards during the opening ceremony of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, late on 14 September 2010. AMR AHMAD / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Daoud Abdel Sayed and the cinema of quiet rebellion

16 April 2026

Throughout his career, the renowned Egyptian film director challenged authority, rejected easy answers, and remained rooted in lived experience

Hazem Massoud

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