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Is it too late to 'Make America Great'?
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Is it too late to 'Make America Great'?

Fares Garabet 21 April , 2025
As PIF juggles investment priorities, Vision 2030 comes first shutterstock
Business & Economy

As PIF juggles investment priorities, Vision 2030 comes first

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is the key financier of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, a national plan that aims to wean the economy off oil, which…

Sharif Mohammad 20 April , 2025
Scott Bessent: US treasury secretary and voice of moderation Al Majalla
Profiles

Scott Bessent: US treasury secretary and voice of moderation

Ever since US President Donald Trump decided to implement his controversial reciprocal tariffs policy, the White House has found itself trying to…

Con Coughlin 20 April , 2025
A drone view shows charred vehicles standing in the aftermath of what Al Masirah TV said was a US strike on the Ras Isa fuel port, Al Jazirah, Yemen, in this screengrab from a handout video released on April 18, 2025. REUTERS
Politics

A ground offensive against the Houthis looks imminent

The Trump administration’s expanded military campaign against Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement has sparked intense debate across the globe…

Anwar Al-Ansi 19 April , 2025
Opinion

Syria's 8th Brigade disbands: a blueprint for military consolidation?

The disbanding of Ahmad Al-Awda’s Eighth Brigade on 13 marks a major shift in Syria’s security landscape. It got rid of President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s…

Haid Haid 19 April , 2025
Italian scholar Yolanda Guardi Handout
Culture & Social Affairs

Yolanda Guardi on the sophistication of Mu‘allaqat poetry

To say Yolanda Guardi is familiar the academic rigour is an understatement: she earned degrees from universities in Spain (Anthropology and Arabic…

Youssouf Waqqas 19 April , 2025
The price of Lebanon’s civil war is still being paid Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

The price of Lebanon’s civil war is still being paid

None of the numbers from Lebanon’s civil war make for easy reading: 130,000 dead, a million displaced, 15 years duration, billions of dollars to…

Abdulfattah Khattab 19 April , 2025
US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff (L) and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (R). EVELYN HOCKSTEIN and Amer HILABI / AFP
Politics

What if the US-Iran talks fail?

Offering both carrots and sticks is standard procedure in diplomatic negotiations, but US President Donald Trump takes it to new heights. Whatever…

Arash Azizi 19 April , 2025
A portrait of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hangs during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of Israeli hostages in Tel Aviv on March 29, 2025. Jack GUEZ / AFP
Politics

Netanyahu’s judicial, security, and military coup in Israel

There was a time in the not-too-distant past that Israelis told anyone who would listen that they lived in the only democracy in the Middle East…

Asaad Ghanem 18 April , 2025
Opinion

Lebanon’s civil war: same old same old, only sorry if needed

Few political or military leaders in Lebanon have ever apologised to their compatriots for the atrocities committed during the country’s civil war,…

Houssam Itani 18 April , 2025
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After Khamenei: will the Islamic Republic survive?

06 March 2026

Al Majalla examines what his killing means for Iran, its proxies, and the greater region

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Business & Economy

US-Iran war: aviation industry hits turbulence

05 March 2026

Gulf states' central global location has made it the perfect transit hub for global travel, but with flights cancelled due to war, the industry is scrambling to fill the void

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
An Iranian military truck carries surface-to-air missiles past a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a parade on the occasion of the country's annual army day on 18 April 2018, in Tehran. ATTA KENARE / AFP
Politics

In US-Iran war, willpower could trump firepower

06 March 2026

Washington and Tel Aviv may think the key to ending Iran's regime is to kill its missile bank and capabilities, but sometimes strategy matters more than hardware

Bilal Saab
Iranian nationals arrive in Turkey after passing through the Razi-Kapiköy border crossing in Van, north-eastern Türkiye, on 3 March 2026. ALI IHSAN OZTURK / AFP
Politics

Türkiye fears spillover effects of US-Iran war

05 March 2026

Ankara fears a refugee influx, economic disruption, and a Kurdish dimension as the US and Israel escalate their attacks

Omer Onhon
The displaced Palestinian Abu Mustafa family sits together as they break the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast during Iftar in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 26 February 2026. Photo by EYAD BABA / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Ramadan in Gaza: food scarcity compounds suffering

03 March 2026

The iftar table, if it still exists, no longer represents joy, but anxiety and scarcity

Hala Al-Naji

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