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This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's new Minister of Social Affairs and Labour Minister Hind Kabawat during an official ceremony in Damascus on March 29, 2025. AFP
Politics

Rejection and red flags: Syria's new government off to shaky start

Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa last week announced a new transitional government, nearly four months after he toppled the Assad regime. The…

Haid Haid 07 April , 2025
Will Trump back down from a global trade war? Brian Stauffer
Business & Economy

Will Trump back down from a global trade war?

As comedian Oliver Hardy might have said to US President Donald Trump about his tariffs, “Here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten us into.” On the…

Bob Davis 07 April , 2025
Women as symbols of popular culture on Arab stamps
Culture & Social Affairs

Women as symbols of popular culture on Arab stamps

Huda Taleb Siraj could be said to be following in the lickmarks of her father, Shafiq Taleb—one of the most prominent stamp collectors in Lebanon and…

Rosette Fadel 07 April , 2025
Trump "considering" third presidential term
Cartoons

Trump "considering" third presidential term

Fares Garabet 07 April , 2025
Palestinian journalists lift placards during a rally in Gaza City protesting the killing of fellow reporters Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour in Israeli strikes a day earlier, at the al-Ahli Arab hospital on March 25, 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA/ AFP
Politics

War in Gaza the ‘worst ever conflict for reporters’

The war in Gaza that began after the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack on Israel has killed more journalists than the US Civil War, World Wars I and…

John Haltiwanger 06 April , 2025
Marie Le Pen: The French populist sentenced for graft Sara Gironi Carnevale
Profiles

Marie Le Pen: The French populist sentenced for graft

Marine Le Pen, head of France’s National Rally (RN), uttered the word “incredible” as she stormed out of a Paris courtroom on Monday morning. She…

Con Coughlin 05 April , 2025
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Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla's Film Watch

This monthly feature offers an overview of what’s new on the big screen, spanning both mainstream and arthouse films across all genres while also…

Areej Jamal 05 April , 2025
Opinion

Power and monotheism from Rome to the East

In the West, the role of religion in power has evolved over time. From the fall of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire's embrace of…

Houssam Itani 05 April , 2025
Syrian General Husni al-Zaim came to power in a coup d'etat against President Shukri al-Quwatli on 30 March 1948, establishing the first military regime in the Arab world. AFP
Documents & Memoirs

Al-Zaim's 1949 offer to absorb 300,000 Palestinians into Syria

US President Donald Trump’s announcement of his desire to establish a "Middle Eastern Riviera" in Gaza sparked a wave of criticism across the Islamic…

Sami Moubayed 05 April , 2025
Men gesture on the day Israeli Druze leader Sheik Mowafaq Tarif hosts Druze leaders from Syria, in the first Druze delegation since the 1973 war, at the Druze village of Julis in northern Israel, March 14, 2025. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Politics

Israel's risky gamble as "defender" of Syria's minorities

For the first time in decades, Syrian Druze were allowed to enter Israel. Buses made their way to the grave of Sheikh Amin Tarif—the community’s…

Michael Horowitz 05 April , 2025
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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

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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
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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
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Türkiye fears spillover effects of US-Iran war

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

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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
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Ramadan in Gaza: food scarcity compounds suffering

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

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