ع
Sections
  • Politics
  • Culture & Social Affairs
  • Business & Economy
  • Science & Technology
  • Documents & Memoirs
Regions
  • Gulf
  • MENA
  • Europe
  • USA
  • Asia
  • World
More
  • Videos
  • Cartoons
  • World in photos
  • Infographics
  • Profiles
  • Newsletter

LATEST ISSUE

Latest Issue
Magazine Archive
النسخة العربية
  • Politics
  • Culture & Social Affairs
  • Business & Economy
  • Science & Technology
  • Search
Opinion

Neo-Umayyadists need a reality check

After decades of Assad rule by a family closely allied with Iran and belonging to the Alawite (an offshoot of Shiism) sect, a project to reassert…

Houssam Itani 09 May , 2025
People queue with jerry cans to fill up fuel for home electric‬ generators at a petrol station in Libya's capital, Tripoli, on July 4, 2022, amidst a fuel and‬ energy crisis. Mahmud TURKIA / AFP
Politics

Libya is at its lowest point since 2020

Libya is at its lowest point since 2020, when a ceasefire ended the civil war between the UN-recognised government in the west and eastern forces led…

Ben Fishman 09 May , 2025
A large walking excavator works in a quarry for the extraction of rare metals. shutterstock
Business & Economy

China's titanium grip on rare earths puts US on backfoot

After US President Donald Trump imposed 145% tariffs on all imports from China, Beijing retaliated with its own tariff increase and also banned the…

Abdulfattah Khattab 09 May , 2025
Nada Kousa wearing the traditional Lebanese headress the 'tantour' Joe Challita
Culture & Social Affairs

The towering history of the tantour

When Nada Koussa represented Lebanon at the 2024 Miss Universe pageant, her outfit, styled by Lebanese fashion designer Joe Challita, was crowned…

Rosette Fadel 08 May , 2025
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani (C) attends a flag raising ceremony of the new Syrian flag at United Nations Headquarters in New York on April 25, 2025. ANGELA WEISS / AFP
Politics

Why the US should engage with Syria's new government

At the Brussels Conference in March, US Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Levant and Syria engagement in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Natasha…

Radwan Ziadeh 08 May , 2025
Why Libya isn't the right model for Iran’s nuclear climbdown Ewan White
Politics

Why Libya isn't the right model for Iran’s nuclear climbdown

When it comes to dealing with Iran’s nuclear programme, there have been dozens of suggestions over the years. Ideas come and go, in vogue then out of…

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 08 May , 2025
India-Pakistan escalation sparks calls for restraint
Cartoons

India-Pakistan escalation sparks calls for restraint

Fares Garabet 07 May , 2025
Opinion

India-Pakistan escalation raises fears of nuclear conflagration

When two nuclear-armed powers square up to each other as India and Pakistan have done over the disputed territory of Kashmir, the rest of the world…

Con Coughlin 07 May , 2025
Metal debris lies on the ground in Wuyan in south Kashmir's Pulwama district on May 7, 2025. REUTERS/Sharafat Ali
Politics

India strikes Pakistan in 'largest aerial attack in 50 years'

Shortly after midnight on 7 May, exactly two weeks after a terrorist attack in Kashmir, Indian missiles streaked into Pakistan. Pakistan’s army said…

The Economist 07 May , 2025

Gaza starvation, Vietnam War commemoration and papal selection

Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP
Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP

Rahaf Ayyad, a 12-year-old Palestinian who is suffering from malnutrition due to an Israeli-imposed starvation campaign, sits at a school-turned-shelter in al-Rimal in central Gaza City on May 4, 2025.

REUTERS / Darrin Zammit Lupi
REUTERS / Darrin Zammit Lupi

Activists are prevented from approaching the damaged Gaza Freedom Flotilla vessel "Conscience", after Israel bombed it while carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, at sea outside Maltese territorial waters, on May 3, 2025.

MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP
MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP

Soldiers march during a parade marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City on April 30, 2025.

REUTERS / Stoyan Nenov
REUTERS / Stoyan Nenov

Christian pilgrims inspired by the medieval Knights Templar order walk towards St. Peter's Basilica at St. Peter's Square, ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope on May 4, 2025.

REUTERS / Louisa Gouliamaki
REUTERS / Louisa Gouliamaki

People descend the Bramante Staircase at the Vatican Museum during a press tour ahead of the conclave, at the Vatican on May 2, 2025.

OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP
OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP

Russian T-90M tanks drive across Dvortsovaya Square during a rehearsal for Victory Day, where Russia will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany, on May 3, 2025.

CNS / AFP
CNS / AFP

Chinese astronaut Cai Xuzhe sits on a chair as ground crew help remove two more Shenzhou-19 astronauts from their capsule after they landed in China’s Inner Mongolia region on April 30, 2025.

REUTERS / Khalid Abdelaziz
REUTERS / Khalid Abdelaziz

A view shows a large plume of smoke rising from a fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan, on May 6, 2025.

REUTERS / Lesley Martin
REUTERS / Lesley Martin

A person reacts during the Beltane Fire Festival, inspired by ancient Celtic and Pagan May Day rituals celebrating the coming of summer, at Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain, on April 30, 2025.

Arun SANKAR / AFP
Arun SANKAR / AFP

A young Buddhist monk looks on as he walks after reciting morning prayers at the Gyuto Monastery in Dharamsala, India, on May 5, 2025.

  •  Load More
  • Editor's Pick
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

Sign up for our Weekly Newsletter

Get the best of Al Majalla, straight to your inbox.

Your newsletter subscriptions are subject to Al Majalla privacy policy and terms and conditions.

CARTOON

Assad to be tried in absentia

MORE CARTOON
logo
  • Politics
  • Culture & Social Affairs
  • Business & Economy
  • Science & Technology
  • Documents & Memoirs
  • Gulf
  • MENA
  • Europe
  • USA
  • Asia
  • World
  • Videos
  • Cartoons
  • World in photos
  • Infographics
  • Profiles
  • About Al Majalla
  • Al Majalla Team
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact us
logo

© Al Majalla Magazine. All Rights Reserved.

0:00:00
0:00:00