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Venezuela's combative President Nicolas Maduro faces the people's votes on Sunday. Eduardo Ramon
Politics

Maduro fights for Chávez legacy in Venezuela’s election

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro is facing a moment of truth as the country votes in what could be a transformative election.He has been in power…

Paul Achkar 28 July , 2024
Singer Celine Dion performing on the Eiffel Tower during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on July 26, 2024.
Culture & Social Affairs

Celine Dion overcomes rain and illness to save Olympics opening

Celine Dion astonished the world at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics, especially those who had watched her recent documentary.This…

Samer Abou Hawwach 28 July , 2024
Indiaís Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) flashes victory sign as he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters to celebrate the partyís win in country's general election, in New Delhi on June 4, 2024 AFP
Politics

India's electoral politics and religious hatred

There are growing concerns in India over deliberate attempts to deepen the polarisation of its politics into the next set of regional elections,…

Shakir Husain 28 July , 2024
Photo of the letter from the foreign ministers of seven European countries to EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell AL MAJALLA
Documents & Memoirs

EXCLUSIVE: European push to end long isolation of Syria’s regime

Several European countries are championing a new diplomatic effort to bring the war in Syria to an end, Al Majalla has learnt.The new peace drive is…

Ibrahim Hamidi 27 July , 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives at the US Capitol on July 24, 2024. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
Politics

Kissing the ring: the delicate politics behind Netanyahu’s US visit

Speeches by Israeli prime ministers in front of the US Congress tend to be celebrations, both of the deep bond between the two nations and of the…

Michael Horowitz 27 July , 2024
Djibouti, which sits in a strategic location opposite Yemen, is home to military naval bases from various countries, including the US and China. Eduardo Ramon
Politics

Djibouti: small coastal state crammed with Red Sea naval bases

Deepening tensions in the Red Sea following Israel’s attack on the Houthi-controlled port of Hodeidah in Yemen have highlighted the growing…

Con Coughlin 27 July , 2024
Martin S Indyk, director of the Saban Centre for Middle East Policy at the Brookings, speaks at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on 19 September 2006. Ken Cedeno/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Politics

How I knew the late US-Middle East envoy Martin Indyk

Over the coming days, many in world media and US public policy circles will write articles and eulogies about Martin Indyk, the former US ambassador…

Bilal Saab 26 July , 2024
Opinion

Israeli PM gets a rough welcome in the US but drops Gaza hints

If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was hoping that his latest visit to Washington would help to revive US support for his military…

Con Coughlin 26 July , 2024
Arabic writers are finally discovering a genre that has been well-loved for centuries
Culture & Social Affairs

How Arab writers are finally embracing the crime fiction genre

Crime and police thrillers have long appealed to both new and established writers. The genre offers a tried-and-tested template into which the author…

Ibrahim Adel 26 July , 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing a joint meeting of Congress at the US Capitol on July 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. Roberto Schmidt / AFP
Politics

Netanyahu belts out all the old tunes but sounds a little off-key

During his 45-minute appearance before a joint session of the US Congress this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an…

Aqeel Abbas 26 July , 2024
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Shaky Israel-Iran ceasefire points to unfinished business

24 June 2025

What Trump has dubbed the '12-Day War' could be just the opening salvo of a much longer conflict

Michael Horowitz
Emergency workers check the damage caused to a building from an Iranian missile strike in Beersheba in southern Israel on June 24, 2025. John Wessels / AFP
Business & Economy

Counting the cost of the Israel-Iran war

24 June 2025

The recent Israel-Iran war is not just a regional flashpoint; it is a mirror reflecting the fragility and interdependence of the modern global economy

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
Lina Jaradat
Politics

Attacks on Iran make a nuclear bomb more likely

20 June 2025

Iran's nuclear programme is damaged, but its determination is heightened

Eric Brewer
Opinion

Israeli and Iranian claims of victory ring hollow

25 June 2025

Netanyahu did not realise his goal of ending Iran's nuclear programme and regime change, and Iran stood alone in its war with Israel, as global and regional allies left it to fend for itself

Houssam Itani
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses Iranians on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (portrait), in Tehran on June 4, 2025. KHAMENEI.IR / AFP
Profiles

Ali Khamenei: the guardian of Iran's strategic patience doctrine

21 June 2025

For decades, Iran's supreme leader—first Khomeini, then Khamenei—pursued a strategy of backing regional militias to fight Israel, but with the 'resistance axis' in tatters, Iran is left to fight alone

Arash Azizi

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