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Culture & Social Affairs

'The Brutalist': a brutally long film that falls short

Brady Corbet, the director of the award-winning 2024 film The Brutalist, said he faced difficulties when embarking on the project, with producers…

Areej Jamal 20 March , 2025
A Palestinian man hugs the body of a baby following Israeli overnight airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip, at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, on March 20, 2025. BASHAR TALEB / AFP
Politics

Unpacking Netanyahu's predictably self-serving return to war

After a 58-day ceasefire and a halt in military operations between Israel and Hamas, Israel resumed its air strikes at dawn on Tuesday, 18 March,…

Salem Al Rayyes 20 March , 2025
Opinion

Is a European peacekeeping force in Ukraine even feasible?

While US President Donald Trump intensifies his efforts to negotiate an end to the Ukraine conflict, European leaders are being forced to consider…

Con Coughlin 20 March , 2025
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 11, 2025, in New York City. Following the worst day for the markets this year, the Dow was down nearly 500 points in morning trading. Spencer Platt/AFP
Business & Economy

Will Trump use the Federal Reserve as leverage, too?

America's unravelling defence commitments to Europe raise fundamental questions about geopolitical alignments, while US President Donald Trump’s…

Christopher Smart 20 March , 2025
Netanyahu fulfils his promise to resume the war in Gaza
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Netanyahu fulfils his promise to resume the war in Gaza

Fares Garabet 20 March , 2025
Opinion

Syria developments give cause for both optimism and worry

Since an alliance of militias led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) entered Damascus in December to put an end to the rule of the Assad family, analysts…

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 20 March , 2025
A supporter of the Mayor of Istanbul holds a selfie photograph depicting herself and Ekrem Imamoglu during a demonstration against his detention over a corruption probe in Istanbul on March 19, 2025. YASIN AKGUL / AFP
Politics

İmamoğlu detention sends shockwaves through Türkiye

The detention of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, has sent shockwaves through Turkish society. He was snatched from…

Omer Onhon 19 March , 2025
Nadav Weiman Péter Csuth
Politics

Haunting eyes: an Israeli soldier’s moral awakening

Conducting operations in the occupied Palestinian territories as part of an Israeli Special Forces unit, Nadav Weiman knows what it is like to take…

Ahmed Maher 19 March , 2025
US President Donald Trump looks on as military strikes are launched against the Houthis in Yemen in this handout image released on March 15, 2025. Reuters
Politics

Is time really up for the Houthis?

Recent US military strikes on Yemen, accompanied by a warning from President Donald Trump directed at the Houthis that ‘your time is up’ have…

Anwar Al-Ansi 19 March , 2025
Installation view of the ‘Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism' exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London shows Djanira, Three Orishas, 1966, Collection of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry. © Instituto Pintora Djanira
Culture & Social Affairs

London art exhibit sets Brazil as the birthplace of modernism

Brazil is an entire ocean’s length away from Europe—the continent usually associated with modernism. Yet, an exhibition in London’s Royal Academy of…

Farouk Yousif 19 March , 2025
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IRGC soldiers march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran on 22 September, 2018. AFP
Politics

The US-Iran war could empower the IRGC

09 March 2026

When states are attacked, authority gravitates towards institutions capable of mobilising resources, enforcing discipline, and coordinating a military response

Alex Vatanka
A picture of Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, displayed on a screen in Tehran, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, on 9 March 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

Iran’s defiant regime picks a new supreme leader

09 March 2026

The appointment suggests the Revolutionary Guards have the upper hand

The Economist
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian is greeted by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi during the D-8 summit in Cairo, Egypt, on 19 December 2024. AFP
Politics

Egypt fears an unrestrained Israel if Iran collapses

06 March 2026

Cairo and Tehran have been at loggerheads since 1979, but the Iranian threat has always acted as a check on Israeli ambitions. If Iran is completely defeated, Israel will reign supreme.

Amr Emam
A boy plays with his sheep next to an unexploded missile that landed in an open field on the outskirts of Qamishli, eastern Syria, on 5 March 2026. DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP
Business & Economy

Syria may escape war but not its economic fallout

08 March 2026

Even if it stays on the sidelines of the US-Iran war, the country is fragile. Unlike larger economies that can absorb shocks in global markets, it has little room to cushion the impact.

Haid Haid
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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