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Palestinians at the funeral of a victim of Israeli bombing in Khan Yunis in Gaza on 16 July 2024 Bashar Taleb/AFP
Politics

New Gaza Nakba deepens Palestinian divisions and differences

A new nakba (catastrophe) is unfolding in a war of extermination that Israel has been waging against Palestinians for nearly ten months.This conflict…

Majed Kayali 17 July , 2024
Opinion

The politics of education in Lebanon

A few days ago, Samir Geagea, the leader of the Lebanese Forces party, issued a demand on social media, aimed at the country’s education minister…

Alia Mansour 16 July , 2024
Republican 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face after being shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He survived with only light injuries to his ear. Rebecca Droke/AFP
Politics

Trump shooting just the latest in a 160-year American tradition

Throughout history, from emperors to popes, kings to presidents, the bearers of high office have discovered its dark side: the ever-present threat of…

Con Coughlin 16 July , 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) in 2023. Russia has been mediating between Turkey and Syria. Mikhail Klimentyev/Reuters
Politics

First signs of a thaw? Russia nudges Erdoğan and Assad closer

There may be reason to believe that one of the Middle East's iciest relationships may be showing the first signs of a thaw.If the signs are to be…

Omer Onhon 16 July , 2024
Dutch author Jaap Robben, who writes for children and adults, has just penned arguably his most poignant work yet. Charlie DeKeersemaecker
Culture & Social Affairs

Jaap Robben’s depiction of suppressed grief reveals why the fight for equality is not over

The acclaimed Dutch author Jaap Robben was nominated for the international Booker Prize for Summer Brother and its depiction of how innocence is lost…

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 16 July , 2024
Beji Caid Essebsi of Tunisia was president until the ripe old age of 93. AFP
Politics

Senior statesmen: the Arab world’s octogenarian presidents

US President Joe Biden’s advanced age and its apparent effect on him have raised eyebrows on the presidential election campaign trail, after several…

Sami Moubayed 16 July , 2024
Coal remains the largest source of pollution in the world Diana Estefanía Rubio
Infographics

Coal remains the largest source of pollution in the world

Global primary energy consumption reached a new record of 620 exajoules (EJ) for the second consecutive year in 2023, up from 607 exajoules in 2022…

Al Majalla - London 15 July , 2024
Cookies. Pizza. Cake. All are delicious but can also contain a toxic ingredient that kills almost 300,000 people from coronary heart disease each year: industrially produced trans fat. Shutterstock
Science & Technology

The battle to get rid of trans fats...forever

Cookies. Pizza. Cake. All are delicious – but potentially deadly. In addition to their often high sugar, salt, or fat content, these foods can also…

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Tom Frieden 15 July , 2024
President John F. Kennedy waves from his car in a motorcade approximately one minute before he was shot on November 22, 1963, in Dallas. AP
Documents & Memoirs

America's long history of presidential assassinations and attempts

This weekend’s assassination attempt against former US president Donald Trump failed, with minimal injury. While it is not the first time that a US…

Sami Moubayed 14 July , 2024
Trump assassination attempt
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Trump assassination attempt

Fares Garabet 14 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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