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Could China gatecrash the US-Gulf AI wedding? Jason Lyon
Science & Technology

Could China gatecrash the US-Gulf AI wedding?

US President Donald Trump’s visit to the Gulf in May and the vast, trillion-dollar deals agreed there marked a defining moment in the global AI …

Shirley Ze Yu 09 August , 2025
Opinion

Hezbollah's arms and the rejection of the Lebanese state

The increasingly pressing question of Hezbollah’s armed status is now formally on the agenda of Lebanon’s Council of Ministers, after US and Israeli…

Houssam Itani 09 August , 2025
The foreign ministers of the Confederation of Sahel States attend a press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on April 3, 2025. Pavel Bednyakov / AFP
Politics

Why Russia is doubling down on diplomacy in the Sahel

Russia has held high-level talks with officials in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso as it seeks to protect its influence in the Sahel from renewed…

Sergey Eledinov 09 August , 2025
"King Lear" brings Yehia El Fakharany back to the stage
Culture & Social Affairs

'King Lear' brings Yehia El-Fakharani back to the stage

Three years ago, during a symposium titled The Director and the Theatrical Text at Egypt’s National Theatre Festival, director Shadi Sorour spoke…

Wael Said 09 August , 2025
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) on the sidelines of the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 19, 2023. Turkish Presidency Press Office / AFP
Politics

Israel and Türkiye must clarify their red lines on Syria

The collapse of the Assad regime has reshaped the regional landscape. But while there is a broad international consensus in support of Syria's new…

Michael Harari 08 August , 2025
Trump's new tariff wave: winners and losers Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

Trump's new tariff wave: winners and losers

After months of threats and negotiations, US President Donald Trump’s revised tariff regime has officially come into effect. With rates ranging from…

Mohamed Sharki 08 August , 2025
Opinion

Trump-Putin meeting gives Ukraine truce talks new lease of life

The announcement that US President Donald Trump is planning to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, next week is the clearest indication yet…

Con Coughlin 07 August , 2025
Hidaya, a 31-year-old Palestinian mother, carries her sick 18-month-old son Mohammed al-Mutawaq, who is also displaying signs of malnutrition, inside their tent at the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 24, 2025. Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

The culmination of policy: Israel’s use of starvation in Gaza

In 1922, a year before his death, author Franz Kafka published his now-famous story A Hunger Artist. It tells of a man who makes a spectacle of his…

Hala Al-Naji 07 August , 2025
An Iraqi man and children hold Iranian flags as people march during celebrations to mark the ceasefire between Israel and Iran in the southern city of Basra on June 24, 2025. HUSSEIN FALEH / AFP
Politics

Iraq's US-Iran balancing act faces crunch time

During the 12-day war in June between Israel and the United States against Iran, banners appeared in Baghdad proclaiming: “This is the battle of…

Ayad Al-Anbar 07 August , 2025
Solar-powered lights on a mountain road in Lebanon.
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Business & Economy

Powering the periphery: how renewables are reshaping rural development in the Arab world

The energy sector across the Arab world is often associated with mega projects led by Gulf countries, such as the world’s largest green hydrogen…

Jessica Obeid 07 August , 2025
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Pep Boatella
Politics

Al-Jawf: the key to defeating the Houthis

05, Nov 2026

The battle for this strategically important and resource-rich province tests the Yemeni army's ability to tilt the military balance in its favour

Al Majalla - London
Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al-Saud, Pakistan's army chief General Syed Asim Munir, and Turkey's intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin in Tehran on 26 October 2026. IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP
Politics

Pakistan’s balancing act in a fragmenting world

07, Nov 2026

Staying friends with the Turks, Chinese, Russians, Americans, Europeans, Iranians and Saudis simultaneously is a big ask for Islamabad's diplomats, but somehow they are managing it

Kaswar Klasra
Politics

Can the Democrats prevent a new round of war with Iran?

05, Nov 2026

Despite the war's unpopularity, Trump seems determined to press on until he can claim a decisive victory, whether by diplomacy, force, or a combination of the two

Aqeel Abbas
Eduardo Ramon
Profiles

Abdul El-Sayed: the progressive Michigander who beat the pro-Israel lobby

07, Aug 2026

The Egyptian-American epidemiologist became the first Muslim senator in US history, despite $70mn spent to defeat him in the Democratic primary

Tarek Rashed
French author Philippe Djianada looks out from a window at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, following his win of the French Goncourt literary prize for his novel "The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel," on 3 November 2026. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Culture & Social Affairs

A novel about a murder in Paris wins the 2026 Goncourt

06, Nov 2026

French novelist Philippe Jaenada's novel 'The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel' wins big, while the Prix Renaudot goes to François-Henri Désérable for his novel about an unlikely wine expert

Najeeb Mubarak

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