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Business & Economy

As PIF juggles investment priorities, Vision 2030 comes first

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is the key financier of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, a national plan that aims to wean the economy off oil, which…

Sharif Mohammad 20 April , 2025
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Profiles

Scott Bessent: US treasury secretary and voice of moderation

Ever since US President Donald Trump decided to implement his controversial reciprocal tariffs policy, the White House has found itself trying to…

Con Coughlin 20 April , 2025
A drone view shows charred vehicles standing in the aftermath of what Al Masirah TV said was a US strike on the Ras Isa fuel port, Al Jazirah, Yemen, in this screengrab from a handout video released on April 18, 2025. REUTERS
Politics

A ground offensive against the Houthis looks imminent

The Trump administration’s expanded military campaign against Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement has sparked intense debate across the globe…

Anwar Al-Ansi 19 April , 2025
Opinion

Syria's 8th Brigade disbands: a blueprint for military consolidation?

The disbanding of Ahmad Al-Awda’s Eighth Brigade on 13 marks a major shift in Syria’s security landscape. It got rid of President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s…

Haid Haid 19 April , 2025
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Culture & Social Affairs

Yolanda Guardi on the sophistication of Mu‘allaqat poetry

To say Yolanda Guardi is familiar the academic rigour is an understatement: she earned degrees from universities in Spain (Anthropology and Arabic…

Youssouf Waqqas 19 April , 2025
The price of Lebanon’s civil war is still being paid Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

The price of Lebanon’s civil war is still being paid

None of the numbers from Lebanon’s civil war make for easy reading: 130,000 dead, a million displaced, 15 years duration, billions of dollars to…

Abdulfattah Khattab 19 April , 2025
US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff (L) and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (R). EVELYN HOCKSTEIN and Amer HILABI / AFP
Politics

What if the US-Iran talks fail?

Offering both carrots and sticks is standard procedure in diplomatic negotiations, but US President Donald Trump takes it to new heights. Whatever…

Arash Azizi 19 April , 2025
A portrait of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hangs during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of Israeli hostages in Tel Aviv on March 29, 2025. Jack GUEZ / AFP
Politics

Netanyahu’s judicial, security, and military coup in Israel

There was a time in the not-too-distant past that Israelis told anyone who would listen that they lived in the only democracy in the Middle East…

Asaad Ghanem 18 April , 2025
Opinion

Lebanon’s civil war: same old same old, only sorry if needed

Few political or military leaders in Lebanon have ever apologised to their compatriots for the atrocities committed during the country’s civil war,…

Houssam Itani 18 April , 2025
Gulf markets index declines, Kuwait City, April 7, 2025 AFP
Business & Economy

Gulf states won't pull US sovereign wealth funds amid market volatility

Gulf states are not looking to pull their sovereign wealth funds and other investments in the United States amid the fallout from US President Donald…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 18 April , 2025
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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

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