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Egypt rejects Gaza administration offer with good reason

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid’s recently dangled carrot appears attractive on the surface: Egypt takes over administrative and security…

Amr Emam 04 March , 2025
Palestinians gather for a communal iftar, or fast-breaking meal, on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, amid building rubble in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 1, 2025. AFP
Politics

Competing visions for a post-war Gaza

In previous Gaza wars, reconstruction often became synonymous with temporary solutions rather than sustainable development. The most basic needs and…

Ahmed Maher 03 March , 2025
Opinion

Should Syria have centralised or decentralised governance?

Following the swift collapse of the Assad regime in December, Syrians are actively debating which governance model the new authorities should adopt…

Haid Haid 03 March , 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, during the G7 Economic Summit, in Brugo Iniasia in Italy, June 14, 2024. Reuters
Business & Economy

Algeria and France unravel their last remaining trade links

A diplomatic crisis between Algeria and France has spilled over into trade and investment, as relations continue to wane. Bilateral economic…

Rabia Abdul Salam 03 March , 2025
Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov, flanked by Palestinian Hamas fighters, smiles after being released along with two others as part of the seventh hostage-prisoner exchange, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, on February 22, 2025. Bashar TALEB / AFP
Politics

Any plan for Gaza must ensure Hamas can't reconstitute

The Israeli military has succeeded in defeating Hamas as a military; decimated Hezbollah’s leadership and destroyed most of its ballistic missiles…

Dennis Ross 03 March , 2025
Trump's fiery 'America First' presidency
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Trump's fiery 'America First' presidency

Fares Garabet 24 February , 2025
The final issue of Algerian French-language daily newspaper "Liberté" is seen at a stand in Algeria's capital Algiers on April 14, 2022. RYAD KRAMDI / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Why some Algerians wish to bid adieu to the French language

“A language is not merely a tool for communication,” wrote Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa in defence of Spanish, in a recent essay. “It is…

Samir Qasimi 02 March , 2025
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Business & Economy

Saudi tourism soars as reforms bear fruit

Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Tourism Ahmed Al-Khateeb has welcomed his country's record 30 million international tourist arrivals last year. More than…

Sharif Mohammad 02 March , 2025
Matthew Zweig, one of the architects of the Caesar Act
Politics

Caesar Act architect: Lifting Syria sanctions is "complicated"

The United States’ Caesar Act was introduced in December 2019 during President Donald Trump’s first term of office. It sanctioned the Syrian…

Ibrahim Hamidi 02 March , 2025
A young Palestinian boy sits on rubble as he attends the Friday noon prayers near the ruins of the al-Faruq mosque, destroyed in Israeli strikes in Rafah, southern Gaza. SAID KHATIB / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

In Gaza, Palestinians observe Ramadan amid grief and ruin

This year, Ramadan in Gaza will be like no other. Even given Gaza’s history of death and destruction, those in the Strip observing the holy month…

Houssam Marouf 01 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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