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Diverging US-EU interests under Trump
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Diverging US-EU interests under Trump

Fares Garabet 27 February , 2025
Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa addresses representatives and dignitaries of Syrian communities during the National Dialogue Conference called for by the country's new authorities in Damascus on February 25, 2025. AFP
Politics

I attended Syria's National Dialogue. These are my impressions.

When the world-renowned architect Kenzo Tange designed the Syrian Presidential Palace in 1979—often referred to as the People's Palace—he envisioned…

Sami Moubayed 27 February , 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sign a strategic partnership treaty during a ceremony following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 17, 2025. Evgenia Novozhenina / AFP
Politics

Can Russia truly protect Iran?

Iran and Russia have significantly deepened their strategic ties in recent years, moving beyond a relationship based on convenience to one of direct…

Majid Rafizadeh 26 February , 2025
Former Tunisian Minister of Finance, Siham Al-Boughdiri Namsia, presents the state’s general budget for 2022, Tunisia, December 28, 2021.
 AFP
Business & Economy

Tunisia's 'IMF shadow' disappears with Nemsia's sacking

The standoff between Tunisia’s President Kais Saied and the International Monetary Fund came to a head this month, just days after he sacked his…

Kawthar Zantour 26 February , 2025

Street art, zombie marathons and Ramadan preparations

YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP
YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP

A street performer covered in silver paint takes a break to eat in Jakarta on February 23, 2025.

Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP
Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP

A zombie actor ahead of the Zombie Run Festival, a 5-kilometre-long race where participants must protect three plastic tags attached to their waists from zombies until they reach the finish line, in Jakarta on February 22, 2025.

Mehmet Murat / Getty
Mehmet Murat / Getty

Fatih Municipality teams cleaned the Suleymaniye Mosque as part of the disinfection work carried out before Ramadan in historical mosques in Istanbul, Turkiye, on February 25, 2025.

Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty
Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty

A man sells dates at the market in the Sayyida Zeinab district in preparation for the holy month of Ramadan on February 21, 2025, in Cairo, Egypt. The Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins on February 28.

Roman PILIPEY / AFP
Roman PILIPEY / AFP

Visitors stand next to a makeshift memorial paying tribute to Ukrainian and foreign fighters with flags at the Independence Square in Kyiv on February 23, 2025, ahead of the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP
IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP

Mourners attend the funeral of slain Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine at the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium on the outskirts of Beirut on February 23, 2025.

Simone Risoluti/REUTERS
Simone Risoluti/REUTERS

General view of the mass and ordinations to the diaconate carried out by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, instead of Pope Francis, inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, February 23, 2025.

FETHI BELAID / AFP
FETHI BELAID / AFP

A Ruepell's griffon vulture perches on a branch at a bird sanctuary where it is prepared for release after receiving care by volunteers from Tunisia's Wildlife Association (ATVS) in Sidi Thabet on February 22, 2025.

REUTERS/Spasiyana Sergieva
REUTERS/Spasiyana Sergieva

Children spin rings of fire during rituals in celebration of Mesni Zagovezni, the second Sunday before Great Lent, in Lozen, Bulgaria, February 23, 2025.

Philippe LOPEZ / AFP
Philippe LOPEZ / AFP

"The Egypt of the Pharaohs from Kheops to Ramses II" exhibition at the "Bassin des Lumieres", the largest digital art centre in the world, in Bordeaux, Germany, on February 20, 2025.

Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa addressing representatives and dignitaries of Syrian communities during the National Dialogue Conference called for by the country's new authorities in Damascus on February 25, 2025. AFP
Politics

Syria’s transition takes its first baby step

Syria's national dialogue conference kicked off on Tuesday, 25 February, at the presidential palace in Damascus. It marks the start of a crucial…

Radwan Ziadeh 25 February , 2025
Opinion

Missteps in the making: Syria's National Dialogue risks failure

On 12 February, interim Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa took an initial step toward organising the much-anticipated National Dialogue Conference by…

Haid Haid 24 February , 2025
The dollar still rules the global economy Diana Estefanía Rubio
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The dollar still rules the global economy

Today, the US dollar is the most prominent currency in the world. This is tied to the fact that the US has the largest economy, along with the dollar…

Al Majalla - London 25 February , 2025
Kuwaiti military helicopters perform during an airshow to mark the country's 63rd Independence Day celebrations in Kuwait City on February 26, 2024. YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP
Business & Economy

At 64, Kuwait still faces many of the same challenges

Kuwait celebrates its National Day on the 25th of February every year, coinciding with the anniversary of the accession of the late Abdullah Al-Salim…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 25 February , 2025
Katharine Halls Handout
Culture & Social Affairs

Katharine Halls: AI is diluting literary translations

Katharine Halls is an award-winning translator who brings Arabic books to English audiences. Her work on Ahmed Naji’s prison memoir Rotten Evidence…

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 25 February , 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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