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Marie Le Pen: The French populist sentenced for graft Sara Gironi Carnevale
Profiles

Marie Le Pen: The French populist sentenced for graft

Marine Le Pen, head of France’s National Rally (RN), uttered the word “incredible” as she stormed out of a Paris courtroom on Monday morning. She…

Con Coughlin 05 April , 2025
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Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla's Film Watch

This monthly feature offers an overview of what’s new on the big screen, spanning both mainstream and arthouse films across all genres while also…

Areej Jamal 05 April , 2025
Opinion

Power and monotheism from Rome to the East

In the West, the role of religion in power has evolved over time. From the fall of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire's embrace of…

Houssam Itani 05 April , 2025
Syrian General Husni al-Zaim came to power in a coup d'etat against President Shukri al-Quwatli on 30 March 1948, establishing the first military regime in the Arab world. AFP
Documents & Memoirs

Al-Zaim's 1949 offer to absorb 300,000 Palestinians into Syria

US President Donald Trump’s announcement of his desire to establish a "Middle Eastern Riviera" in Gaza sparked a wave of criticism across the Islamic…

Sami Moubayed 05 April , 2025
Men gesture on the day Israeli Druze leader Sheik Mowafaq Tarif hosts Druze leaders from Syria, in the first Druze delegation since the 1973 war, at the Druze village of Julis in northern Israel, March 14, 2025. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Politics

Israel's risky gamble as "defender" of Syria's minorities

For the first time in decades, Syrian Druze were allowed to enter Israel. Buses made their way to the grave of Sheikh Amin Tarif—the community’s…

Michael Horowitz 05 April , 2025
A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, US, on April 3, 2025. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Business & Economy

Markets greet Trump’s tariffs with a blizzard of red numbers

By nearly every metric—US and global stock and bond markets, the value of the dollar, or the price of oil—investors seem to expect the impact of…

Keith Johnson 04 April , 2025
Are Europe and the US getting divorced? Nathalie Lees
Politics

Are Europe and the US getting divorced?

For more than seven decades, America’s commitment to Europe’s security and its leadership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) have…

Al Majalla - London 04 April , 2025
Are Europe and the US headed for divorce? Pep Boatella
Politics

Are Europe and the US headed for divorce?

In just two months, the new Trump administration has rattled Europe’s sense of security. For decades, amid the Cold War, the 1990s conflicts in the…

Christopher Phillips 04 April , 2025
How might US-Europe divergence impact the Middle East? Sara Padovan
Politics

How might US-Europe divergence impact the Middle East?

The upheaval in US-Europe relations is accelerating changes in the latter's military and economic policies that will begin to affect its relations…

Robert Ford 04 April , 2025
Opinion

What the emerging US–Europe divide means for the Mideast

For over 70 years, the United States’ leading role within NATO—and the alliance’s clear commitment to European security—formed the cornerstone of…

Ibrahim Hamidi 04 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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