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The lifting of Syria sanctions must be followed by real reforms

President Trump’s surprise decision to lift US sanctions on Syria marks a potentially transformative moment for a country long cut off from the…

Haid Haid 19 May , 2025
Trump's move to lift Syria sanctions begs more questions than answers Al Majalla
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Trump's move to lift Syria sanctions begs more questions than answers

On 13 May 2025, President Donald Trump stunned the world in Riyadh when he announced that the US would lift all sanctions on Syria—a nation reeling…

Matt Zweig 19 May , 2025
Israel's war on Gaza: endless strikes and death
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Israel's war on Gaza: endless strikes and death

Fares Garabet 19 May , 2025
With his Syria gamble, Trump opens a door Lina Jaradat
Politics

With his Syria gamble, Trump opens a door

The meeting in Riyadh of presidents Donald Trump and Ahmed al-Sharaa followed the US leader's announcement that sanctions on Syria would end. These…

Frederic C. Hof 18 May , 2025
Israeli spy Eli Cohen.
Documents & Memoirs

This day in history: Israeli spy Eli Cohen executed in Damascus

On this day in 1965, Israeli spy Eli Cohen was executed by hanging in Marjeh Square in the heart of downtown Damascus. His execution verdict was…

Sami Moubayed 18 May , 2025
Former Libyan foreign minister, Mohammed al-Dairi AFP
Politics

Mohammed al-Dairi: Libyan state-building killed by corruption and division

In 2011, Libyans rose up like others in the region to topple the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who came to power in a coup 42 years earlier, in…

Johaina Khaldieh 17 May , 2025
Tunisian writer Amira Ghenim Franco Origlia/Getty Images
Culture & Social Affairs

Amira Ghenim on reimagining Tunisian history through fiction

Tunisian writer and academic Amira Ghenim’s novel Nazelet Dar Al-Akaber (A Calamity at the House of the Nobles) continues to earn international…

Asmahan Al-Sha’abouni 17 May , 2025
A handout picture provided by the Saudi Royal Palace shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) welcoming US President Donald Trump (L) upon his arrival in Riyadh on May 13, 2025. BANDAR AL-JALOUD / Saudi Royal Palace / AFP
Politics

The strategic rationale for upgraded US-Saudi defence ties

The headlines of multiple economic and business deals from the three stops on US President Donald Trump’s trip to the Middle East in the opening…

Brian Katulis 17 May , 2025
A group photo of the leaders and representatives of the Arab countries participating in the Baghdad Summit on May 17, 2025. Reuters
Politics

Why the Arab world must forge a collective vision of the future

The international system, which has been in flux since the end of the Cold War, appears to be heading in one of two directions: toward a multipolar…

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 17 May , 2025
Opinion

Istanbul meeting inches Ukraine ceasefire forward

This has been a fascinating week in many respects, with high hopes for a Russia-Ukraine deal to end the war, a businesslike and successful official…

Omer Onhon 16 May , 2025
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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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