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US President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it during an indoor inauguration parade on January 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president. Christopher Furlong / AFP
Business & Economy

How to read Trump’s day-one trade actions

In US President Donald Trump’s avalanche of day-one executive orders, he did not drop the gauntlet on the start of the next trade war, much to the…

Keith Johnson 22 January , 2025
US President Donald Trump delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States inside the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. Shawn Thew / AFP
Politics

The new American imperialism

The traditional point of an inaugural address is to transcend the politics of the campaign and draw the country together. Donald Trump’s second…

The Economist 21 January , 2025
US director David Lynch poses after receiving a lifetime achievement award during the 12th Rome Film Festival on November 4, 2017, in Rome. TIZIANA FABI / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Farewell, David Lynch: A tribute to cinema’s last great surrealist

Just days after devastating fires swept through homes and film studios in Los Angeles, Hollywood suffered another blow with the passing of one of its…

Areej Jamal 21 January , 2025
Turkish strikes on October 5 on the Kurdish-controlled region of Hasakeh in northeastern Syria hit a car, killing two people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. AFP
Politics

Stakeholders vie for oil and gas control in a post-Assad Syria

Countless unknown factors make it impossible to predict how developments will unfold in post-Bashar al-Assad Syria. With the new government not…

Giorgio Cafiero 21 January , 2025
Opinion

Trump will contend with a much-changed Middle East

President Donald Trump will soon find out that the Middle East he knew in his first term has profoundly changed: Hamas launched a deadly attack on…

Ibrahim Hamidi 21 January , 2025
Syria's oil and gas comes with strategic potential Diana Estefanía Rubio
Infographics

Syria's oil and gas comes with strategic potential

Syria has the potential to significantly increase its oil and natural gas production, which can provide energy and government revenue critical to the…

Al Majalla - London 21 January , 2025
Tunisia may need an economic miracle in 2025
Business & Economy

Tunisia may need an economic miracle in 2025

In December 2024, two announcements from or about Tunisia seemed to sum up its financial and security challenges for the year ahead.The first was the…

Kawthar Zantour 20 January , 2025
Opinion

Syria's central bank needs true reform, not cosmetic change

The Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-appointed caretaker body, made history on 30 December by appointing Dr Maysa Sabirin as the first female governor of…

Haid Haid 20 January , 2025
Donald Trump: From the 45th US president to the 47th
Cartoons

Donald Trump: From the 45th US president to the 47th

Fares Garabet 20 January , 2025
A freed Palestinian prisoner gestures after being released from an Israeli jail as part of a hostage swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Ramallah,  in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Politics

Israel opens Schrödinger’s box as Gaza ceasefire takes hold

In the 15 months since the beginning of the war, Israelis have felt uncertain as to a number of critical issues: Whether hostages they hoped to see…

Michael Horowitz 19 January , 2025
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Business & Economy

Test of wills: Iran’s ability to outlast the US blockade

26 April 2026

The standoff in the Hormuz is not simply a question of whether Tehran can survive economic pressure, but whether Washington can sustain the pressure at an acceptable cost.

Alex Vatanka
Al Majalla
Politics

Netanyahu's Iran victory claim falls on deaf ears in Israel

29 April 2026

Many Israelis actually believe that they lost the war, with opposition leader Yair Lapid accusing the Israeli premier of having led the country into "strategic collapse and diplomatic catastrophe"

Asaad Ghanem
Sara Padovan
Science & Technology

Iran’s 'mosquito fleet' presents a pesky problem

28 April 2026

The Strait of Hormuz is now poised to become the primary arena of confrontation, with Iran relying on speedboat-driven guerrilla warfare to confront the US navy.

Marco Mossad
A Syrian army soldier holds a national flag featuring Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in front of a building left in ruins on 5 June 2013 in the city of Qusayr in the Homs province. AFP
Politics

Syria's taswiya slow roll creates a host of problems

28 April 2026

Former regime soldiers are stuck in limbo, as their undocumented status prevents them from working, travelling, and curbs family members' access to education, healthcare and social services

Haid Haid
Culture & Social Affairs

The Arab women raising the bar in travel literature

28 April 2026

In recent years, travel writing has witnessed a striking revival, though along a different path, one now charted by Arab women's voices.

Ibrahim Adel

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