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If Picasso were to paint Gaza Fares Garabet
Cartoons

If Picasso were to paint Gaza

Fares Garabet 09 June , 2025
From Tokyo to Tampa: the rise and rise of Asim Munir
Profiles

From Tokyo to Tampa: the rise and rise of Asim Munir

A few weeks ago, the world briefly turned its attention to a conflict other than Gaza or Ukraine. Whenever India and Pakistan face-off, the spectre…

Kamal Alam 08 June , 2025
Opinion

EU sanctions put Syrian leadership’s promises to the test

Hopeful that recovery may finally be within reach, Syrians are still celebrating the US and EU announcements about lifting all sanctions, but the…

Haid Haid 08 June , 2025
Opinion

RIP: the outdated export of revolution in the Middle East

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s recent declaration that the era of “exporting revolution” was over provoked an outcry from Iran’s allies in…

Houssam Itani 07 June , 2025
Troops from the US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS) training SDF fighters in Syria's north-eastern Hasakah province on 7 September 2022. Delil Souleiman/AFP
Politics

Exit signs: America’s full withdrawal from Syria seems imminent

This week, US officials confirmed that 500 American military personnel have been withdrawn from their posts in Syria, six months after the fall of…

Caroline Rose 07 June , 2025
Opinion

‘Children fighting in a park’ with drones and long-range bombers

Any lingering hopes US President Donald Trump may have entertained of bringing the Ukraine war to an early conclusion will have been dispelled by his…

Con Coughlin 06 June , 2025
The 90-day trade truce is seen in Beijing as but a brief pause to recalibrate strategy in a longer-term Cold War-style rivalry. Ewan White
Business & Economy

US–China trade truce is a pause for breath in a new Cold War

After weeks of tit-for-tat tariff escalation that sent shockwaves through global markets, US and Chinese negotiators emerged from a Geneva conference…

Shirley Ze Yu 06 June , 2025
In October 1936, the French government and the Syrian National Bloc signed the Franco-Syrian Treaty of Alliance, giving independence to Syria. Two months earlier, a Zionist delegation was given short shrift by the Bloc. Getty Images
Documents & Memoirs

‘You may leave’: a 1936 meeting between Syrian and Zionist leaders

In early March 1936, a delegation from the National Bloc party travelled to Paris to negotiate the future of Syria. A coalition of parties hostile to…

Sami Moubayed 06 June , 2025
Lady Evelyn Cobbold, a Scottish aristocrat who converted to Islam and performed the Hajj in 1933, becoming the first British Muslim woman to do so. Getty Images
Culture & Social Affairs

The Orientalists who entered Mecca in disguise

Mecca, this sacred city that draws the hearts of Muslims from every corner of the globe, where souls yearn to visit the House of God and…

Abdullah Al-Rashid 06 June , 2025
Arms outstretched where once artillery did the talking Fares Garabet
Cartoons

Arms outstretched where once artillery did the talking

Fares Garabet 05 June , 2025
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Iran’s waning influence

27 June 2025

Our July issue features in-depth articles and expert analyses exploring the future of Iran's influence and the long-term reverberations for the region

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Lina Jaradat
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Gaza’s ‘death trap’ aid centres: a real-life Hunger Games

02 July 2025

Israel's commandeering of aid distribution in Gaza forces starving Palestinians to run the gauntlet at centres with biometric monitoring systems, armed security, and life-or-death hazards

Hala Al-Naji
People gather to celebrate after Lebanese parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun as the new president, on January 9, 2025, in Al-Aaishiyah, Lebanon. Ramiz Dallah/Getty
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Lebanon’s second chance at statehood

02 July 2025

The crippling of Hezbollah's dominance and the Assad regime's fall in Syria have created a narrow but historic opening for the Lebanese people

Paul Salem
Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

Oman is quietly redefining its development model

29 June 2025

It is no longer the Gulf's quiet outlier but a country quietly setting a new standard for sustainable economic development in the region

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How the Middle East can capitalise on Iran’s regional setback

02 July 2025

The US security umbrella will focus on Iran's direct threats, but regional states should deal with Tehran's residual proxy groups in the region

James Jeffrey

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