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This time, Trump won’t let Iran run down the clock

The current round of US-Iranian negotiations—the first held in Muscat, and the second to take place in Rome—is markedly different from previous…

Ibrahim Hamidi 15 April , 2025
A boy stands by laundry hanging on lines amidst the rubble of collapsed buildings in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on April 14, 2025. Bashar TALEB / AFP
Politics

The old war is over in Gaza, and a new one is underway

When Israeli jets struck Beit Lahia, Rafah, Nuseirat, and Al-Mawasi last month, killing some 400 Palestinians in the process, the assault seemed like…

David E. Rosenberg 15 April , 2025
Tariffs slow down US auto sector Diana Estefanía Rubio
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Tariffs slow down US auto sector

US President Donald Trump recently said that he is exploring possible temporary exemptions to his tariffs on imported vehicles and parts to give auto…

Al Majalla - London 15 April , 2025
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Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla's Book Watch

The Arab world has a vibrant and rich literary scene. Al Majalla picks out some choice titles in our fortnightly round-up of the latest Arabic books,…

Khodr Al Agha 15 April , 2025
Opinion

Iran is cornered, but is it ready to concede?

The current US–Iranian negotiations underway in Oman are markedly different from those held a decade earlier under US President Barack Obama, even…

Alia Mansour 14 April , 2025
A 'Riviera' filled with Gaza's blood
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A 'Riviera' filled with Gaza's blood

Fares Garabet 14 April , 2025
Leaked exchanges 'Signal' the importance of the Red Sea Al Majalla
Politics

Leaked exchanges 'Signal' the importance of the Red Sea

When a small group of very senior American defence, intelligence, and diplomatic officials mistakenly added a journalist to a classified discussion…

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb 14 April , 2025
Syrian-Palestinian painter Hani Abbas AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

The cartoonists who satirised Assad's oppressive regime

From the early 1980s, the political role of newspapers in Syria began to diminish as the media became a heavily censored tool used by the former…

Nawwar Jabbour 14 April , 2025
People hold signs as they participate in a protest in support of Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil while a hearing takes place outside the court in Newark, New Jersey, on March 28, 2025. Kena Betancur / AFP
Politics

Trump wants to deport foreign students for what they say

“Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa.” That is how Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, last month described the Trump…

The Economist 14 April , 2025
A sign on a building slide with a silhouette depicting US president-elect Donald Trump that reads, "Climate crisis won't stop for a climate denier" on November 18, 2024, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. LUIS ROBAYO / AFP
Business & Economy

Has Trump’s second term killed off ESG?

In 2014, entrepreneur Elon Musk told an audience at the Oil and Gas Summit in Norway that the world needed to move away from their products quicker,…

Nazareth Seferian 03 April , 2025
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Politics

A Houthi takeover of Bab al-Mandab cannot be tolerated

12 September 2026

The Iran-backed group's effective takeover of Yemen's western coast comes with serious regional and global implications. The world needs to act.

Alice Gower
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Inside Assad’s nuclear secrets

09 September 2026

Al Majalla reveals the structure of Syria's nuclear programme 19 years after Israel bombed the Al-Kibar reactor, detailing the involvement of other states and the assassinations that followed

Al Majalla - London
Underwater image of a diver among fish at the North Seymour Island dive site in the Galapagos archipelago, Ecuador, taken on 8 March 2024. ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP
Business & Economy

The global race for rare earths reaches the ocean floor

07 September 2026

A critical mineral found on Japan's seabed has caught US attention, and the two are teaming up to see whether it can yield future benefits and reduce their dependence on China

Abdulfattah Khattab
Al Majalla/Reuters
Politics

The murky origins of al-Qaeda explained

09 September 2026

Thousands of Muslim volunteers flocked to Afghanistan in 1979 to fight the Soviets in response to a rallying cry, aided by the largest covert operation in CIA history

Steve Hewitt
Susan Sarandon in Echo Chamber ANDREA MICONI
Culture & Social Affairs

Susan Sarandon on fear, freedom, and refusing to change

08 September 2026

The renowned American actress tells Al Majalla about her gnawing drive for justice at the Venice Film Festival, where her new film 'Echo Chamber' premiered

Leila Amar

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