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The price of Lebanon’s civil war is still being paid Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

The price of Lebanon’s civil war is still being paid

None of the numbers from Lebanon’s civil war make for easy reading: 130,000 dead, a million displaced, 15 years duration, billions of dollars to…

Abdulfattah Khattab 19 April , 2025
US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff (L) and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (R). EVELYN HOCKSTEIN and Amer HILABI / AFP
Politics

What if the US-Iran talks fail?

Offering both carrots and sticks is standard procedure in diplomatic negotiations, but US President Donald Trump takes it to new heights. Whatever…

Arash Azizi 19 April , 2025
A portrait of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hangs during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of Israeli hostages in Tel Aviv on March 29, 2025. Jack GUEZ / AFP
Politics

Netanyahu’s judicial, security, and military coup in Israel

There was a time in the not-too-distant past that Israelis told anyone who would listen that they lived in the only democracy in the Middle East…

Asaad Ghanem 18 April , 2025
Opinion

Lebanon’s civil war: same old same old, only sorry if needed

Few political or military leaders in Lebanon have ever apologised to their compatriots for the atrocities committed during the country’s civil war,…

Houssam Itani 18 April , 2025
Gulf markets index declines, Kuwait City, April 7, 2025 AFP
Business & Economy

Gulf states won't pull US sovereign wealth funds amid market volatility

Gulf states are not looking to pull their sovereign wealth funds and other investments in the United States amid the fallout from US President Donald…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 18 April , 2025
US President Donald Trump meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, April 17, 2025. REUTERS / Evelyn Hockstein
Politics

Can "Trump whisperer" Meloni help repair US-EU relations?

At a moment when the transatlantic partnership between the US and Europe has been severely disrupted by US President Donald Trump’s tariff policy,…

Con Coughlin 17 April , 2025
The Saudi Film Festival saudi film festival
Culture & Social Affairs

Saudi Film Festival 2025 focuses on the cinema of identity

Since its launch in 2008, the Saudi Film Festival has helped shape an Arab cinematic landscape driven by aspiration. What began as a modest yet far…

Noor Hisham Alsaif 17 April , 2025
The Tompkins Square Park riot in New York City on January 13, 1874, was a clash between the city's police department and thousands of unemployed workers during the economic depression following the Panic of 1873.  Alamy
Documents & Memoirs

The awful history of tariffs and depressions

It is rare that we can watch the unfolding of a global economic downturn with such precision as we can today. With a 145% US tariff on China and a…

 Scott Reynolds Nelson 17 April , 2025
Members of Syria's security forces stand guard during the funeral of three people killed in Israeli strikes a day earlier, in the southern town of Daraa on March 18, 2025. Bakr ALKASEM / AFP
Politics

The 8th Brigade agrees to dissolve in boost for Damascus

A key week in Syria’s south, which began with protests, clashes, and an assassination, ended with the Daraa-based 8th Brigade finally agreeing to…

Abbas Sharifa 17 April , 2025
Chinese economy better positioned to handle trade war
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Chinese economy better positioned to handle trade war

Fares Garabet 17 April , 2025
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Pep Boatella
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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