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Totalitarian states are nothing but shaky edifices. Ask Syria

When Bashar al-Assad disappeared from Syria in early December, so too did all the norms, apparatus, charters, and institutions that made up the …

Rustum Mahmud 05 January , 2025
Kaja Kallas of Estonia has been appointed Europe's foreign policy chief Axel Rangel Garcia
Profiles

Kaja Kallas: Estonian firebrand becomes Europe’s top diplomat

At a time when there is a pressing need for the West to demonstrate more resolve in defending its interests, the appointment of former Estonian Prime…

Con Coughlin 05 January , 2025
Moving from crisis to hope: Egypt’s economy in 2025 Eduardo Ramon
Business & Economy

Moving from crisis to hope: Egypt’s economy in 2025

For Egyptians, 2024 may be remembered for soaring prices and of trying to adapt to the difficult financial and monetary headwinds stoked by the…

Marcelle Nasr 04 January , 2025
Events in Syria and events in Marquez's mythical epic have many parallels Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, the fall of Assad, and the missing chapter

At the end of the 8th episode of the TV series One Hundred Years of Solitude, Úrsula—José Arcadio Buendía's companion in founding and building…

Samer Abou Hawwach 04 January , 2025
Opinion

IS in New Orleans? Trump’s retrenchment may have to hold

Suggestions that the terrorist responsible for New Year attack on New Orleans had links to Islamic State (IS) show that the threat posed by Islamist…

Con Coughlin 03 January , 2025
Opinion

The Arab world’s fortunes will only change when wealth is spread

The year 2025 could be one of maps, given the huge shifts of 2024. Changes were seen not only in terms of territorial gains and losses, but also in…

Houssam Itani 03 January , 2025
ملصق فيلم "أثر الأشباح".
Culture & Social Affairs

Victims become hunters in new film about torture in Syrian prisons

The film Ghost Trail is a thrilling spy movie that provides dramatic insight into one of the biggest global events of the year: the fall of Bashar al…

Areej Jamal 03 January , 2025
Netanyahu may cajole and send his wife, but Trump is no friend Andy Edwards
Politics

Netanyahu may cajole and send his wife, but Trump is no friend

On 2 December 2024, President-elect Donald Trump sat down for dinner with two members of Israel’s Netanyahu family. Neither were Benjamin, Israel’s…

Michael Horowitz 03 January , 2025
The struggle for Syria Aliaa Abou Khaddour
Politics

The struggle for Syria

Bashar al-Assad has been consigned to history, with the Assad family facing the inevitable judgment of time. Though the regime has collapsed, Syria…

Al Majalla - London 02 January , 2025
Opinion

The struggle for Syria from afar and from within

Bashar al-Assad has become a figure of the past, and the Assad family now stands in the court of history. Brutality cannot halt the march of time…

Ibrahim Hamidi 02 January , 2025
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Axel Rangel Garcia
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
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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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