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Palestinian journalists lift placards during a rally in Gaza City protesting the killing of fellow reporters Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour in Israeli strikes a day earlier, at the al-Ahli Arab hospital on March 25, 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA/ AFP
Politics

War in Gaza the ‘worst ever conflict for reporters’

The war in Gaza that began after the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack on Israel has killed more journalists than the US Civil War, World Wars I and…

John Haltiwanger 06 April , 2025
Marie Le Pen: The French populist sentenced for graft Sara Gironi Carnevale
Profiles

Marie Le Pen: The French populist sentenced for graft

Marine Le Pen, head of France’s National Rally (RN), uttered the word “incredible” as she stormed out of a Paris courtroom on Monday morning. She…

Con Coughlin 05 April , 2025
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Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla's Film Watch

This monthly feature offers an overview of what’s new on the big screen, spanning both mainstream and arthouse films across all genres while also…

Areej Jamal 05 April , 2025
Opinion

Power and monotheism from Rome to the East

In the West, the role of religion in power has evolved over time. From the fall of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire's embrace of…

Houssam Itani 05 April , 2025
Syrian General Husni al-Zaim came to power in a coup d'etat against President Shukri al-Quwatli on 30 March 1948, establishing the first military regime in the Arab world. AFP
Documents & Memoirs

Al-Zaim's 1949 offer to absorb 300,000 Palestinians into Syria

US President Donald Trump’s announcement of his desire to establish a "Middle Eastern Riviera" in Gaza sparked a wave of criticism across the Islamic…

Sami Moubayed 05 April , 2025
Men gesture on the day Israeli Druze leader Sheik Mowafaq Tarif hosts Druze leaders from Syria, in the first Druze delegation since the 1973 war, at the Druze village of Julis in northern Israel, March 14, 2025. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Politics

Israel's risky gamble as "defender" of Syria's minorities

For the first time in decades, Syrian Druze were allowed to enter Israel. Buses made their way to the grave of Sheikh Amin Tarif—the community’s…

Michael Horowitz 05 April , 2025
A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, US, on April 3, 2025. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Business & Economy

Markets greet Trump’s tariffs with a blizzard of red numbers

By nearly every metric—US and global stock and bond markets, the value of the dollar, or the price of oil—investors seem to expect the impact of…

Keith Johnson 04 April , 2025
Are Europe and the US getting divorced? Nathalie Lees
Politics

Are Europe and the US getting divorced?

For more than seven decades, America’s commitment to Europe’s security and its leadership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) have…

Al Majalla - London 04 April , 2025
Are Europe and the US headed for divorce? Pep Boatella
Politics

Are Europe and the US headed for divorce?

In just two months, the new Trump administration has rattled Europe’s sense of security. For decades, amid the Cold War, the 1990s conflicts in the…

Christopher Phillips 04 April , 2025
How might US-Europe divergence impact the Middle East? Sara Padovan
Politics

How might US-Europe divergence impact the Middle East?

The upheaval in US-Europe relations is accelerating changes in the latter's military and economic policies that will begin to affect its relations…

Robert Ford 04 April , 2025
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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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