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The American crusade against TikTok
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The American crusade against TikTok

Fares Garabet 18 March , 2024
A series of red lines were drawn at a meeting of gas producing countries in Algiers. Al Majalla looks at what they are, where they came from, and what they may mean for energy markets. Ewan White
Business & Economy

Top global gas producers set four red lines

At the recent annual Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) meeting held in Algiers, members set out their red lines, saying what they would and would…

Rabia Khreis 18 March , 2024
A still from the film Trenque Lauquen Bulldog Film
Culture & Social Affairs

Five imaginative films that brought cinema back to its pre-Covid shine

For the first time in years, this year's Oscars season felt like it did before COVID-19, as several remarkable films competed for awards.Two of the…

Firas Al-Madi 18 March , 2024
Damascus and Tehran wanted invading US troops to get stuck in a 'new Vietnam' and set up an operations room headed by their top lieutenants to cause havoc, never-before-published documents show. Al Majalla
Documents & Memoirs

Exclusive: How Syria and Iran plotted over a post-Saddam Iraq

The latest instalment of Al Majalla’s groundbreaking series from the Khaddam Cache shows how Syria’s president and Iran’s Supreme Leader wanted…

Ibrahim Hamidi 18 March , 2024
Opinion

Israel is behind America's crusade against TikTok

The US House of Representatives' decision to ban TikTok is part of escalating trade tensions between the United States and China. It also reflects…

Khaled Kassar 18 March , 2024
A woman walks past a mural painted in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza on a wall in Nairobi, Kenya, on 14 March 2024. Reuters
Politics

Palestinians must capitalise on the growing global support for their cause

For five months, war has raged, Palestinians have suffered, Israel has had international backing, and a path out of this most horrendous of conflicts…

Asaad Ghanem 17 March , 2024
The shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf. The city is home to Iraq's influential Religious Authority. Shutterstock
Politics

How Iraq’s Religious Authority rose to prominence after Saddam's fall

About 160km south of Baghdad, where the River Euphrates forks, lies the ancient and holy city of Najaf. Here sits Iraq’s Religious Authority.Najaf is…

Shahd Dashty 17 March , 2024
Memory aims to improve decision-making by retaining what is significant while discarding the rest. Shutterstock
Science & Technology

Best forgotten? How the brain needs to filter memory to stay fit

The man who approached the shopkeeper in New Jersey looked familiar for good reason. He was a well-known Princeton University lecturer, but he seemed…

Alaa Emara 17 March , 2024
Opinion

Syria sees worst violence in four years

As Syria commemorates the 13th anniversary of the uprising, it descends into an even darker phase with scant hope for improvement on the horizon. …

Haid Haid 16 March , 2024
The cast of the Lebanese 'Al-Hayba'. Courtesy of Sabbah Brothers
Culture & Social Affairs

Lebanese dramas capture the moral quandaries of everyday life

“We are made up of a bunch of experiences. We must understand everyone’s side to come up with an answer. We must be held accountable and hold others…

Inna Rudolf 16 March , 2024
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Lina Jaradat
Politics

Attacks on Iran make a nuclear bomb more likely

20 June 2025

Iran's nuclear programme is damaged, but its determination is heightened

Eric Brewer
Michelle Thompson.
Business & Economy

What would happen if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz?

18 June 2025

The strait carries up to 20% of the world's oil exports at around 20 million barrels of oil each day. Any closure could cost the global economy greatly, even if only for a short time.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi
A demonstrator holds a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while gathering with others during a rally in solidarity with the government against Israel's attacks on Iran on June 14, 2025. ATTA KENARE / AFP
Politics

Iran is further from regime change than Israel thinks

17 June 2025

Israel sees an opportunity to eliminate a strategic regional rival, but the future course of events primarily hinges on what Trump decides to do next

Houssam Itani
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses Iranians on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (portrait), in Tehran on June 4, 2025. KHAMENEI.IR / AFP
Profiles

Ali Khamenei: the guardian of Iran's strategic patience doctrine

21 June 2025

For decades, Iran's supreme leader—first Khomeini, then Khamenei—pursued a strategy of backing regional militias to fight Israel, but with the 'resistance axis' in tatters, Iran is left to fight alone

Arash Azizi
Eduardo Ramon
Politics

How Israel pulled off its unprecedented strike on Iran

18 June 2025

Years of painstaking intelligence work went into the operation that activated vast networks of operatives and involved multiple layers of subterfuge

Michael Horowitz

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