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Will Trump back down from a global trade war? Brian Stauffer
Business & Economy

Will Trump back down from a global trade war?

As comedian Oliver Hardy might have said to US President Donald Trump about his tariffs, “Here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten us into.” On the…

Bob Davis 07 April , 2025
Women as symbols of popular culture on Arab stamps
Culture & Social Affairs

Women as symbols of popular culture on Arab stamps

Huda Taleb Siraj could be said to be following in the lickmarks of her father, Shafiq Taleb—one of the most prominent stamp collectors in Lebanon and…

Rosette Fadel 07 April , 2025
Trump "considering" third presidential term
Cartoons

Trump "considering" third presidential term

Fares Garabet 07 April , 2025
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
Al Majalla's Film Watch Al Majalla
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
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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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