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The cultural connection to camels runs deep and reveals much about Arab customs and culture. shutterstock
Culture & Social Affairs

The Year of the Camel: Saudi Arabia celebrates its most-coveted creature

Riyadh: The Saudi Ministry of Culture has declared 2024 as the "Year of the Camel" in a nod to the significant role the majestic "ship of the desert"…

Abdul Rahman Farouk 29 February , 2024
Demonstrators wave Palestinian flags and placards as they protest in Parliament Square in London on February 21, 2024, during an Opposition Day motion in the House of Commons calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. AFP
Politics

Parliament squabble over Gaza shows Britain's global decline

It was a farcical scene.On 21 February, the UK parliament debated a serious matter: the Gaza war. The motion, proposed by Britain’s third largest…

Christopher Phillips 29 February , 2024
Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the World Health Organisation, and more. Reuters
Politics

Trump’s isolationism revives an old American tendency

Former British Prime Minister and war leader Winston Churchill once said there was one worse thing than fighting with allies: fighting without them…

Aqeel Abbas 29 February , 2024
Israel's war on hospitals
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Israel's war on hospitals

Fares Garabet 29 February , 2024
People raise lights and placards during a demonstration against racism, anti-Semitism and hate speech in Munich, southern Germany on February 11, 2024. AFP
Politics

Never again is now: How Germany's antisemitic past has shaped its present

At the end of January 2024, a Lebanese-born Australian scholar by the name of Ghassan Hage was summarily sacked from his role at the Max Planck…

Bryn Haworth 28 February , 2024
Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud (R) and Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Hu Chunhua attend the 10th Arab-China Business Conference in Riyadh on June 11, 2023. AFP
Business & Economy

China and GCC steadily grow economic ties amid challenges

Late last month, China’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Chen Weiqing, noted that nearly 90% of the free trade negotiations between Beijing and the Gulf…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 28 February , 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (C) stands between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (R) and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (L) at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) on February 17, 2024. AFP
Politics

South Caucasus at a crossroads between prosperity and further conflict

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev won his fifth term in power earlier this month after he called a snap general election that was held amid some…

Omer Onhon 28 February , 2024
Opinion

Whose peace? Israel’s Gaza plan at odds with Tokyo Principles

In November 2023, an outline for the future of Gaza and its people was introduced and discussed by world leaders in the Japanese capital.These so…

Ibrahim Hamidi 28 February , 2024
Russia's economy reels under war and sanctions Diana Estefanía Rubio
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Russia's economy reels under war and sanctions

The Russian economy witnessed considerable economic strain following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions by the United…

Al Majalla - London 27 February , 2024

Jordan air drops aid in southern Gaza but Palestinians still starve in the north

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Aid is air-dropped over Gaza in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 26, 2024.

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A handout picture provided by the Jordanian army on February 26, 2024, shows Jordanian military aircraft during an operation to drop humanitarian aid over the southern Gaza Strip

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A handout picture provided by the Jordanian army on February 26, 2024 shows a Jordanian military aircraft dropping humanitarian aid over the southern Gaza Strip.

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A Jordanian military aircraft drops humanitarian aid over Rafah in the skies of the southern Gaza Strip on February 26, 2024.

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Humanitarian aid is being dropped by a Jordanian military aircraft over Rafah in the skies of the southern Gaza Strip on February 26, 2024.

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Palestinians gather to collect aid food in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on February 26, 2024.

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Palestinians react as they gather to collect aid food in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on February 26, 2024.

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Palestinians react as they gather to collect aid food in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on February 26, 2024.

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Shaky Israel-Iran ceasefire points to unfinished business

24 June 2025

What Trump has dubbed the '12-Day War' could be just the opening salvo of a much longer conflict

Michael Horowitz
Emergency workers check the damage caused to a building from an Iranian missile strike in Beersheba in southern Israel on June 24, 2025. John Wessels / AFP
Business & Economy

Counting the cost of the Israel-Iran war

24 June 2025

The recent Israel-Iran war is not just a regional flashpoint; it is a mirror reflecting the fragility and interdependence of the modern global economy

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
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
Opinion

Israeli and Iranian claims of victory ring hollow

25 June 2025

Netanyahu did not realise his goal of ending Iran's nuclear programme and regime change, and Iran stood alone in its war with Israel, as global and regional allies left it to fend for itself

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
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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

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