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Destroying Hezbollah’s heartland will change Lebanon forever Aliaa Aboukhaddour
Politics

Destroying Hezbollah’s heartland will change Lebanon forever

In Lebanon, where demographics are inseparable from politics, the displacement of more than a million people will always leave a lasting impact…

Houssam Itani 13 November , 2024
Elise Stefanik, US Representative, speaks during a rally for Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden, in New York, US, October 27, 2024. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Profiles

Elise Stefanik: What to know about Trump’s UN ambassador pick

US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen New York Rep. Elise Stefanik to serve as his ambassador to the United Nations.The position of UN…

Amy Mackinnon 13 November , 2024
English author Samantha Harvey attends a photocall during the annual Edinburgh International Book Festival at Charlotte Square Gardens on August 27, 2018, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Getty
Culture & Social Affairs

Samantha Harvey: I wanted to tell a story that captured Earth's contradictions

Critically acclaimed author Samantha Harvey has won this year’s prestigious Booker Prize for her novel Orbital. Set on a craft inspired by the…

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 13 November , 2024
US trade deficit with China at its lowest since 2010 Diana Estefanía Rubio
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US trade deficit with China at its lowest since 2010

Trump's upcoming presidency comes with great uncertainty for global markets, considering his economic policies, which are widely viewed as extreme…

Al Majalla - London 12 November , 2024
Representatives of OPEC member states hold a press conference following the their meeting in Vienna, Austria. AFP
Business & Economy

Oil markets weigh prospect of a full-scale Iran-Israel war

Since Iran and Israel began trading military blows directly earlier this year, analysts have been trying to understand what impact any war between…

Abdulfattah Khattab 12 November , 2024
Opinion

Trump may need to pivot to a different Middle East

Donald Trump’s election victory earlier this month surpassed even the loftiest of Republican expectations. With the last votes still being counted at…

Ibrahim Hamidi 12 November , 2024
Lebanon's former foreign minister and current parliamentary candidate Gibran Bassil (C) addresses supporters waving Hezbollah flags at his residence after the voting in the parliamentary election in Batroun ended on May 16, 2022. Ibrahim Chalhoub / AFP
Politics

Jumping ship? Allies distance themselves from Hezbollah

They say there are no such things as permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests. Still, the transience of Lebanese political friendships…

Ali Hamadeh 12 November , 2024
In Gaza, Israel has set records in killing journalists and aid workers, producing the fastest onset of a hunger crisis, targeting hospitals and medical workers, and creating the largest cohort of pediatric amputees. Ann Kiernan
Politics

Gaza is a manufactured apocalypse

There are images and stories from Gaza over the last year that will surely haunt us for years to come—the kinds of pictures we see in history books…

Assal Rad 12 November , 2024
It's already too late for a Gaza ceasefire
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It's already too late for a Gaza ceasefire

Fares Garabet 11 November , 2024
Opinion

Why cutting Hezbollah's arms flow from Syria won't be easy

Since launching its war on Lebanon, Israel has ramped up its air strikes in Syria, laser-focused on dismantling the group's critical weapons supplies…

Haid Haid 11 November , 2024
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Grace Russell
Politics

Gulf states should steer clear of attritional war traps

01 April 2026

The US-Israeli war against Iran aims to draw in Gulf states, but history has shown that entering wars is far easier than exiting them. Prudence is needed now more than ever.

Khairuldeen Al Makhzoomi
Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin speaks at a press conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 25 August, 2025. Luka Dakskobler / Getty
Politics

'Israel is exploiting Iran war to kill a Palestinian state'

01 April 2026

PA Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin tells Al Majalla that Israel is taking advantage of the fact that the world is distracted by the US-Iran war to create irreversible facts on the ground

Ahmed Maher
Ewan White
Politics

Iraq's internal battle for influence comes to a head

31 March 2026

New fronts have opened up across the region in light of the US-Israeli war on Iran, as non-state actors with links to Tehran fear for their futures

Rustum Mahmud
People gather during a celebration called by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) at the Umayyad Square, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, 20 December, 2024. Reuters / Ammar
Business & Economy

US-Iran war gives Syria's global economic pitch more urgency

01 April 2026

Given the effective closure of the Hormuz Strait and Houthi threats to close off the Red Sea, Syria may emerge as a corridor and conduit to bypass these embattled maritime chokepoints

Charles Lister
Farid al-Madhan Reuters/ Al Majalla
Politics

Farid al-Madhan: Assad's fingerprints were on every picture

31 March 2026

A former army forensics employee who later became known as Caesar tells Al Majalla how he risked his life to expose the torture and killing of countless Syrians in regime prisons

Ibrahim Hamidi

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