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How Iran sees the 'New Middle East' Nesma Moharam
Politics

How Iran sees the 'New Middle East'

Since its establishment in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has positioned itself as a revisionist force on the global stage. At the core of Iran’s…

Hamidreza Azizi 09 November , 2024
Opinion

Ukraine could offer clues to Trump's wider foreign policy tack

How Donald Trump responds to the challenge presented by the Ukraine conflict will provide an important indication as to how his administration…

Con Coughlin 08 November , 2024
Novel on Algeria's Black Decade nabs France’s Goncourt Prize Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

Novel on Algeria's Black Decade nabs France’s Goncourt Prize

Wounds can sometimes appear to be healed, only to reopen later. Kamel Daoud, an Algerian author residing in France, manages to give this kind of…

Samir Qasimi 08 November , 2024
Fighters lift flags of Iraq and paramilitary groups, including al-Nujaba and Kataib Hezbollah, during a funeral in Baghdad for five militants killed a day earlier in a US strike in northern Iraq, on December 4, 2023. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP
Politics

Iraq could pay the price for Iran's next move against Israel

Just when it seemed that the storm might pass, dark clouds gathered once more. Initial reports following Israel’s 26 October strikes on Iran…

Haid Haid 08 November , 2024
What will Trump's foreign policy really look like? Eduardo Ramon
Politics

What will Trump's foreign policy really look like?

We will now see a pure Donald Trump foreign policy without restraints from the American Senate, moderates in the Republican Party, or professionals…

Robert Ford 08 November , 2024
Opinion

How will Trump handle Netanyahu?

Before Donald Trump won the US presidential election, dozens of analysis articles were written on the potential impact of his second administration…

Houssam Itani 07 November , 2024
Welcome to Trump’s world Lina Jaradat
Politics

Welcome to Trump’s world

A stunning victory has crowned Donald Trump the most consequential American president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. After defeating Kamala Harris—and…

The Economist 07 November , 2024
Why she lost Lina Jaradat
Politics

Why she lost

The postmortems about US Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 US presidential election will go on for a long time. Many…

Michael Hirsh 07 November , 2024
Opinion

Where is Lebanon's Sadat?

Last week, Saudi ministers and diplomats in Riyadh hosted the initial sessions of a global coalition committed to implementing a two-state solution,…

Alia Mansour 07 November , 2024
Trump's win vindicates US firms that never left Russia Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

Trump's win vindicates US firms that never left Russia

In September, when asked about sanctions against countries like Russia, Donald Trump said he used them “but would put them on and take them off as…

Nazareth Seferian 07 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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