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Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (C) waves as he returns to his car after visiting the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood on October 12, 2024. AFP
Politics

Why Iran hesitates to directly take on Israel

Over the past four decades, Iran has steadily expanded its influence by cementing its control over several Arab capitals through its network of proxy…

Badia Fahs 14 October , 2024
A commitment to invest in our common health AlMajalla
Science & Technology

A commitment to invest in our common health

This article was co-authored by Geneviève Darrieussecq (Minister of Social Affairs and Health, France), Karl Lauterbach (Federal Minister for Health,…

Al Majalla - London 14 October , 2024
The Palestinian strategy in confronting the Israeli strategy Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

The Palestinian strategy in confronting the Israeli strategy

The Israeli strategy is clear, even if we do not want to acknowledge it. In the past, the Palestinian national movement believed that our agreement…

Nasser al-Kidwa 14 October , 2024
Israel attacks UNIFIL forces in Lebanon
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Israel attacks UNIFIL forces in Lebanon

Fares Garabet 14 October , 2024
Opinion

Hezbollah's house of cards brought down by its own delusions

For two decades, Hezbollah built a reputation for itself as the only group capable of taking on Israel and its occupation of Arab lands. It contended…

Majed Kayali 13 October , 2024
Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov poses in Paris on November 8, 2022, after he was awarded the Medicis Foreign Literature Prize for his novel Les Abeilles Grises. Bertrand GUAY / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Why Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov is avoiding predictions

Andrey Kurkov is a Ukrainian writer known for novels chronicling the country’s politics, society, and culture, with plotlines that have a habit of…

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 13 October , 2024
Jerome Powell during a press conference in Washington on May 1, 2024. AFP
Profiles

Jerome Powell: The man with the global economy in his hands

US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has one of the world’s most important jobs, making some of the world’s biggest economic decisions…

Toufic Chanbour 13 October , 2024
Syrian Red Crescent rescuers attend to displaced people arriving from Lebanon at the Jdeidat Yabus border crossing in southwestern Syria on October 7, 2024. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP
Business & Economy

War in Lebanon puts Syria's already struggling economy under further strain

Damascus’s deep economic reliance on Lebanon, shaped by years of conflict and international sanctions, has made regime-controlled areas particularly…

Haid Haid 13 October , 2024
Opinion

'Resistance' claims of victory ring hollow amid Lebanon's smoky ruins

An interview with Reuters this week by senior Hamas official Khaled Meshaal and a video statement from Hezbollah’s deputy leader Naim Qassem around…

Houssam Itani 12 October , 2024
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates is seen onstage during the Alight Align Arise: Advancing the Movement for Repair National Conference at Thompson Buckhead on June 7, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. Carol Lee Rose/AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s not-so-radical departure

Not long after I finished reading The Message, New York magazine ran a cover story on the book’s author headlined “The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates.”…

Deborah Baker 12 October , 2024
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People shout slogans as they gather after a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war was announced, in Tehran, Iran, 8 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

US-Iran ceasefire unlikely to hold

07 April 2026

If the ceasefire collapses, China has an interest in getting the two sides back to the table, but it would be a difficult task given Tehran's deep mistrust of the US and Israel.

Xiaotong Yang
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
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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