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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends a meeting with business leaders in central London on January 28, 2025. BENJAMIN CREMEL / POOL / AFP
Politics

Between Trump and the EU, Britain feels increasingly isolated

Britain has marked the fifth anniversary since it departed the European Union with little fanfare. While some of the government’s pro-Brexit critics…

Christopher Phillips 06 February , 2025
Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) and Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov posing for a picture during their meeting in Damascus on January 29, 2025. Reuters
Politics

Al-Sharaa's Russia balancing act

Since the fall of the Syrian regime on 8 December, diplomats from around the world have flocked to Damascus at a pace unseen in decades. However,…

Haid Haid 06 February , 2025
Trump signed two executive orders, one "reimposing maximum pressure on Iran" and a second executive order withdrawing the United States from UNRWA on February 4, 2025. Anna Moneymaker / AFP
Politics

Unpacking Trump’s Iran ultimatum

US President Donald Trump’s top priority in the Middle East is formulating a strategy for effectively curbing Iran’s nuclear aspirations, which seem…

Bilal Saab 06 February , 2025
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa shake hands during a joint press conference following their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Ankara on February 4, 2025. OZAN KOSE / AFP
Politics

Damascus and Ankara discuss Syria’s key Kurdish question

Shortly after Ahmed al-Sharaa was confirmed as Syria’s interim president, he went to Ankara to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, brought…

Omer Onhon 06 February , 2025
Opinion

Will Trump's tariffs damage the Western alliance?

If US President Donald Trump’s primary purpose in provoking a global trade war is to revive the flagging fortunes of the American economy, he also…

Con Coughlin 06 February , 2025
Netanayhu's attempts to subvert the Gaza ceasefire
Cartoons

Netanayhu's attempts to subvert the Gaza ceasefire

Fares Garabet 06 February , 2025
Opinion

A new Syria and a reimagined army

Nearly two months after the fall of the Assad regime, the contours of a new Syria are beginning to take shape. In his first address since being…

Ibrahim Hamidi 04 February , 2025
Opinion

The sheer lunacy of Trump’s Gaza takeover plan

One of the special privileges of being the president of the United States is that people have to take what you say seriously, no matter how bananas…

Steven A. Cook 06 February , 2025

Gaza hostage swap, climate action and digital art show

February, 2025
MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP
MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP

A digital presentation of paintings by French impressionist painter Claude Monet in Les Carrieres des Lumières in southern France on January 30, 2025.

Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP
Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP

Hamas fighters secure an area before handing over an Israeli-American hostage to a Red Cross team in Gaza City on February 1, 2025, as part of the fourth hostage-prisoner exchange.

REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
REUTERS/Hatem Khaled

Palestinians wait to receive aid from an UNRWA distribution point, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 4, 2025.

GREG BAKER / AFP
GREG BAKER / AFP

A woman wearing a traditional costume poses for photos outside the Forbidden City on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year in Beijing on February 2, 2025.

REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

A climate activist wears a scold's bridle as they demonstrate on January 29, 2025, outside the Royal Courts of Justice at a hearing brought by 16 climate activists who have been jailed for their actions in London.

REUTERS/Quetzalli Nicte-Ha
REUTERS/Quetzalli Nicte-Ha

Members of the Animal Heroes organisation take part in an anti-bullfighting protest in front of the Plaza de Toros Mexico in Mexico City on February 2, 2025.

REUTERS/Feisal Omar
REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Puntland Security Forces parade newly trained soldiers and equipment to combat the Islamic State (IS) in Bosasso, Bari Region, Puntland region, Somalia January 30, 2025.

RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP
RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP

A juggler rides a unicycle past monks, or Hindu holy men, taking part in the Nagar Yatra procession in Johannesburg on February 1, 2025.

Ousmane Makaveli / AFP
Ousmane Makaveli / AFP

Two traditional Dogon wrestlers fight at the Ogobagna Festival in Bamako on January 30, 2025.

SPA/AFP
SPA/AFP

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (L), his wife Latifa al-Droubi (R), and Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani (2nd-L), exit the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine while performing Umrah in the city of Mecca on February 3, 2025.

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Al Majalla's Film Watch

From studios in the Arab world and beyond, Al Majalla offers thoughtful critiques of the newest films to hit the screen, from mainstream blockbusters…

Areej Jamal 05 February , 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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