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US President Donald Trump delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States inside the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. Shawn Thew / AFP
Politics

The new American imperialism

The traditional point of an inaugural address is to transcend the politics of the campaign and draw the country together. Donald Trump’s second…

The Economist 21 January , 2025
US director David Lynch poses after receiving a lifetime achievement award during the 12th Rome Film Festival on November 4, 2017, in Rome. TIZIANA FABI / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Farewell, David Lynch: A tribute to cinema’s last great surrealist

Just days after devastating fires swept through homes and film studios in Los Angeles, Hollywood suffered another blow with the passing of one of its…

Areej Jamal 21 January , 2025
Turkish strikes on October 5 on the Kurdish-controlled region of Hasakeh in northeastern Syria hit a car, killing two people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. AFP
Politics

Stakeholders vie for oil and gas control in a post-Assad Syria

Countless unknown factors make it impossible to predict how developments will unfold in post-Bashar al-Assad Syria. With the new government not…

Giorgio Cafiero 21 January , 2025
Opinion

Trump will contend with a much-changed Middle East

President Donald Trump will soon find out that the Middle East he knew in his first term has profoundly changed: Hamas launched a deadly attack on…

Ibrahim Hamidi 21 January , 2025
Syria's oil and gas comes with strategic potential Diana Estefanía Rubio
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Syria's oil and gas comes with strategic potential

Syria has the potential to significantly increase its oil and natural gas production, which can provide energy and government revenue critical to the…

Al Majalla - London 21 January , 2025
Tunisia may need an economic miracle in 2025
Business & Economy

Tunisia may need an economic miracle in 2025

In December 2024, two announcements from or about Tunisia seemed to sum up its financial and security challenges for the year ahead.The first was the…

Kawthar Zantour 20 January , 2025
Opinion

Syria's central bank needs true reform, not cosmetic change

The Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-appointed caretaker body, made history on 30 December by appointing Dr Maysa Sabirin as the first female governor of…

Haid Haid 20 January , 2025
Donald Trump: From the 45th US president to the 47th
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Donald Trump: From the 45th US president to the 47th

Fares Garabet 20 January , 2025
A freed Palestinian prisoner gestures after being released from an Israeli jail as part of a hostage swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Ramallah,  in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Politics

Israel opens Schrödinger’s box as Gaza ceasefire takes hold

In the 15 months since the beginning of the war, Israelis have felt uncertain as to a number of critical issues: Whether hostages they hoped to see…

Michael Horowitz 19 January , 2025
Ahmed al-Dalati, deputy commander-in-chief of Ahrar al-Sham
Politics

Syrian commander: We infiltrated Assad’s army command on Day One

A month since former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled the country to live as a fugitive in Russia, the story of how he was forced out is still…

Ibrahim Hamidi 19 January , 2025
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A Houthi takeover of Bab al-Mandab cannot be tolerated

12 September 2026

The Iran-backed group's effective takeover of Yemen's western coast comes with serious regional and global implications. The world needs to act.

Alice Gower
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Inside Assad’s nuclear secrets

09 September 2026

Al Majalla reveals the structure of Syria's nuclear programme 19 years after Israel bombed the Al-Kibar reactor, detailing the involvement of other states and the assassinations that followed

Al Majalla - London
Underwater image of a diver among fish at the North Seymour Island dive site in the Galapagos archipelago, Ecuador, taken on 8 March 2024. ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP
Business & Economy

The global race for rare earths reaches the ocean floor

07 September 2026

A critical mineral found on Japan's seabed has caught US attention, and the two are teaming up to see whether it can yield future benefits and reduce their dependence on China

Abdulfattah Khattab
Al Majalla/Reuters
Politics

The murky origins of al-Qaeda explained

09 September 2026

Thousands of Muslim volunteers flocked to Afghanistan in 1979 to fight the Soviets in response to a rallying cry, aided by the largest covert operation in CIA history

Steve Hewitt
Susan Sarandon in Echo Chamber ANDREA MICONI
Culture & Social Affairs

Susan Sarandon on fear, freedom, and refusing to change

08 September 2026

The renowned American actress tells Al Majalla about her gnawing drive for justice at the Venice Film Festival, where her new film 'Echo Chamber' premiered

Leila Amar

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