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Unpacking Netanyahu’s rush to Washington Al Majalla
Politics

Unpacking Netanyahu’s rush to Washington

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington this week for the seventh meeting between him and US President Donald Trump, he…

Michael Horowitz 11 February , 2026
Will Israel derail US-Iran negotiations?
Cartoons

Will Israel derail US-Iran negotiations?

Fares Garabet 11 February , 2026

Epstein files outcry and more from the world

Martin BUREAU / AFP
Martin BUREAU / AFP

This photograph taken in Le-Perreux-sur-Marne, outside Paris on February 9, 2026 shows undated pictures provided by the US Department of Justice on 30 January 2026 as part of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP
Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP

Buildings are seen through a veil of fog rolling over the Al-Salmeyya district in Kuwait City on 9 February 2026.

REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

A Palestinian girl plays with another as she pushes wheelchair at a tent camp sheltering Palestinians who were displaced during the two-year Israeli offensive, in Gaza City, on 9 February 2026.

AP / Vincent Thian
AP / Vincent Thian

Chinese folk performance known as da shuhua, or molten iron fireworks ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations in Beijing, China, on 9 February 2026.

AP /Michael Probst
AP /Michael Probst

The Baltic Sea is frozen along the beach in Sierksdorf, northern Germany, on 8 February 2026.

REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

A drone view of a maze with hedges illustrating the shape of a map of Ireland, including each county, in Tullow, Ireland, on 8 February 2026.

JUNG YEON-JE / AFP
JUNG YEON-JE / AFP

South Korean students wearing traditional hanbok dresses bow as they attend a graduation and coming-of-age ceremony at a girls' high school in Seoul on 5 February 2026.

REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

Divers wearing traditional Korean costume hanbok perform with a stingray during an event in celebration of the upcoming Lunar New Year at an aquarium in Seoul, South Korea, on 10 February 2026.

Joseph EID / AFP
Joseph EID / AFP

A girl walks past shelters at the Imam Ali Housing Compound, where displaced Lebanese and Syrian refugee Shiite Muslims take refuge by the city of Hermel in Lebanon's northeastern Bekaa valley on 4 February 2026.

MARVIN RECINOS / AFP
MARVIN RECINOS / AFP

A Catholic faithful bathes during the pilgrimage of the Child Jesus and the Child Zarco at the El Chorreron waterfall in Santa Maria Ostuma, El Salvador, on 4 February 2026.

Could Trump actually buy Greenland? Sara Gironi Carnevale
Documents & Memoirs

Could Trump actually buy Greenland?

“There are some places that are never for sale.” American President Donald Trump was told this to his face—not at the recent World Economic Forum in…

Steve Hewitt 31 January , 2026
Six factors shaping Trump’s calculus on Iran Reuters-Al Majalla
Politics

Six factors shaping Trump’s calculus on Iran

No one truly knows what Donald Trump will ultimately decide to do about Iran in the coming weeks—perhaps even Trump himself. But for a US president…

Brian Katulis 27 January , 2026

The aurora borealis, Chinese New Year and more

NACKSTRAND / AFP
NACKSTRAND / AFP

The aurora borealis lights up the sky above the Nuuk cathedral in Nuuk, Greenland, on 23 January 2026.

REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Light installations decorate the Zigong International Lantern Festival ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year in Zigong, Sichuan province, China, on 23 January 2026.

REUTERS/Mike Segar
REUTERS/Mike Segar

A male Northern Cardinal bird perches on a branch during heavy snowfall as a major winter storm spread snow across a large swath of the United States, in Nyack, New York, on 25 January 2026.

Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP
Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP

Indian soldiers march during the country's 77th Republic Day parade at Kartavya Path in New Delhi on 26 January 2026.

Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP
Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP

A boatman steers a shikara during a spell of fresh snowfall at the Dal lake in Srinagar on 27 January 2026.

AP / Rajesh Kumar Singh
AP / Rajesh Kumar Singh

A large gathering of Hindu devotees is seen on Basant Panchami, the day which marks the advent of spring, at the confluence of rivers Ganges and Yamuna during the annual fair of Magh Mela in Prayagraj, India, on 23 January 2026.

INA FASSBENDER / AFP
INA FASSBENDER / AFP

Snow-covered mountains along the coastline with the Labrador Sea, a part of the North Atlantic Ocean near Nuuk, western Greenland, on 25 January 2026.

ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP
ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP

A man stretches at a lookout point next to the U Bein bridge, which spans the Taungthaman Lake, as the sun rises in Mandalay on 26 January 2026.

BASHAR TALEB / AFP
BASHAR TALEB / AFP

A Palestinian boy searches for recyclable material at a landfill against the backdrop of destroyed buildings in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on 25 January 2026.

ATTA KENARE / AFP
ATTA KENARE / AFP

Iranian women walk past an anti-US billboard installed on a building at the Enqelab Square in Tehran on 26 January 2026.

Opinion

Four miscalculations by the SDF

The Syrian government’s rapid recapture of most areas formerly held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in under two weeks is not only a stunning…

Ibrahim Hamidi 27 January , 2026
Greenland: the frozen Arctic island that Trump wants Al Majalla
Infographics

Greenland: the frozen Arctic island that Trump wants

Greenland, an ice-capped country located between the United States and Russia, is rapidly emerging as a geopolitical frontline as the Arctic slowly…

Al Majalla - London 27 January , 2026
Opinion

Lebanon's handling of Syrian prisoners will be telling

Syria and Lebanon have finally taken a significant step towards resolving one of the most persistent issues between them. The two countries are close…

Alia Mansour 27 January , 2026
US President Donald Trump holds a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during the World Economic Forum in Davos on 21 January 2026.
 Reuters
Politics

Trump's Nile mediation offer raises eyebrows in Egypt

US President Donald Trump’s recent proposal to mediate the longstanding water-sharing dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia can, on the surface, be…

Amr Emam 27 January , 2026
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Business & Economy

The tiny waterway that put the global economy into a chokehold

18 April 2026

Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players

Steve Hewitt
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Glimpses of Bush's Iraq debacle appear in Trump's Iran war

15 April 2026

The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.

Robert Ford
Al Majalla
Business & Economy

The US plan to turn Syria into an oil transit hub

16 April 2026

Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.

Al Majalla - London
An Iranian woman flashes the V-sign as she takes part in a rally to pay tribute to women killed during war, in Tehran on 17 April 2026. AFP
Politics

Has Iran's ideology actually hardened?

16 April 2026

The change in tone and presentation of policy isn't a fundamental redirection, but rather the consolidation of a system under pressure

Alex Vatanka
Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed holds two awards during the opening ceremony of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, late on 14 September 2010. AMR AHMAD / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Daoud Abdel Sayed and the cinema of quiet rebellion

16 April 2026

Throughout his career, the renowned Egyptian film director challenged authority, rejected easy answers, and remained rooted in lived experience

Hazem Massoud

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