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Beware the wind when a strategy wears thin Fares Garabet
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Beware the wind when a strategy wears thin

Fares Garabet 06 January , 2025
Opinion

Totalitarian states are nothing but shaky edifices. Ask Syria

When Bashar al-Assad disappeared from Syria in early December, so too did all the norms, apparatus, charters, and institutions that made up the …

Rustum Mahmud 05 January , 2025
Kaja Kallas of Estonia has been appointed Europe's foreign policy chief Axel Rangel Garcia
Profiles

Kaja Kallas: Estonian firebrand becomes Europe’s top diplomat

At a time when there is a pressing need for the West to demonstrate more resolve in defending its interests, the appointment of former Estonian Prime…

Con Coughlin 05 January , 2025
Moving from crisis to hope: Egypt’s economy in 2025 Eduardo Ramon
Business & Economy

Moving from crisis to hope: Egypt’s economy in 2025

For Egyptians, 2024 may be remembered for soaring prices and of trying to adapt to the difficult financial and monetary headwinds stoked by the…

Marcelle Nasr 04 January , 2025
Events in Syria and events in Marquez's mythical epic have many parallels Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, the fall of Assad, and the missing chapter

At the end of the 8th episode of the TV series One Hundred Years of Solitude, Úrsula—José Arcadio Buendía's companion in founding and building…

Samer Abou Hawwach 04 January , 2025
Opinion

IS in New Orleans? Trump’s retrenchment may have to hold

Suggestions that the terrorist responsible for New Year attack on New Orleans had links to Islamic State (IS) show that the threat posed by Islamist…

Con Coughlin 03 January , 2025
Opinion

The Arab world’s fortunes will only change when wealth is spread

The year 2025 could be one of maps, given the huge shifts of 2024. Changes were seen not only in terms of territorial gains and losses, but also in…

Houssam Itani 03 January , 2025
ملصق فيلم "أثر الأشباح".
Culture & Social Affairs

Victims become hunters in new film about torture in Syrian prisons

The film Ghost Trail is a thrilling spy movie that provides dramatic insight into one of the biggest global events of the year: the fall of Bashar al…

Areej Jamal 03 January , 2025
Netanyahu may cajole and send his wife, but Trump is no friend Andy Edwards
Politics

Netanyahu may cajole and send his wife, but Trump is no friend

On 2 December 2024, President-elect Donald Trump sat down for dinner with two members of Israel’s Netanyahu family. Neither were Benjamin, Israel’s…

Michael Horowitz 03 January , 2025
The struggle for Syria Aliaa Abou Khaddour
Politics

The struggle for Syria

Bashar al-Assad has been consigned to history, with the Assad family facing the inevitable judgment of time. Though the regime has collapsed, Syria…

Al Majalla - London 02 January , 2025
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Houthis seek expansion after reaching Bab al-Mandab

17 September 2026

After rapid advances, the Yemeni rebel group is fortifying its positions along the vital maritime chokepoint, while intensifying pressure in southwestern Taiz, northern Lahj, and Marib

Ibrahim Jalal
Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

Backlash over Macklemore ban shows major US culture shift

16, Sep 2026

The American rapper's removal from Ed Sheeran's tour over his 'Free Palestine' speech and the British singer's meek rebuttal sparked an uproar on social media

Samer Abou Hawwach
Axel Rangel García
Politics

Francesca Albanese: the Palestine question is a global one

16 September 2026

In an interview with Al Majalla, the UN Special Rapporteur says the backlash against her for speaking out against Israel's genocide in Gaza reveals much about the current international order

Elie Kossaifi
Al Majalla
Business & Economy

AI data centres: the costliest infrastructure race in history?

16 September 2026

Investment could reach $50tn by 2050, but electricity, semiconductors and data laws will determine where the factories of the new economy are built

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi shares a moment with Russian President Vladimir Putin as Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on during day two of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India, on 13 September 2026. REUTERS
Politics

Only China, India, and Russia can end the Iran war

15 September 2026

Washington needs its rivals to create peace on its behalf

Amir Handjani

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