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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
How Israel's tech prowess might shape the future of warfare Al Majalla
Science & Technology

How Israel's tech prowess might shape the future of warfare

Thanks to massive investment from some of the industry's biggest names, Israel's cutting-edge tech sector is among the best in the world. Carefully…

Abdulfattah Khattab 12 October , 2024
Would Trump and Harris drastically differ on Mideast policy? Sam Green
Politics

Would Trump and Harris drastically differ on Mideast policy?

Republicans' Project 2025Donald Trump and the Republican Party were clear about Iran. Project 2025, the policy programme prepared by Republican Party…

Robert Ford 12 October , 2024
The aftermath of an Israeli air strike in Beirut's southern suburb of Rouweiss neighbourhood on October 10, 2024, after Netanyahu said Lebanon could face "Gaza-like" destruction. Anwar AMRO / AFP
Politics

A walk through Dahiyeh shows why residents call it ‘the second Nakba’

Beirut's southern suburb has hardly been out of the headlines in recent weeks, as Israel’s armed forces pound the population centre in their war…

Badia Fahs 11 October , 2024
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett meets with refugee students during a visit to Gorum refugee camp in South Sudan, on July 10, 2023. Reuters
Culture & Social Affairs

Shocking testimony emerges of systematic rape in Sudan

The civil war in Sudan that began in early 2023 triggered a wave of human suffering across the country—aspects of which are only now gaining…

Hadil Arja 11 October , 2024
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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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