Choosing a cover story for the October issue of Al Majalla was difficult because of the string of seismic regional developments that unfolded in the…

As Egypt prepares to mark 51 years since its last war with Israel, the emphasis is on the combat readiness of Egypt’s armed forces. The military…

Selecting the cover story for the October issue of Al Majalla proved no easy task. September and October were marked by a series of significant and…

The saying attributed to Lenin that there are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen has never been truer than the week that…

As leader of a militia that has been at war for every day of its existence, Hassan Nasrallah was no stranger to danger. But one summer night in 2006,…

The social and political fabric of Lebanon has never been as fragile as it is today. The state that emerged after the 15-year civil war, governed by…

One of Iceland’s best-known writers, Andri Snær Magnason, is one of the few who can claim to have won the country’s main literary prize in all three…

One of the very first actions taken by the incoming Labour government was the scrapping of the previous administration’s Rwanda policy. The…

The bunker-busting bombs used by Israel to assassinate the senior leadership of Hezbollah may also have destroyed a large part of its dollar stash…

When Egypt sent a second consecutive shipment of arms to Somalia last month, it likely did so with water and Ethiopia in mind, although officially,…