The job of an analyst is to make sense of facts by adding context and spotting trends. Here is one for you: the number of people killed in Lebanon by…

Al Majalla’s Book Watch takes a regular look at some of the new volumes in the Arab World’s rich publishing scene. Here, we round up a selection of…

Hezbollah never thought the day would come when its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in a multipronged campaign by Israel targeting Hezbollah’s…

On 30 September 2015, Russia launched a military intervention in Syria after a request by the Damascus regime in its fight against the Syrian…

While global attention is fixed on Israel's escalating attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon, another potential regional conflict is quietly simmering in…

At a time when Europe is struggling to cope with illegal migration, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni's uncompromising approach to tackling the…

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…

Born on 31 August 1960 to a vegetable vendor from the village of Bassouriyeh in South Lebanon, Hasan Nasrallah hailed from a working-class family…

Not long ago, a senior-level meeting was convened in Damascus. Supported by key Arab states, it explored the reassertion of Syrian influence in…