Regardless of who will occupy the Oval Office in January 2025, the issue of a US-Saudi mutual defence treaty will be a major item of US Middle East…

Frequent statements from high-ranking officials in Syria and Turkey about the prospects for normalisation have kept the issue in the spotlight,…

On 24 August, a private jet landed at a French airport. On board was a man in his later thirties known to possess a fortune which, according to…

It is as if an earthquake has struck Jenin. Roads, water pipes, communication networks, and electricity cables have been damaged or destroyed across…

The Arab world has a vibrant and rich literary scene. At Al Majalla, we highlight some of our favourite weekly picks—from philosophy and history to…

Since publishing his first novel four decades ago, Hassan Daoud has earned a reputation for being a unique writer. With his deliberate, unhurried…

The promise of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is so revolutionary, and the dangers of its misuse so catastrophic, that the environmental…

With the Ukraine conflict reaching a critical stage, how the West responds to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s request to conduct long-range…

It has now been over 11 months since Hamas's “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation and the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which has brutally killed tens of…

On 4 December 1992, Israeli history professor Yair Hirschfeld and top Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurei (aka Abu Alaa) secretly met at the Cavendish…