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2025 global health achievements and 2026 priorities

Global health recorded remarkable achievements in 2025 while also experiencing profound challenges. Multilateralism, science, and solidarity were…

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus 09 January , 2026
A collage of protests in Iran on 8 and 9 January 2026. AFP /AP
Politics

With protests at home and threats abroad, Iran looks rattled

For decades, each big bout of unrest in Iran has followed a similar pattern. It starts with a trigger, be it a murder, a stolen election or a…

The Economist 09 January , 2026
Forces that seized control of the Second Military Region Command on the outskirts of Al Mukalla, the capital of Hadramout, on 3 January 2026. AFP
Politics

Saudi Arabia's red line in Yemen explained

The complexity facing Yemen and the surrounding region in 2026 cannot be understood without recognising Saudi Arabia’s role in pursuing stability in…

Abdullah F. Alrebh 09 January , 2026
People ride in an old electric tram in Alexandria, Egypt, on 3 August 2017. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Culture & Social Affairs

Alexandria bids farewell to its historic tram

For its people, Alexandria is not merely a city; it is a state of being in which history intersects with the present, creating something akin to an…

Yasmin Abdallah 09 January , 2026
Opinion

Can a "coalition of the willing" win Europe favour with Trump?

At a time when tensions between Europe and the US are at an all-time high, the offer by leading European powers such as the UK and France to provide…

Con Coughlin 08 January , 2026
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner deliver remarks upon the signing of the declaration on deploying post-ceasefire force in Ukraine during the Coalition of the Willing summit in Paris on 6 January 2026. LUDOVIC MARIN /AFP
Politics

Israel-Syria security talks make headway in Paris

Contacts regarding a potential security agreement between Israel and Syria were renewed this week following several prior rounds of talks…

Michael Harari 08 January , 2026
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Two mistakes that precipitated Zubaidi's downfall

The leader of the secessionist Southern Transitional Council (STC) has fled to the United Arab Emirates via Somaliland after skipping planned peace…

Al Majalla - London 08 January , 2026
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Business & Economy

Russia could feel the economic screws tighten in 2026

At the very end of his press conference in Florida, shortly after the successful US exfiltration of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on 3 January,…

Nazareth Seferian 08 January , 2026
Opinion

“Shopping Lists”: from Greenland to Yemen

Officials in President Donald Trump’s administration step before television cameras and speak as though reading from a shopping list: Cuba is bad…

Houssam Itani 07 January , 2026
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Operation Absolute Abduction

Fares Garabet 07 January , 2026
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Business & Economy

The tiny waterway that put the global economy into a chokehold

18 April 2026

Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players

Steve Hewitt
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Politics

Glimpses of Bush's Iraq debacle appear in Trump's Iran war

15 April 2026

The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.

Robert Ford
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Business & Economy

The US plan to turn Syria into an oil transit hub

16 April 2026

Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.

Al Majalla - London
An Iranian woman flashes the V-sign as she takes part in a rally to pay tribute to women killed during war, in Tehran on 17 April 2026. AFP
Politics

Has Iran's ideology actually hardened?

16 April 2026

The change in tone and presentation of policy isn't a fundamental redirection, but rather the consolidation of a system under pressure

Alex Vatanka
Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed holds two awards during the opening ceremony of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, late on 14 September 2010. AMR AHMAD / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Daoud Abdel Sayed and the cinema of quiet rebellion

16 April 2026

Throughout his career, the renowned Egyptian film director challenged authority, rejected easy answers, and remained rooted in lived experience

Hazem Massoud

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