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Palestinians walk past a destroyed building at a makeshift market in the Nuseirat refugee camp, located in the central Gaza Strip, on October 15, 2025, two days after a ceasefire came into effect. EYAD BABA / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

The destruction of Gaza’s markets is the destruction of memory

Before the war, Gaza’s traditional markets were much more than mere venues for trade; they were spaces where people crossed paths, where the…

Houssam Marouf 05 January , 2026
Engineering a modern state: 25 years of Saudi development
Business & Economy

Engineering a modern state: 25 years of Saudi development

When future historians look back on Saudi Arabia’s development, the launch of Vision 2030 in 2016 will stand out as a turning point—one that reshaped…

Abdullah F. Alrebh 05 January , 2026
A man walks past a mural depicting the Venezuelan national flag and reading "Long live the motherland!" in Caracas on 4 January 2026, a day after Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro was abducted by the US. Juan BARRETO / AFP
Politics

After Maduro: what next for Venezuela?

In a clinically decisive military operation in Venezuela in the early hours of Saturday morning, US special forces quickly disabled communications in…

Tarek Rashed 05 January , 2026
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Politics

Trump sets a devastating precedent in Venezuela

By attacking Venezuela, seizing its president, and promising to “run” the country indefinitely—all without any congressional or United Nations…

Michael Hirsh 04 January , 2026
Opinion

25 years into the 21st century shows a world transformed

The morning of 11 September 2001 began as an American tragedy, yet it proved a defining rupture in contemporary history. On that day, the United…

Ibrahim Hamidi 03 January , 2026
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures at a protest ahead of the Friday inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro for his third term, in Caracas, Venezuela, on 9 January 2025. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria
Profiles

Who is Venezuela opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado?

The 3 January US attack on Venezuela and subsequent capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro calls into question the future of the country—and…

Con Coughlin 03 January , 2026
Fire at Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela's largest military complex, is seen from a distance after a series of explosions in Caracas on 3 January 2026. AFP
Politics

The US captures Venezuela's president, Maduro. How did we get here?

The US has struck Venezuela and captured its President Nicolas Maduro, who has been taken out of the country, President Donald Trump said on Saturday…

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra 03 January , 2026
Richard N. Haass, Senior Counsellor, Centerview Partners, speaks onstage during the Reindustrialise Conference 2025 on 17 July 2025, in Detroit, Michigan. TASOS KATOPODIS / AFP
Politics

Richard Haass on America’s changing global role

For more than half a century, US diplomat Richard N. Haass has navigated Washington’s corridors of power, focusing on foreign policy. Today, he is an…

Ibrahim Hamidi 03 January , 2026
Men recover at the Karm al-Louz Hospital following an explosion at the Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque, in Homs, on 26 December 2025. OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP
Politics

Alawite protests return. But this time, they turn deadly.

Demonstrations by Alawite communities swept through Latakia, Tartus, Homs, and Hama again last week, just a month after a similar wave of protests…

Haid Haid 03 January , 2026
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends a meeting with business leaders in central London on January 28, 2025. BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP
Business & Economy

Brexit has deepened the UK economy’s flaws and dulled its strengths

COVID-19 was a gift to Brexiteers. After years of argument over the Vote Leave campaign’s irreconcilable promises, the pandemic finally redirected…

The Economist 03 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
Pete Reynolds
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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