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Students for Gaza, quirky art and the northern lights

May, 2024
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Peter Byrne/Getty

The aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, glow at Crosby Beach, Liverpool, Merseyside on May 10, 2024.

Brandon Bell / AFP
Brandon Bell / AFP

A graduate student protests the war in Gaza after walking out of commencement at the DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium on May 11, 2024, in Austin, Texas.

REUTERS/Ahmed Saad
REUTERS/Ahmed Saad

Iraqi barber Hussein Falih, 31, crafts an artwork of a tiger using his client's hair at his shop in Baghdad, Iraq, May 8, 2024.

REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Russian service members march in columns past an honour guard during a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 79th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2024.

REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

A drone view shows a car on a flooded street in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, May 10, 2024.

REUTERS/Kim Soo-hyeon
REUTERS/Kim Soo-hyeon

Buddhist believers hold lanterns during a Lotus Lantern parade in celebration of the upcoming birthday of Buddha in Seoul, South Korea, May 12, 2024.

LUIS TATO / AFP
LUIS TATO / AFP

A woman who has been displaced from her home due to heavy floods rolls a can of water at an inundated area next to a camp for displaced people in Garissa on May 8, 2024.

U.S. President Joe Biden is applauded by union members after signing orders that increase tariffs on China to promote American investments and jobs in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 14, 2024, in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP
Business & Economy

Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs

Just over six years ago, when Donald Trump first announced tariffs on Chinese goods, it was as if a bomb had gone off. American stocks fell sharply…

The Economist 15 May , 2024
Acute food insecurity surges worldwide Diana Estefanía Rubio
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Acute food insecurity surges worldwide

In 2023, 281.6 million people, or 21.5% of people in 59 food-crisis countries, faced high acute food insecurity, nearly 24 million more than in 2022…

Al Majalla - London 14 May , 2024
Will Israel pursue peace or chase the illusion of victory? Nesma Moharam
Politics

Will Israel pursue peace or chase the illusion of victory?

In the early days of the war that broke out on 7 October, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the conflict to come was a “second war of…

Michael Horowitz 14 May , 2024
Sawsan Al-Bahiti during her participation in Zarqa Al-Yamamah in Saudi Arabia
Culture & Social Affairs

Sawsan Al-Bahiti on her participation in Zarqa Al-Yamamah

Soprano Sawsan Al-Bahiti’s battle to bring opera to Saudi Arabia is ongoing but going well. While Europe has been sold on the genre she loves since…

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 14 May , 2024
Members of a Lebanese family displaced from a village near the Israeli border to the town of Hasbaya on 26 October 2023. AFP
Politics

The differing fortunes of those displaced from southern Lebanon

Seven months after Hezbollah and Israel increased their attacks on one another across the Israeli-Lebanese border, the Lebanese government has still…

Badia Fahs 14 May , 2024
Opinion

The demonisation of students exposes hypocritical stances

There are multiple attempts to discredit student protests on university campuses calling for the liberation of Palestine and calling on their…

Samer Abou Hawwach 13 May , 2024
Biden-Netanyahu 'disagreement' over Rafah
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Biden-Netanyahu 'disagreement' over Rafah

Fares Garabet 13 May , 2024
Erdoğan's efforts to tame rampant inflation have only scratched the surface of its economic problems, which require deeper and more sustainable reform. So far, that appears unattainable. Ewan White
Business & Economy

Does Erdoğan have a magic fix for Turkey's economic slump?

It seems a long time since Turkey’s economic growth expanded at around 8% per year in the early days of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rule. These…

Sharif Mohammad 13 May , 2024
From demands to concessions: Hamas's evolving positions since 7 October Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

From demands to concessions: Hamas's evolving positions since 7 October

The beginning of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel were announced by Mohammad Deif, head of its military wing—the Al-Qassam Brigades—in an audio…

Al Majalla - London 13 May , 2024
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Politics

The Houthis: the new Hezbollah?

24, Sep 2026

Just as Iran used Hezbollah to expand its influence in the Levant, it is now using the Houthis to give it leverage in Bab al-Mandab and the Red Sea amid its war with the US

Al Majalla - London
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Culture & Social Affairs

Backlash over Macklemore ban shows major US culture shift

16, Sep 2026

The American rapper's removal from Ed Sheeran's tour over his 'Free Palestine' speech and the British singer's meek rebuttal sparked an uproar on social media

Samer Abou Hawwach
A rebel fighter seen behind a Kingdom of Libya flag near the front line along the western entrance gate of Ajdabiyah, on 18 April 2011. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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A tale of two Libya's: internal division meets external unity

19, Sep 2026

In Libya today, things have never been better. They have also never been worse. Just depends on who you ask

Tarek Megerisi
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Francesca Albanese: the Palestine question is a global one

16, Sep 2026

In an interview with Al Majalla, the UN Special Rapporteur says the backlash against her for speaking out against Israel's genocide in Gaza reveals much about the current international order

Elie Kossaifi
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi shares a moment with Russian President Vladimir Putin as Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on during day two of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India, on 13 September 2026. REUTERS
Politics

Only China, India, and Russia can end the Iran war

15, Sep 2026

Washington needs its rivals to create peace on its behalf

Amir Handjani

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