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Lebanese abstract artist Saloua Choucair and one of her works
Culture & Social Affairs

Saloua Raouda Choucair: a century of abstraction

In the lap of a pine-covered mountain, just below the town of Ras el-Metn in Mount Lebanon, lies the museum of the late Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda…

Mohamed abi Samra 24 August , 2025
Moazzam Begg, Senior Director at CAGE International, addresses pro-Palestinian activists gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice on July 4, 2025, in London. Mark Kerrison / Getty
Profiles

Moazzam Begg: the British activist protesting genocide

When police in London arrested over 460 people during a recent pro-Palestine gathering in Parliament Square, those detained included Moazzam Begg, 57…

Con Coughlin 24 August , 2025
Fghters from Bedouin tribes in western Sweida city on July 19, 2025. AFP
Politics

Sweida is a test case for competing visions for Syria

The recent outbreak of violence in Syria’s southern Sweida province—the birthplace of Syria’s revolution and a Druze-majority region that has managed…

Caroline Rose 24 August , 2025
New details emerge on Kamal Jumblatt's assassination Al Majalla
Documents & Memoirs

New details emerge on Kamal Jumblatt's assassination

The story of the Syrian army’s entry into Lebanon remains a subject of controversy, even two decades after it withdrew in 2005. It is significant…

Ibrahim Hamidi 23 August , 2025
Opinion

Why some wars are quickly resolved and others left to linger

Two distinct approaches to conflict management can be observed in today's modern conflicts, marking a drastic departure from the principles the…

Houssam Itani 23 August , 2025
An M23 soldier holds damaged weapons in the Stade de l’Unité (Unity Stadium) in Goma, DRC on May 13, 2025. Jospin Mwisha / AFP
Business & Economy

Tariffs and minerals: when trade and resource wars collide

A new 21st-century geo-economic battle is heating up over rare earths, with China using its advantage in trade talks with the United States and the…

Mohamed Sharki 23 August , 2025
Kamal Jumblatt’s letter to Assad days before he was killed Al Majalla
Documents & Memoirs

Kamal Jumblatt’s letter to Assad days before he was killed

On 2 March 1977, just nine days before his assassination, Lebanese politician and leader of the National Movement (NM) Kamal Jumblatt addressed a…

Al Majalla - London 23 August , 2025
Henrique Schneider on literature's power to hold a torch for justice Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

Henrique Schneider on literature's power to hold a torch for justice

Two-thirds of the way into a trilogy covering the widespread rights abuses of Brazil’s darkest chapter, Henrique Schneider says he wants to highlight…

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 22 August , 2025
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men stand at one of the gates to the Haram Al Sharif during the annual Tisha B'Av commemorating the destruction of ancient Jewish temples some 2,000 years ago. Menahem Kahana / AFP
Politics

Once shrugged off, Al Aqsa violations now irk more Israelis

Every year, religiously-observant Jews commemorate Tisha b’Av, the date associated with the destruction of the Temple Mount 2,000 years ago by the…

Daniel Seidemann 22 August , 2025
Ishag Abdullah Khatir, 30, from Geneina in West Sudan, whose leg was amputated after RSF soldiers shot him, poses for a portrait on April 20, 2024, in Adre, Chad. Getty
Politics

Foreign meddling in Sudan's war is only part of the problem

Of all the 21st century’s wars, Sudan’s civil war is among the most vicious. More than 150,000 have been killed and 13 million displaced since April…

Sergey Eledinov 22 August , 2025
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As Sharaa steps into the White House, Syria steps into the US orbit

09 November 2025

In what could be a historic turning point in US-Syria relations, the new government in Damascus will likely join the international coalition against the Islamic State (IS)

Subhi Franjieh
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Politics

Zohran Mamdani becomes first Muslim mayor of New York

04 November 2025

The 34-year-old socialist's win is a seismic development, proving that tax rises for the rich to fund social programmes, and unwavering advocacy for Palestinian rights, are politically viable stances

Tarek Rashed
Ewan White
Politics

How Trump reshaped the world

03 November 2025

Al Majalla examines key developments in the US and across the globe less than a year into Trump's second presidential term

Al Majalla - London
Details of the remains of Palestinians released by Israel are shown on a screen in order to help family members to identify their relatives, at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 18 October 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
Politics

Closure denied: the agonising search for Gaza's vanished

05 November 2025

Those who are able to bury their dead are among the lucky. For others, not knowing the fate of their missing loved ones or receiving mutilated corpses impossible to identify adds insult to injury.

Salem Al Rayyes
A guest walks in front of a work entitled 'Out of Chaos XIII' by artist Daniel Crews-Chubb at the Frieze London 2025 exhibition in London on 15 October 2025. HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Frieze London 2025: art as algorithm

02 November 2025

Digital art is rewriting the rules of the field, revising the meaning of authenticity, and recalibrating the boundary between virtual and physical. Have we lost something here?

Fai Nasser

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