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Damascus and Kabul: how great powers are defeated

What connects Damascus’s announcement of an agreement with Moscow to regulate Russia’s military presence in Syria with Kabul’s commemoration of the…

Ibrahim Hamidi 16 August , 2026
Iran's new war cabinet is really an old one Al Majalla
Politics

Iran's new war cabinet is really an old one

Within 48 hours this week, Iran filled six of the most important posts in its battered military and security establishment. Ali Abdollahi became…

Alex Vatanka 16 August , 2026
Preserving Amazigh heritage: from oral tradition to AI Lina Jaradat
Culture & Social Affairs

Preserving Amazigh heritage: from oral tradition to AI

In many Amazigh homes across Algeria, children would gather at night around a grandmother or another elder to listen to tales of heroes and legends,…

Noureddine Bessaadi 16 August , 2026
US political commentator Tucker Carlson speaks during the last day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 18 July 2024. ANGELA WEISS / AFP
Profiles

Tucker Carlson: America’s right-wing insurgent-in-chief

Former Fox News presenter and right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson has become one of the biggest thorns in Israel’s side across the Atlantic. His…

Kamal Alam 16 August , 2026
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Science & Technology

The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

One Peptide has recently transformed medicine. Drugs based on glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a hormone released by the gut after a meal, began as…

The Economist 15 August , 2026
Why cotton fibres could be key in the global arms race Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

Why cotton fibres could be key in the global arms race

Long a mainstay of the textile industry, cotton is associated more with towels and bedsheets than with war and armaments, but as the 21st century…

Abdulfattah Khattab 15 August , 2026
Syria's foreign minister, Asaad al-Shaibani, meets with Taliban foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, on the sidelines of an OIC meeting in Istanbul on 21 June 2025. AFP
Politics

Can the Taliban implement the 'Syrian model'?

It has been five years since the US-led NATO invasion of Afghanistan came to an end on 15 August 2021. In the run-up, the Taliban had already…

Kamal Alam 14 August , 2026
Al Majalla's Film Watch Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla's Film Watch

Every month, Al Majalla grabs the popcorn and settles back to watch a selection of the latest films (and occasionally a golden oldie) before offering…

Wael Said 14 August , 2026
Opinion

Trump's Gaza peace plan appears to be dead on arrival

When US President Donald Trump announced his new plan drawn up by his Board of Peace to end the conflict in Gaza, he declared that the agreement was…

Con Coughlin 13 August , 2026
Trump and Mojtaba: the Hormuz negotiations Gregori Saavedra
Politics

Trump and Mojtaba: the Hormuz negotiations

With US President Donald Trump’s grand objectives for his war on Iran unrealised, he now appears to be trying to negotiate a way out. While months of…

Al Majalla - London 13 August , 2026
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Politics

Trump's midterm loss opens a window for Iran diplomacy

11, Nov 2026

Both Tehran and Washington have powerful incentives to resolve the conflict through negotiations, but actors on all sides have reasons to derail these efforts

Alex Vatanka
The UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey carries the traditional red budget box as he leaves Downing Street in London on 28 October 2026. Reuters
Business & Economy

Britain's debt squeeze tests the pound’s power

11, Nov 2026

Rising borrowing costs and persistent inflation are narrowing the UK's fiscal room for manoeuvre, exposing the limits of monetary independence

Abdulfattah Khattab
Crew members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) navy ship Qi Jiguang wave as their ship prepares to dock on 2 August 2026. JUNI KRISWANTO / AFP
Politics

China eyes greater security role in the Red Sea

12, Nov 2026

Beijing has been expanding its base in Djibouti, the tiny state that sits opposite Yemen across the Bab al-Mandab Strait. With numerous other states also in play, this is a region to watch

Charbel Barakat
Pep Boatella
Science & Technology

Climate change is redrawing national borders

10, Nov 2026

Whether it is rivers, glaciers, or sea-level submergence, the implications of rising temperatures are becoming an increasingly urgent issue for states

Alaa Emara
Culture & Social Affairs

Five Arab novels that paint an AI-dominated future

10, Nov 2026

From machines that develop human emotions to societies governed by artificial intelligence, Arab novelists explore the promises and perils of a radically transformed future

Ibrahim Adel

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