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Billions deposited by the Lebanese people haven’t disappeared but won’t be found simply by asking. Al Majalla
Business & Economy

Restoring Lebanon's depositors' frozen funds needs an international court, not the IMF

A draft law on the reform and reorganisation of banks, prepared by the Banking Control Commission (BCC) and the Bank of Lebanon, was recently…

Toufic Chanbour 29 December , 2023
Opinion

Israel issues most direct warning to Hezbollah yet

The prospect of the Gaza conflict escalating into a wider regional war has increased significantly following Israel’s explicit threat this week to…

Con Coughlin 29 December , 2023
The lives of Palestinian Christians only 76 kilometres from Gaza Eduardo Ramon/Majalla
Politics

The lives of Palestinian Christians only 76 kilometres from Gaza

Jerusalem - At the church of the Nativity, where Christians believe Jesus was born, Palestinian Christians from Bethlehem have gathered for a Bible…

Ahmed Maher 28 December , 2023
Since the Taliban took power in August 2021, the movement has violated the rights of women and girls, according to Amnesty International. In the photo, a Taliban member stands guard in front of a line of women waiting to receive aid AP
Politics

Afghanistan braces for another difficult year ahead

The twin crises in Gaza and Ukraine have turned the attention of the world away from another festering issue, that of Afghanistan, which has almost…

Omer Onhon 28 December , 2023
AI is creating more emissions, but it is also being used to find “smart” solutions to fight climate change and offset the cutting-edge tech’s growing contribution to it. Dave Murray
Science & Technology

The AI revolution is leaving a very real carbon footprint

The rapid ascent of artificial intelligence does not come without costs, including those it levies on the environment, as its technology rapidly…

Marcelle Nasr 28 December , 2023
Gaza's children need more than social media likes
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Gaza's children need more than social media likes

Fares Garabet 28 December , 2023
In an interview with Al Majalla, Al-Bazai opens up about his identity crisis upon returning from the US and his need to reassert his belonging to Saudi Arabia.
Culture & Social Affairs

Saudi intellectual Saad Al-Bazai on modernity and national identity

Saudi literary critic and intellectual Saad Al-Bazai was born in 1953 in the northern Saudi city of Al Qurayyat. He moved to Riyadh and then to the…

Hoda Salim Al-Muhithawi 28 December , 2023
Opinion

The hard truth about the war in Gaza

One of the most distressing possibilities of Israel's war on Gaza is that the profound suffering it has inflicted on the Palestinian people may not…

Houssam Itani 28 December , 2023
Shipping lanes vital to global economy Diana Estefana Rubio
Infographics

Shipping lanes vital to global economy

International trade is coordinated through numerous shipping lanes worldwide. According to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), about 90%…

Al Majalla - London 27 December , 2023

Lebanese and Israelis remain displaced as cross-border strikes intensify

December, 2023
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This picture taken from a position along the border in northern Israel on December 26, 2023 shows smoke billowing in the southern Lebanese village of Marwahin following Israeli bombardment amid ongoing cross-border tensions.

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AFP

Boys play in the yard of a school where displaced Lebanese families from villages near the southern border took refuge in Tyre city, on October 19, 2023.

AFP
AFP

Israelis evacuated from northern areas near the Lebanese border due to ongoing cross-border tensions lift placards during a rally near the northern Amiad Kibbutz, demanding to return home on December 26, 2023.

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AFP

A soldier stands near a car destroyed in a strike by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement in Kibbutz Manara in northern Israel near the Lebanon border, on November 27, 2023.

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AFP

A picture taken in the southern Lebanese village of Meiss El-Jabbal, near the border with Israel, shows the rubble of a destroyed building following Israeli bombardment on December 26, 2023, amid ongoing cross-border tensions.

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AFP

Israelis evacuated from northern areas near the Lebanese border due to ongoing cross-border tensions, lift Israeli and a Druze flag during a rally near the northern Amiad Kibbutz, demanding to return home on December 26, 2023.

AFP
AFP

Members of a family that was displaced from a village along the border with Israel in southern Lebanon sit on a mattress on the floor in an empty flat in the southern Lebanese village of Hasbaya on October 26, 2023.

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AFP

Israelis evacuated from northern areas near the Lebanese border due to ongoing cross-border tensions, lift placards during a rally near the northern Amiad Kibbutz, demanding to return home on December 26, 2023.

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A US Navy sailor directs a Eurocopter AS-332 Super Puma helicopter on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which is supporting US military operations in the war with Iran on 16 August 2026. US. Navy/REUTERS
Politics

US troops leave Iraq, but double down in the region

30, Sep 2026

Why 30 September should be understood less as a US exit from the Middle East than as the end of a particular model of American intervention

Caroline Rose
Eduardo Ramón
Documents & Memoirs

Exclusive interview with the man who caught Israeli spy Eli Cohen

30, Sep 2026

Ibrahim Hamidi spent years following the story of Mossad's 'spy in Damascus ', but some secrets remained untold. He then learned that the man who could answer them was still alive

Ibrahim Hamidi
Moroccan Foreign Minister Bourita & Israeli Foreign Minister Sa'ar agreed to advance their
relationship on security, trade, and regional integration on 16 September 2026. @USAmbUN/X
Politics

Morocco expands ties with Israel: why now?

28, Sep 2026

After months of behind‑the‑scenes talks, Rabat and Tel Aviv are deepening ties under a new phase of the existing Abraham Accords, with Western Sahara being dangled as an incentive

Mohamed Sharki
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping view portraits of former US presidents at the White House, Washington, DC, on 24 September 2026. Reuters
Politics

US-China summit: did Xi get what he wanted?

29, Sep 2026

Why the Chinese president's visit to Washington could be considered a success, despite no big movement on trade, Taiwan, and technology

Charbel Barakat
Soldiers from the Ethiopian National Defence Force chant slogans after completing their training at an officers' training ground 70 kilometres northeast of the city of Gondar, Ethiopia, on 14 September 2021. AFP
Politics

Turmoil in Tigray: the view from Ethiopia's neighbours

30, Sep 2026

While many would like to see Addis Ababa distracted, they also worry about a refugee spillover should a civil war break out. It might be a case of 'be careful what you wish for'

Sergey Eledinov

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