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Ahmed al-Sharaa has proven his doubters wrong and learned from Iraq and Libya to keep Syria from splintering and dividing. AFP
Politics

How Syria's al-Sharaa learned from the failures of Libya and Iraq

It has been a year since the fall of the former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and the Levantine doomsayers who predicted that it was “Assad or…

Kamal Alam 14 December , 2025
A giant campaign billboard rotates showing Likud candidate Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Labour Party leader Isaac Herzog (L) in March 2015. Today, Netanyahu is asking Herzog to grant him a presidential pardon. Gil Cohen Magen / AFP
Politics

Clemency for retirement: the deal shaking Israel

In what might be the most critical moment in Israel’s political history, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands on the brink of a judicial…

Mohammed Najib 13 December , 2025
A Russian navy ship docked at the port of the Sudanese city of Port Sudan on 27 April 2021. Ibrahim Ishaq / AFP
Politics

Why a Russian base on Sudan’s coast spells trouble for Egypt

Cairo is watching in fury as Sudanese army authorities in Khartoum and their peers in Moscow dust off a 2020 agreement to turn Port Sudan into Russia…

Amr Emam 13 December , 2025
Opinion

Trump takes aim at ‘weak and decaying’ Europe over Ukraine

The deepening rift between the US and Europe over the Trump administration’s attempts to end the Ukraine war are threatening to cause the greatest…

Con Coughlin 12 December , 2025
Government data is being made accessible, which in turn is helping companies and state agencies design new products and services, improving efficiency and reducing costs. Al Majalla
Business & Economy

Commercialising government data: a new investment opportunity

Government data is no longer just a vehicle for transparency—it is currency. Companies that can transform this raw data into actionable insights will…

Hatem Faried 12 December , 2025
Maher al-Assad with his wife Manal al-Jadaan on the beach.
Documents & Memoirs

Revealed: new photos of Bashar al-Assad’s notorious brother Maher

Al Majalla is releasing exclusive photographs of Maher al-Assad, who commanded Syria’s Republican Guard and its elite Fourth Armoured Division before…

Al Majalla - London 12 December , 2025
A visitor takes a picture of the painting La Chambre de Van Gogh a Arles, 1888 (Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles) at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, France. Stephane Mahe/Reuters
Culture & Social Affairs

Three artists whose names became entwined with places

Graced by the presence of remarkable strangers, some cities have subsequently found their names inextricably linked to these fleeting visitors…

Ismail Ghazaly 12 December , 2025
'No, I said I wanted your piece - not your peace' Fares Garabet
Cartoons

'No, I said I wanted your piece - not your peace'

Fares Garabet 11 December , 2025
Opening a new door: Trump, the Gulf, and ‘America First’
Politics

Opening a new door: Trump, the Gulf, and ‘America First’

US President Donald Trump's first presidential term (2017-21) was not simply a shift in the trajectory of American foreign policy; it marked a…

Abdullah F. Alrebh 11 December , 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Moscow on 2 December 2025. Ambassador Sylvie Bermann thinks Donald Trump will not drive a wedge between Moscow and Beijing. AFP
Politics

French diplomat Sylvie Bermann: Trump won’t divide Russia and China

French diplomat Sylvie Bermann first encountered China as a young student at the twilight of the Cultural Revolution in 1976-77. Two decades later,…

Elie Kossaifi 11 December , 2025
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A picture of Farid al-Madhan, known as "Caesar," wearing a blue robe in the US Congress.
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Politics

Syria's new post-sanctions test

22 December 2025

Damascus finally gets breathing room after the US repealed its draconian Caesar sanctions, but it can't exhale just yet. Al Majalla explains why.

Haid Haid
Opinion

Israeli gas and the crafting of a 'new Middle East'

22 December 2025

The US is poised to use Israeli gas as a lever to keep Iran on the backfoot following its regional setback, and it could even use it to undercut Russia's economy

Ibrahim Hamidi
Women and children at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to el-Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, in January 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Zakaria
Politics

After el-Fasher: the trajectory of war in Sudan

16 November 2025

Washington seems to have changed its tone after the RSF committed atrocities in October, putting increasing pressure on the foreign backers of a paramilitary that now controls Darfur. What next?

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb
Despite a new president, a new prime minister, a new government, and a new central bank governor, what has actually changed after Lebanon's economic collapse? Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

A state in crisis: Lebanon’s struggle to restore financial stability 

20 December 2025

Following the appointment of a new president, Lebanon has struggled to come to terms with the deep-rooted challenges of its financial collapse

Toufic Chanbour
Culture & Social Affairs

This year in film: landmark moments across platforms

22 December 2025

Al Majalla looks back at a memorable and haunting year in film, with Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab one of 2025's most powerful works

Wael Said

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