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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
Opinion

Culture takes over from the law after Muslim Brotherhood ban

When the White House proscribed chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood last month, it triggered debates within the movement about how best to respond in…

Abdullah Al-Judaya 11 December , 2025
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Business & Economy

The tiny waterway that put the global economy into a chokehold

18 April 2026

Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players

Steve Hewitt
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Politics

Glimpses of Bush's Iraq debacle appear in Trump's Iran war

15 April 2026

The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.

Robert Ford
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Business & Economy

The US plan to turn Syria into an oil transit hub

16 April 2026

Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.

Al Majalla - London
An Iranian woman flashes the V-sign as she takes part in a rally to pay tribute to women killed during war, in Tehran on 17 April 2026. AFP
Politics

Has Iran's ideology actually hardened?

16 April 2026

The change in tone and presentation of policy isn't a fundamental redirection, but rather the consolidation of a system under pressure

Alex Vatanka
Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed holds two awards during the opening ceremony of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, late on 14 September 2010. AMR AHMAD / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Daoud Abdel Sayed and the cinema of quiet rebellion

16 April 2026

Throughout his career, the renowned Egyptian film director challenged authority, rejected easy answers, and remained rooted in lived experience

Hazem Massoud

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