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Lebanese Armed Forces personnel in the Al-Mafilha area of Meiss Al Jabal, a town in Lebanon's Nabatieh Governorate. Houssam Shbaro / Anadolu via Getty Images
Politics

Don’t discount the Lebanese Army in a fight with Hezbollah

In his inaugural speech in January, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said the Lebanese state should regain its monopoly over the use of force, to…

Bilal Y. Saab 31 July , 2025
An uphill battle worth battling for Fares Garabet
Cartoons

An uphill battle worth battling for

Fares Garabet 31 July , 2025
A currency exchange shop in the Syrian capital Damascus, on April 16, 2025. AFP
Business & Economy

Towards a structural plan to drive development in Syria

Just over half a year old, the new Syrian state has already accomplished much. That Syrians now enjoy freedom of speech unlike anything they could…

Hussein al-Sharaa 31 July , 2025
The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 27, 2025. The Trump administration on June 30, 2025, accused Harvard of violating the civil rights of its Jewish and Israeli students. Rick Friedman / AFP
Politics

Academic own goal: Trump’s war on universities weakens the US

US President Donald Trump’s battle with American universities stepped up a gear in early July when the president of the University of Virgina…

Christopher Phillips 31 July , 2025
Al Majalla's Book Watch
Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla's Book Watch

The Arab world has a vibrant and rich literary scene. Al Majalla picks out some choice titles in our fortnightly round-up of the latest Arabic books,…

Khodr Al Agha 31 July , 2025
Opinion

Caution needed: stepping through the Syrian minefield

The final communique of Syria’s National Dialogue Conference in February envisioned that the country would become a ‘state of citizenship’ within…

Alia Mansour 30 July , 2025
An Iraqi fisherman casts his net in the Euphrates River, which passes through the city of Nasiriyah the capital of the Iraqi Dhi Qar Governorate on January 2, 2024. Asaad Niazi / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Nasiriyah and Iraq’s rural-urban divide

When construction of the city of Nasiriyah began in southern Iraq in the late 19th century, it inflicted a lasting wound. That wound—the fraught,…

Marwan Yassin Al Dulaimi 30 July , 2025
An Israeli battle tank deployed at a position along the border with the Gaza Strip and southern Israel on July 29, 2025. Jack Guez / AFP
Politics

The latest ‘corridor’ helps the Israeli military fragment Gaza

In the second week of July, Hamas announced its rejection of Israeli withdrawal maps proposed in ceasefire and prisoner-exchange negotiations by the…

Salem Al Rayyes 30 July , 2025

Humanitarian Aid in Gaza and more from around the world

Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP
Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP

Hidaya, a 31-year-old Palestinian mother, carries her sick 18-month-old son Mohammed al-Mutawaq, who is also displaying signs of malnutrition, inside their tent at the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 24, 2025.

Hussein FALEH/AFP
Hussein FALEH/AFP

Iranian Shiite Muslims arrive on foot in Basra via the Shalamcheh border crossing, to take part in the Arbaeen pilgrimage in the Iraqi city of Karbala, on July 25, 2025.

SANA /AFP
SANA /AFP

Syrian Red Crescent trucks carrying humanitarian aid arriving at Busra al-Sham in Syria's southern Daraa province before crossing the buffer zone into Sweida province.

BASHAR TALEB/AFP
BASHAR TALEB/AFP

People gather as a C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft drops humanitarian aid on the northern Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025.

Athit Perawongmetha/REUTERS
Athit Perawongmetha/REUTERS

A Buddhist monk sits next to his dog in a bomb shelter after Thailand and Cambodia exchanged heavy artillery amid their worst fighting in more than a decade, in Surin, Thailand, July 25, 2025.

ANWAR AMRO/AFP
ANWAR AMRO/AFP

A mourner holds up a rose and a portrait of renowned Lebanese musician and composer Ziad Rahbani as crowds gathered outside Khoury Hospital in Beirut's central Hamra district to bid him farewell before his funeral procession.

Alexander Ermochenko/REUTERS
Alexander Ermochenko/REUTERS

Participants release balloons during a ceremony held at the Alley of Angels on the day commemorating children killed in the region in the course of Russia-Ukraine military conflict, in Donetsk, July 27, 2025.

Eugene Hoshiko/AP
Eugene Hoshiko/AP

Participants carry a portable shrine, or mikoshi, into the sea during a purification rite at the annual Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival at Kurihama, Yokosuka city, south of Tokyo Sunday, July 27, 2025.

Serhat Cetinkaya/Getty Images
Serhat Cetinkaya/Getty Images

A green circular crop field surrounded by golden wheat plains, where harvesters line up for collection during the final phase of the season at Altinova Agricultural Enterprise in Kadinhani district of Konya, Turkiye on July 22, 2025

YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP
YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP

Undressed mannequins are tied together and left behind as a clothing market closes in Jakarta on July 26, 2025.

Gaza's man-made famine: a visual breakdown Al Majalla - London
Infographics

Gaza's man-made famine: a visual breakdown

In Gaza, where nearly 60,000 people have been killed since October 2023 due to Israeli military operations, half a million individuals now stand on…

Al Majalla - London 29 July , 2025
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Politics

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
AFP-Reuters-Eduardo Ramon
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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