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A Palestinian family looks down from their heavily damaged home in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 7 November 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
Politics

In Gaza, bombed-out homes become death traps

When Israeli bombardment and ground incursions intensified in late June, the Badr family was forced to flee their three-storey home in Jabalia,…

Salem Al Rayyes 08 December , 2025
Girls attending school in the city of Tunis in Tunisia on 20 May 2016. Shutterstock
Culture & Social Affairs

Why Tunisian women are outpacing men in education

In much of the developing world, the lack of girls in education has long been a problem that has vexed policymakers. But in one north African country…

Asmahan Al-Sha’abouni 08 December , 2025
Syrians celebrate their first year without Assad
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Syrians celebrate their first year without Assad

Fares Garabet 07 December , 2025
Opinion

A once-forgotten Syria now teems with possibility

Only a year ago, Syria was a forgotten land, teetering on the edge of time; a rusted regime and a heavy shadow. A people endlessly drained and a…

Ibrahim Hamidi 07 December , 2025
Trump, Sharaa, and the future of Syria Lina Jaradat
Politics

Trump, Sharaa, and the future of Syria

It was during US President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East in May that he met Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, after being urged to by Saudi…

Robert Ford 07 December , 2025
Why the US is asking Lebanon for its bomb back AFP / Al Majalla
Politics

Why the US is asking Lebanon for its bomb back

On 23 November 2025, an Israeli F-15 launched GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs at Hezbollah's military commander in Beirut. The strike killed its target,…

Michael Horowitz 07 December , 2025
Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian President's chief of staff, looks on during a press conference in Kyiv on 27 August 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sergei CHUZAVKOV / AFP
Profiles

Andriy Yermak: Zelensky's chief of staff 'resigns' amid corruption scandal

With negotiations over Ukraine’s future entering a critical stage, the surprise resignation of Andriy Yermak, the head of Kyiv’s negotiating team and…

Con Coughlin 07 December , 2025
The six noble gases countries are fighting over Al Majalla
Business & Economy

The six noble gases countries are fighting over

In the race for 21st-century technological dominance, most of the talk about resources has focused on critical minerals, by which most assume these…

Abdulfattah Khattab 07 December , 2025
Opinion

2026 will test the foundations of 'the new Syria'

As the anniversary of the Assad regime’s collapse approaches, Syria stands at a moment that invites both celebration and sober reflection. The fall…

Haid Haid 07 December , 2025
Spanish poet Miriam Reyes Wikimedia Commons
Culture & Social Affairs

Spanish poet Miriam Reyes on escaping the prison of the page

It was a moment of both recognition and resonance when Spanish poet Miriam Reyes found out recently that she had been awarded the 2025 National…

Mohammed Al-Bittari 06 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
Pete Reynolds
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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