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Opinion

Joining the dots: Saudi Arabia, the two-state solution, and Syria

There is a clear and deliberate connection between Saudi Arabia’s co-chairing of an international conference in New York to revive the two-state…

Ibrahim Hamidi 28 July , 2025
Israel's parliament has voted to declare the West Bank as Israeli sovereign territory. It is non-binding, but its significance is huge. Eiko Ojala
Politics

The prophecy and the curse: Israel and West Bank annexation

On 23 July 2025, the Israeli Knesset passed a political declaration calling for the imposition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank,…

Ziad Al Halabi 28 July , 2025
On May 14, 1948, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (standing under a huge portrait of Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, proclaims the establishment of Israel. Getty
Politics

Those who see plans for a ‘Greater Israel’ are not the first to do so

Following the recent 12-day war between Iran and Israel, the Turkish state television channel TRT World aired an in-depth report claiming that Israel…

Louis Fishman 28 July , 2025
The UK's National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell, who has a track record of helping enemy combatants agree terms. Shutterstock
Profiles

Jonathan Powell: the UK’s ultimate fixer flies into world hotspots

Together with Peter Mandelson, the British ambassador in Washington, D.C, Jonathan Powell is the latest big name from the last Labour government to…

Con Coughlin 27 July , 2025
Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov attends a meeting on the development strategy of the Russian Navy submarine forces held by President Vladimir Putin in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region, Russia July 24, 2025. Alexander Kazakov/Sputnik via Reuters
Politics

What Russia learned from the 12-day Israel-Iran war

Following the recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran, military analysts around the world will be assessing effectiveness of combatants’ decisions,…

Anton Mardasov 27 July , 2025
Opinion

Ukrainians’ patience with President Zelenskyy stretches thin

Ukrainian popular support for wartime leader President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has begun to look frayed in recent days, with people protesting against…

Con Coughlin 26 July , 2025
The King Abdullah Financial Centre (KAFD) in Riyadh on December 1, 2024. Reuters
Business & Economy

Building the future: Gulf states pave the way to diversification

Across the Middle East, scaffolding and steel are becoming the most visible signs of the region’s economic transformation. From the coastlines of the…

Neil Quilliam 26 July , 2025
Employees count bundles of Yemeni Riyal banknotes at the Central Bank of Yemen in Sanaa on January 7, 2020. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
Politics

Politicising Yemen’s currency: new Houthi notes part of a pattern

Barely a day goes by without Yemen’s Houthi group being in the news. Earlier this month, it attacked and sank two sea-going vessels. Then a naval…

Anwar Al-Ansi 26 July , 2025
a mural depicting Lebanese Druze politician Walid Jumblatt (bottom, R) and Syrian Druze nationalist leader Sultan al-Atrash, in the predominantly Druze city of Beit Jann on November 16, 2023. John MacDougall/AFP
Politics

Druze political figures who transformed Syrian history

Upon entering Damascus following its liberation from Ottoman rule in 1918, Emir Faisal Ibn al-Hussein announced that appointments to government…

Sami Moubayed 25 July , 2025
Iran's economic hopes are closely aligned to its political decisions. Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

Iran’s economic potential still relies on reform and stability

During the 12-day war with Israel in June, Iran’s military and nuclear infrastructure suffered damage that is likely to cost billions of dollars to…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 25 July , 2025
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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
Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Barbara Leaf on being the first US official to meet Ahmed Sharaa

10 November 2025

On Monday, the Syrian president shook hands with Trump at the White House. Speaking to Al Majalla, a former State Department official explains why this is a moment she could have never imagined.

Ibrahim Hamidi
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
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
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

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