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Opinion

If Israel defends minorities, why is it annihilating its own?

While Israel has been bombing Syria under the pretext of protecting Syria’s Druze minority, it has been simultaneously engaged in genocide in Gaza…

Houssam Itani 25 July , 2025
The president and the pillars of the global order Fares Garabet
Cartoons

The president and the pillars of the global order

Fares Garabet 24 July , 2025
Saudi writers are once again interested in the nomadic way of life and how that conflicts with life in an urban environment. Lina Jaradat
Culture & Social Affairs

Between nomadism and urban life in new Saudi novels

Since the dawn of humanity, the arts have been inseparably woven into the fabric of human existence. In literature, specific genres have been…

Ibrahim Adel 24 July , 2025
Opinion

Thou shalt not cross: Trump listens to Wall Street on the Fed

It is a short walk from the White House to the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. at the intersection of Constitution Avenue and 20th Street. Yet…

Khaled Kassar 24 July , 2025
Israel's Ministry of Finance estimated that the state's recent war costs stood at $31bn by the end of 2024, and could rise to $70bn by the end of 2025. Sebastien Thibault
Business & Economy

War is draining Israel’s economy… but the stock market is booming

Following the 12-day war between Israel and Iran—which ended with direct US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, a halt to hostilities, and the…

Souraya Chahine 24 July , 2025
Unravelling the factions, sheikhs, and fighters of Sweida Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Unravelling the factions, sheikhs, and fighters of Sweida

Sweida in southern Syria dominated world headlines this month for good reason. With more than 1,000 people killed in a little over a week, the…

Subhi Franjieh 24 July , 2025
A member of Syrian security forces stands near a vehicle carrying aid as they make their way to Sweida, at Bosra al-Sham town, near Deraa, Syria July 23, 2025. Karam al-Masri/Reuters
Politics

After Sweida: the path to peace just got more complicated

The violence in Sweida over recent days has illustrated not only Syria’s deep complexity but also the need for patience and prudent policymaking to…

Michael Harari 24 July , 2025
British diplomat Martin Griffiths was UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs until 2024 and has worked throughout the Middle East. Barbara Gibson
Politics

Martin Griffiths: let’s state facts, this is genocide in Gaza

For 40 years, Martin Griffiths has been flying into the world’s hotspots and trouble zones, speaking to those deemed unpalatable, trying to make…

Ibrahim Hamidi 23 July , 2025

Sudanese refugees returning home, Gaza hunger crisis and more

Hassan Jedi/Anadolu via Getty Images
Hassan Jedi/Anadolu via Getty Images

Displaced Palestinians sheltering at the UNRWA-affiliated Girls' Middle School held a protest against hunger calling for an immediate end to the ongoing attacks and urgent delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza Strip, on July 20, 2025

Mohamed Abd El Ghany/REUTERS
Mohamed Abd El Ghany/REUTERS

A child looks outside from a train window as Sudanese families displaced by conflict return home voluntarily from Egypt to Sudan, on a special train, Cairo July 21, 2025.

Gonzalo Fuentes/REUTERS 
Gonzalo Fuentes/REUTERS 

A group of migrants wait on the beach to reach an inflatable dinghy in an attempt to cross the English Channel to reach Britain, at the beach of Petit-Fort-Philippe in Gravelines, near Calais, France, July 17, 2025.

Kim Kyung-Hoon/REUTERS
Kim Kyung-Hoon/REUTERS

A visitor poses for a photo at Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, July 18, 2025.

Khaled Abdullah/REUTERS
Khaled Abdullah/REUTERS

Children react as protesters, predominantly Houthi supporters, demonstrate in solidarity with Palestinians, in Sanaa, Yemen July 18, 2025.

Wahyudi/AFP
Wahyudi/AFP

People ride a scooter past a wildfire in Karya Indah, Riau province on July 19, 2025.

Fredrik Lerneryd/AFP
Fredrik Lerneryd/AFP

Two jockeys stand next to their horses in a field in Maluti mountains ahead of the the annual horse racing event taking place on the first Saturday after King Letsie III's birthday in Semonkong, Lesotho, on July 19, 2025

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

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, speaks during Sunday morning mass at the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City on July 20, 2025.

Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP
Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP

A man harvests coffee during the end of the annual crop season at Lira farm in Santa Clara, Porciúncula district, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil on July 21, 2025.

Leo Correa/AP
Leo Correa/AP

Druze women from Syria gather to cross back into Syria at the Israeli-Syrian border, from the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams, Thursday, July 17, 2025.

Smoke rises from an Israeli strike as the sun sets behind destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip, on July 21, 2025. Jack Guez/AFP
Politics

One last chance, before the sun sets on a Palestinian State

Almost 77 years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 181, partitioning Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state. This is the…

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 22 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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