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The Banque du Liban’s reputation at home and abroad is in tatters. To restore it, the next governor should be exceptional – independently minded, able to say ‘no’ and perhaps even a foreigner. Al Majalla
Business & Economy

Lebanon needs an exceptional central bank governor for difficult times

Lebanon’s central bank, long at the centre of controversy, will arrive at a crossroads in the coming days, and the direction it takes will have…

Toufic Chanbour 18 July , 2023
Countries near the South China Sea will have to find a way to live with rising tensions where a breakthrough between Beijing and Washington remains unlikely. Reuters
Politics

Geopolitical tensions rise in the seas of China and Japan

The Chinese Ministry of Defence recently announced that Russian armed forces will participate in joint military exercises organised by China in the…

Khaled Hamadeh 17 July , 2023
Opinion

Dealing with allies can sometimes be harder than dealing with foes

Comments made by British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace suggesting that the UK and its international allies were "not Amazon" and that Kyiv needed to…

Ibrahim Hamidi 17 July , 2023
taken on March 08, 2019 People wave Algerian national flags in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. AFP
Politics

France and Algeria's 'special' relationship is being tested once again

The killing of a 17-year-old boy named Nahel – who was shot in the chest at close range by a police officer during a traffic inspection in Nanterre,…

Rabie Khreis 17 July , 2023
Sudanese blood continues to spill as conflict rages
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Sudanese blood continues to spill as conflict rages

Fares Garabet 17 July , 2023
Peruvian writer and Nobel literature prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa poses for a photograph during a ceremony of his induction into the Academie Francaise (French Academy), in Paris, February 9, 2023. AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Why Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa is interested in thinking, not trending

For almost a year, the world-renowned Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has been writing for the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, covering cultural…

Ibrahim Haj Abdi 17 July , 2023
Opinion

Iraq's false patriotism is fuelled by delusion

US Ambassador to Iraq Alina L. Romanowski has become a frequent subject of condemnations, denunciations and emotionally charged instigations on…

Rustum Mahmud 17 July , 2023
Opinion

Why Kundera's "Life is Elsewhere" resonates so deeply with Arabs

Milan Kundera – the renowned author who sadly passed away earlier this week – masterfully portrays the tragedy of his generation in his novel "Life…

Houssam Itani 16 July , 2023
Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces Delil Souleiman
Politics

Why adept Kurdish rule in Syria's northeast worries Ankara

The city of Qamishli in Syria’s northeast was on a high state of alert when Al Majalla arrived there on a recent field reporting trip.The Syrian…

Rustum Mahmud 16 July , 2023
War of words over Syria erupts in UN Security Council: What does it mean politically? MAJALLA
Documents & Memoirs

War of words over Syria erupts in UN Security Council: What does it mean politically?

Minimum understandings regarding Syria between the United States and its allies on the one hand, and Russia and its partners on the other hand, face…

Ibrahim Hamidi 15 July , 2023
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Documents & Memoirs

Exclusive interview with the man who caught Eli Cohen

30, Sep 2026

Ibrahim Hamidi spent years following the story of Mossad's 'spy in Damascus ', but some secrets remained untold. He then learned that the man who could answer them was still alive

Ibrahim Hamidi
A supporters of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a Brazilian flag after a closing campaign rally, one day before the general election, in Sao Paulo, on 3 October, 2026. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
Politics

Who will be Brazil’s next president?

04, Oct 2026

Neither Lula nor Bolsonaro won an outright majority, so the two men will face off on 25 October in an election that could serve as a bellwether of Donald Trump's influence in Latin America

The Economist
Opinion

Russia boosts its defence budget with an eye on Europe

02, Oct 2026

Putin seems to have concluded that to secure a decisive victory in Ukraine, he needs to go after the countries in Europe that are supporting Kyiv

Con Coughlin
A digital billboard displays fuel prices at a petrol station in Berlin on 2 October 2026. John MACDOUGALL / AFP
Business & Economy

G7 agrees to release 100 million barrels of reserve diesel

03, Oct 2026

Analysts believe that Trump is hoping to lower domestic fuel prices before the November midterm elections, which could see Democrats win a majority of seats in Congress

Alexandra Sharp
A US Navy sailor directs a Eurocopter AS-332 Super Puma helicopter on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which is supporting US military operations in the war with Iran on 16 August 2026. US. Navy/REUTERS
Politics

US troops leave Iraq, but double down in the region

30, Sep 2026

Why 30 September should be understood less as a US exit from the Middle East than as the end of a particular model of American intervention

Caroline Rose

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