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Destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip on July 17, 2025. Jack Guez/AFP
Politics

A ‘concentration camp’ in Gaza will put Egypt in a tough spot

Israel’s plan to establish a “concentration camp” for 600,000 Palestinians in southern Gaza causes deep concern in Egypt. If implemented, it would…

Amr Emam 21 July , 2025
Opinion

Leaders evoke the glories of the past for the wars of the present

It was interesting to hear that Iranian leaders have begun to take a leaf out of other nations’ book by conjuring national heroes of the past in…

Houssam Itani 21 July , 2025
United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese Yusra Naim
Profiles

Francesca Albanese: UNHRC Special Rapporteur for Palestine

In a sign of the deepening friction between the Trump administration and UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) official Francesca Albanese, US Secretary of…

Con Coughlin 20 July , 2025
One of the world's richest countries, Qatar still has some economic challenges. In part, these hinge on cultural changes. Al Majalla
Business & Economy

Qatar looks ahead to its next economic challenges

The world’s richest country, Qatar is smaller than the US state of Connecticut, yet this 160km peninsula in the Arabian Gulf punches well above its…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 20 July , 2025
US President Donald Trump attending the third US-Africa Summit in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 9, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP
Politics

US-Africa relations: Trump shifts from ‘aid to trade’

Earlier this month, at a summit in Washington, D.C. attended by five heads of state, US President Donald Trump declared a move “from aid to trade”…

Sergey Eledinov 19 July , 2025
Protesters wave Iranian and Hezbollah flags during a rally at Beirut airport on February 15, 2025. Iran's strategy of using militias is now in tatters. AFP
Politics

Two’s a crowd: the strategy of forward defence in the Middle East

The Middle East is in a state of suspended animation, neither plunged into total war nor buoyed by enduring peace. Within this uneasy equilibrium,…

Ross Harrison 19 July , 2025
Bahrain's Finance Minister Sheikh Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa and UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves sign bilateral investment deals in London on 19 June 2025. Gov.uk
Business & Economy

Entering a new phase: UK-Bahrain relations

Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa’s visit to London in June highlights how Bahrain wants to consolidate ties with a post-Brexit UK, while…

Neil Quilliam 18 July , 2025
UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen backs the central government's desire for sovereignty over its territory but says that, in a transition period, this is best done through dialogue and by building trust. Al Majalla/AFP
Politics

UN envoy to Syria: true loyalty to the state cannot be coerced

The United Nations’ Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, has said the country’s central government in Damascus should aim to establish sovereignty…

Ibrahim Hamidi 18 July , 2025
Opinion

Sectarian flare-ups in Syria give Israel an excuse to bomb

The escalating sectarian violence in Syria, which led Israel to bomb key government buildings in Damascus, is by far the most serious challenge posed…

Con Coughlin 18 July , 2025
The Great Colonnade (Decumanus Maximus) at Palmyra, one of six Syrian sites on the UNESCO elite list of world heritage. All of them sustained some level of damage in the 13-year civil war. Omar Haj Kadour/AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

The plundering of Syria's cultural heritage - Part 2

Syria’s most significant archaeological sites, which collectively tell the story of the country’s extraordinary history, have been subjected to an…

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush 18 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
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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