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Palestinian citizens of Israel protest near the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv, against the closure of the Rafah crossing and the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip on July 31, 2025. Jack GUEZ / AFP
Politics

What is behind Egypt’s escalating criticism of Israel?

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s recent description of the war in Gaza as “systematic genocide” might have surprised some people. The…

Amr Emam 25 August , 2025
A destroyed Lebanese bank after it was set on fire by protesters, Tripoli, June 12, 2020. AFP
Business & Economy

Investment in Lebanon: capital inflows depend on reforms

These are big moments for Lebanon. Earlier this month, the cabinet voted to disarm armed groups like Hezbollah by the end of 2025, and the national…

Souraya Chahine 25 August , 2025
'Greater Israel' threatens to stain the region
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'Greater Israel' threatens to stain the region

Fares Garabet 25 August , 2025
Opinion

Netanyahu blocks Trump's path to a Nobel Prize

By now it is no secret that US President Donald Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize. To this end, he has consistently cast himself as a peacemaker by…

Wahid Abdel Maguid 24 August , 2025
Lebanese abstract artist Saloua Choucair and one of her works
Culture & Social Affairs

Saloua Raouda Choucair: a century of abstraction

In the lap of a pine-covered mountain, just below the town of Ras el-Metn in Mount Lebanon, lies the museum of the late Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda…

Mohamed abi Samra 24 August , 2025
Moazzam Begg, Senior Director at CAGE International, addresses pro-Palestinian activists gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice on July 4, 2025, in London. Mark Kerrison / Getty
Profiles

Moazzam Begg: the British activist protesting genocide

When police in London arrested over 460 people during a recent pro-Palestine gathering in Parliament Square, those detained included Moazzam Begg, 57…

Con Coughlin 24 August , 2025
Fghters from Bedouin tribes in western Sweida city on July 19, 2025. AFP
Politics

Sweida is a test case for competing visions for Syria

The recent outbreak of violence in Syria’s southern Sweida province—the birthplace of Syria’s revolution and a Druze-majority region that has managed…

Caroline Rose 24 August , 2025
New details emerge on Kamal Jumblatt's assassination Al Majalla
Documents & Memoirs

New details emerge on Kamal Jumblatt's assassination

The story of the Syrian army’s entry into Lebanon remains a subject of controversy, even two decades after it withdrew in 2005. It is significant…

Ibrahim Hamidi 23 August , 2025
Opinion

Why some wars are quickly resolved and others left to linger

Two distinct approaches to conflict management can be observed in today's modern conflicts, marking a drastic departure from the principles the…

Houssam Itani 23 August , 2025
An M23 soldier holds damaged weapons in the Stade de l’Unité (Unity Stadium) in Goma, DRC on May 13, 2025. Jospin Mwisha / AFP
Business & Economy

Tariffs and minerals: when trade and resource wars collide

A new 21st-century geo-economic battle is heating up over rare earths, with China using its advantage in trade talks with the United States and the…

Mohamed Sharki 23 August , 2025
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Barbara Gibson
Politics

China’s Victory Day Parade: symbolic or seismic?

05 September 2025

Beijing would like the week to mark a historic turning point in which a unipolar world finally gave way to multipolarity. To others, it was just tub-thumping bravura. In reality, it was a bit of both.

Shirley Ze Yu
Business & Economy

Syria’s post-Assad energy quandary

01 September 2025

The country now sits at an energy crossroads: will its recovery be anchored in oil and gas, or will it seize the chance to lean into renewables and build something more resilient?

Jesse Marks
Pep Boatella
Politics

Disarming Hezbollah: will Lebanon seize or squander its opportunity?

02 September 2025

After Israel dealt Iran and its regional axis a string of crippling blows last year, Lebanon now finds itself better-positioned to reclaim its eroded state sovereignty. Will it grab the chance?

Frederic C. Hof
Al-Ma'arri in his residence as depicted in a 1965 book Wikipedia Commons
Culture & Social Affairs

Al-Ma’arri’s satirical poetry reimagined for today's readers

02 September 2025

Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'

Ali Almuqri
Local residents walk past a house destroyed by an earthquake that killed nearly 1,000 people and devastated villages in eastern Afghanistan, on September 1, 2025. AFP
Politics

For Afghan quake victims, sympathy came faster than help

04 September 2025

An earthquake in Afghanistan earlier this week levelled entire villages and left people trapped under rubble for days, but in the shadow of the Hindu Kush, saviours were thin on the ground

Kaswar Klasra

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