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Opinion

Trump, Xi cool China-US trade tensions...for now

The positive outcome of US President Donald Trump’s latest summit with Xi Jinping, his Chinese opposite number, has raised the prospect of a…

Con Coughlin 30 October , 2025
Opinion

As Syria reclaims its voice, the world listens intently

On 7 December last year, Bahrain hosted its customary round of the Manama Dialogue. On stage, speeches centred on Gulf security, the Red Sea, and…

Ibrahim Hamidi 03 November , 2025
Israeli strikes leave Gaza ceasefire in tatters
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Israeli strikes leave Gaza ceasefire in tatters

Fares Garabet 30 October , 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio stands with Rwanda's FM Olivier Nduhungirehe and Democratic Republic of Congo's FM Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, after signing a peace agreement in Washington on June 27, 2025. AP / Mark Schiefelbein
Politics

The flaw in America's Africa policy

On 20 October, US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff announced that Donald Trump’s administration was working to broker talks between…

Sergey Eledinov 30 October , 2025
Governor of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, delivers his speech at the opening of the ninth edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII), in Riyadh, 28 October 2025. Reuters
Business & Economy

Investing in people and AI: Saudi Arabia’s vision for a new Middle East

The Riyadh-based Future Investment Initiative (FII) has evolved beyond its role as a political and economic forum to become a geo-economic platform…

Omar Harkous 29 October , 2025
Opinion

Revolutions on the left and right target a decrepit centre

Amid a haze of declarations, the clamour of press conferences, the thunder of artillery, and the whir of drones, two opposing revolutions are…

Houssam Itani 29 October , 2025

Hurricane Melissa, Sikh warriors and more from the world

Narinder NANU / AFP
Narinder NANU / AFP

Nihang Sikh warriors ride on horses as they display their skills on the occasion of Fateh Divas in Amritsar on 22 October 2025.

REUTERS/Octavio Jones
REUTERS/Octavio Jones

A woman and a child stand along the Kingston waterfront as Hurricane Melissa approaches, in Kingston, Jamaica, on 27 October 2025.

Thibaud MORITZ / AFP
Thibaud MORITZ / AFP

A fireworks show orchestrated by artist Cai Guo-Qiang with AI assistance, at the Centre Pompidou (Beaubourg) to mark its closing for a five-year renovation project, in Paris on 22 October 2025.

FETHI BELAID / AFP
FETHI BELAID / AFP

Cows eat pomegranates at a farm in the town of Tebourba, about 30 kilometres west of Tunis, on 23 October 2025.

REUTERS/Angelina Katsanis
REUTERS/Angelina Katsanis

Voters cast their ballots at a polling station on the first day of early voting for the mayoral election in Brooklyn, New York City, US, on 25 October 2025.

HUSSEIN FALEH / AFP
HUSSEIN FALEH / AFP

An Iraqi firefighter looks on as smoke and fire billow at the Zubair oil field in southern Iraq on 26 October 2025.

REUTERS/Quetzalli Nicte-Ha
REUTERS/Quetzalli Nicte-Ha

A child with a painted face looks on as revellers gather to witness the annual Catrinas Day parade, ahead of the Day of the Dead, in Mexico City on October 26, 2025.

REUTERS/Bhawika Chhabra
REUTERS/Bhawika Chhabra

A Hindu woman with "sindhur", or vermilion powder, on her forehead stands in water as she worships the Sun god at the bank of the river Yamuna during the Hindu religious festival of Chhath Puja in Noida, India, on 28 October 2025.

Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP
Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP

This photograph shows trees with autumnal foliage reflected in the Bethmale lake in the Pyrenees Mountains, Bethmale, southwestern France, on 24 October 2025.

Genya SAVILOV / AFP
Genya SAVILOV / AFP

Ukrainian firefighters extinguish a fire at the site of a food warehouse following a Russian missile strike in Kyiv early on 25 October 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Opinion

From Nixon and Mao to Trump and Xi

In February 1972, Richard Nixon stepped into the heart of Communist China at a time when hostility between the two countries was at its height. The…

Ibrahim Hamidi 29 October , 2025
Saad AlBazei brings nuance to Orientalism Amira Tanany
Culture & Social Affairs

Saad AlBazei brings nuance to Orientalism

A Saudi academic is offering a new and nuanced perspective on Orientalism, moving beyond the traditional binary of outright hostility or naïve…

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush 29 October , 2025
What's behind Trump's Morocco-Algeria peace push?
Politics

What's behind Trump's Morocco-Algeria peace push?

When it comes to ending wars and long-running conflicts around the world, the Trump administration is not without its ambitions. In North Africa,…

Rabia Abdul Salam 29 October , 2025
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Business & Economy

The tiny waterway that put the global economy into a chokehold

18 April 2026

Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players

Steve Hewitt
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Glimpses of Bush's Iraq debacle appear in Trump's Iran war

15 April 2026

The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.

Robert Ford
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Business & Economy

The US plan to turn Syria into an oil transit hub

16 April 2026

Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.

Al Majalla - London
An Iranian woman flashes the V-sign as she takes part in a rally to pay tribute to women killed during war, in Tehran on 17 April 2026. AFP
Politics

Has Iran's ideology actually hardened?

16 April 2026

The change in tone and presentation of policy isn't a fundamental redirection, but rather the consolidation of a system under pressure

Alex Vatanka
Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed holds two awards during the opening ceremony of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, late on 14 September 2010. AMR AHMAD / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Daoud Abdel Sayed and the cinema of quiet rebellion

16 April 2026

Throughout his career, the renowned Egyptian film director challenged authority, rejected easy answers, and remained rooted in lived experience

Hazem Massoud

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