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US Commander in Iraq General David Petraeus speaks to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, 8 April 2008. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Politics

David Petraeus talks Trump, Gaza 'gated' areas and challenges 'privatisation' of war

Step into the mind of one of America’s most influential military and intelligence figures as retired General and former CIA Director David Petraeus…

Ahmed Maher 28 October , 2025
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Central banks turn back to gold as uncertainty mounts

For the first time in nearly three decades, central banks’ combined gold reserves now exceed their US Treasury holdings—a symbolic shift reflecting…

Al Majalla - London 28 October , 2025
Opinion

If Lebanon doesn't move on Hezbollah arms, it will be left behind

The fall of the Assad regime wasn't just a cataclysmic event for Syria—it shook the entire region, fundamentally changing its landscape for the…

Alia Mansour 28 October , 2025
Algeria’s nuclear energy ambitions still stalled despite potential Al Majalla
Business & Economy

Algeria’s nuclear energy ambitions still stalled despite potential

With enough uranium to power two huge nuclear power plants for 60 years, two small reactors already in operation, and a research centre generating…

Rabia Abdul Salam 28 October , 2025
People walk amid the destruction in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on October 11, 2025, a day after a ceasefire took effect. AFP
Politics

Gaza's partition: Palestinian peril dressed up as pragmatism

When the guns fell silent in Gaza on 10 October, the world breathed a sigh of relief. After two years of relentless warfare, the Trump administration…

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 28 October , 2025
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Politics

Japan quietly prepares itself amid China's rise

This was not my first visit to Japan. Every time I've been here over the past two decades, the country seems different. I feel as if I am stepping…

Ibrahim Hamidi 27 October , 2025
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Culture & Social Affairs

A new look at literary icon Jorge Luis Borges' life

Writing the biography of the late Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is a demanding and perilous undertaking. One of the greatest authors of the 20th…

Najeeb Mubarak 27 October , 2025
Opinion

Assad’s legacy of dispossession still felt in post-war Syria

Unresolved housing, land, and property (HLP) violations are fuelling a wave of local conflicts across Syria, threatening to derail an already fragile…

Haid Haid 27 October , 2025
Trump's Asia tour
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Trump's Asia tour

Fares Garabet 27 October , 2025
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Politics

Is the US going to war with Venezuela?

All signs are pointing toward a major potential military escalation between the US and Venezuela. Not only has the US military carried out multiple…

Tarek Rashed 26 October , 2025
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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
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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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