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Why some Germans want to repatriate their gold from the US Ewan White
Business & Economy

Why some Germans want to repatriate their gold from the US

Based on statistics from 2024, Germany is now the United States’ largest trading partner, with goods worth more than $300bn flowing back and forth…

Toufic Chanbour 04 July , 2025
Aramco's Manifa oil field
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Business & Economy

Saudi Arabia’s refining strategy reflects a deliberate economic recalibration

Saudi Arabia is expanding its crude oil refining capacity to better adapt to the changing global energy market. The Kingdom is not merely responding…

Neil Quilliam 03 July , 2025
Opinion

Will Netanyahu return Trump's favour and agree to Gaza truce?

After the staunch support US President Donald Trump gave to Israel in its military confrontation with Iran, the American leader will be expecting…

Con Coughlin 03 July , 2025
Opinion

Hezbollah arms are not the only thing holding Lebanon back

Portraying Hezbollah’s disarmament and the handover of its weapons to the Lebanese state as the sole obstacle to peace and prosperity is a gross…

Houssam Itani 03 July , 2025
Gaza’s ‘death trap’ aid centres: a real-life Hunger Games Lina Jaradat
Culture & Social Affairs

Gaza’s ‘death trap’ aid centres: a real-life Hunger Games

More than 580 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid since a new Israeli-backed aid distribution system began operating in the Gaza Strip on…

Hala Al-Naji 03 July , 2025
People gather to celebrate after Lebanese parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun as the new president, on January 9, 2025, in Al-Aaishiyah, Lebanon. Ramiz Dallah/Getty
Politics

Lebanon’s second chance at statehood

Lebanon’s first experiment with statehood began in 1943 with its independence from France. That arrangement lasted about 25 years before the state…

Paul Salem 03 July , 2025
A Syrian rebel fighter holds a container of pills of Captagon discovered at a drug manufacturing facility in the city of Douma on the eastern outskirts of Damascus on December 12, 2024. Bakr ALKASEM / AFP
Politics

Wasim al-Assad’s arrest is a big win for Syria's war on crime

In the wake of the Assad regime's fall in early December 2024, the new interim government’s security and police forces were busier than ever,…

Caroline Rose 03 July , 2025
Israel turns Gaza aid into a life-or-death proposition
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Israel turns Gaza aid into a life-or-death proposition

Fares Garabet 02 July , 2025
Opinion

Iran’s triumphalism doesn’t square with reality

US President Donald Trump did it. Just 12 days after Israel attacked Iran, triggering a wave of attacks and missile barrages between the two sworn…

Alia Mansour 02 July , 2025
Donald Trump's penchant for pursuing the news he wants, rather than the information his intelligence services give him, echoes past White House mistakes, not least over Iraq. Sara Padovan
Politics

Trump’s selective intelligence on Iran echoes past missteps

The Trump administration’s claims that Iran’s nuclear programme was “obliterated” by US bunker buster bombs in June have been met with a mixed…

Christopher Phillips 02 July , 2025
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Iran’s waning influence

27 June 2025

Our July issue features in-depth articles and expert analyses exploring the future of Iran's influence and the long-term reverberations for the region

Al Majalla - London
Lina Jaradat
Culture & Social Affairs

Gaza’s ‘death trap’ aid centres: a real-life Hunger Games

02 July 2025

Israel's commandeering of aid distribution in Gaza forces starving Palestinians to run the gauntlet at centres with biometric monitoring systems, armed security, and life-or-death hazards

Hala Al-Naji
People gather to celebrate after Lebanese parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun as the new president, on January 9, 2025, in Al-Aaishiyah, Lebanon. Ramiz Dallah/Getty
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Lebanon’s second chance at statehood

02 July 2025

The crippling of Hezbollah's dominance and the Assad regime's fall in Syria have created a narrow but historic opening for the Lebanese people

Paul Salem
Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

Oman is quietly redefining its development model

29 June 2025

It is no longer the Gulf's quiet outlier but a country quietly setting a new standard for sustainable economic development in the region

Neil Quilliam
Lina Jaradat
Politics

How the Middle East can capitalise on Iran’s regional setback

02 July 2025

The US security umbrella will focus on Iran's direct threats, but regional states should deal with Tehran's residual proxy groups in the region

James Jeffrey

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