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The US Navy's aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower transits the Strait of Hormuz on November 26, 2023. AFP
Business & Economy

Oil, stock markets so far stable amid Israel-Iran war

On global financial markets, the reaction to escalating tensions in the Middle East and the direct military confrontation between Israel and Iran has…

Sharif Mohammad 20 June , 2025
Opinion

Beyond Fordow

The argument that the war between Iran and Israel comes down to the fate of Fordow is lazy and even misleading. Let’s assume for a moment that US…

Bilal Saab 20 June , 2025
Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, uses a diagram of a bomb to describe Iran's nuclear programme while delivering his address to the 67th United Nations General Assembly meeting on September 27, 2012. DON EMMERT / AFP
Politics

Fact or fear? how Netanyahu ‘securitises’ Iran’s existential threat

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has portrayed Iran as posing an existential threat to his country, invoking a powerful form of political…

Ahmed Maher 19 June , 2025
Opinion

Trump's reported approval of Iran strikes could set the region ablaze

The revelation that US President Donald Trump has given his private authorisation for the US military to attack Iran raises the alarming prospect of…

Con Coughlin 19 June , 2025
'Arab in the Corridors of Parliament: My Story and Politics in Israel' by Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

A window into the experience of Palestinian citizens of Israel

A new book by the former Arab Israeli politician Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi raises complex, painful, and enduring questions both for Palestinians, Arabs,…

Mohamed abi Samra 19 June , 2025
A demonstrator holds a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while gathering with others during a rally in solidarity with the government against Israel's attacks on Iran on June 14, 2025. ATTA KENARE / AFP
Politics

Iran is further from regime change than Israel thinks

Israel's unprecedented attack on Iran is hardly surprising. It follows decades of animosity, proxy battles and covert intelligence operations. But…

Houssam Itani 19 June , 2025
What would happen if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz? Michelle Thompson.
Business & Economy

What would happen if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz?

Former Iranian Economy Minister Ehsan Khandouzi has said that tankers and LNG cargoes should only transit the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 19 June , 2025
How Israel pulled off its unprecedented strike on Iran Eduardo Ramon
Politics

How Israel pulled off its unprecedented strike on Iran

In the early hours of 13 June, Israel launched one of the most ambitious and meticulously planned operations in its modern history—an unprecedented…

Michael Horowitz 18 June , 2025
Israel-Iran missile fire drowns out calls for diplomacy
Cartoons

Israel-Iran missile fire drowns out calls for diplomacy

Fares Garabet 18 June , 2025
Activists from a local youth organisation wave Iranian flags and chant anti-Israel slogans during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan, on June 15, 2025.
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Politics

Pakistan sides with Iran, but may only be able to offer words

In a region already teetering on the edge of madness, where every drone strike sounds like the whisper of apocalypse and every televised funeral…

Kaswar Klasra 18 June , 2025
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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
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Is support for Israel becoming toxic at the ballot box? 

11 November 2025

As Americans rethink the moral—and strategic—calculus of US support for Israel, politicians are scrambling to keep pace

Alfred J. Naddaff
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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.

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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
Ewan White
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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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