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-	Anti-government protesters chant slogans during a demonstration in the centre of Lebanon's impoverished northern port city of Tripoli on January 31, 2021. (Getty Images)
Culture & Social Affairs

Tripoli Protests and the Collapse of Lebanon

Protests turned into violent riots last week in Lebanon’s Tripoli when clashes erupted between security forces and protesters, leading to more than…

Hanin Ghaddar 06 February , 2021
Nancy Pelosi: The Most Powerful Female Politician in US History
Politics

Nancy Pelosi: The Most Powerful Female Politician in US History

Nancy Pelosi is the 52nd Speaker of the House of Representatives, having made history in 2007 when she was elected the first woman to serve as…

Majalla 31 January , 2021
Activists of Jamiat Ulema-e Islam Nazryate party shout as they celebrate the signing agreement between the US and the Taliban during a rally in Quetta on March 1, 2020. (Getty)
Politics

The Myth of a Responsible Withdrawal From Afghanistan

President Joe Biden is now the fourth American leader to oversee the U.S. war in Afghanistan. He inherits a fragile peace process that members of his…

Laurel Miller 31 January , 2021
An Iranian cleric walks past a mural on the wall of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran. (Getty)
Politics

The Case Against the Iran Deal

Proponents of the Iran nuclear agreement are sounding the alarm. In 2018, the United States withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and…

Michael Oren and Yossi Klein Halevi 31 January , 2021
Politics

The Battle of Information

Targeted media campaigns are no longer a regional issue, but a pressing global one. A newspaper's mission has long been to search for the truth,…

Elie Fawaz 31 January , 2021
Workers set up a mobile Huoyan (Fire Eye) laboratory, which is built with air-inflated structures and operated by BGI Genomics, for the nucleic acid testing at Hebei Gymnasium on January 8, 2021 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province of China. (By Getty)
Science & Technology

Chinese Gene Firm Providing Worldwide COVID Tests Worked with PLA

BGI Group, the world's largest genomics company, has worked with China's military on research that ranges from mass testing for respiratory pathogens…

Kirsty Needham 30 January , 2021
How War Monuments Keep History Lessons Alive
Culture & Social Affairs

How War Monuments Keep History Lessons Alive

“Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World II Tell Us About our History and Ourselves” by Keith Lowe; William Collins A pedestal is a…

Jacqueline Cutler 29 January , 2021
Political scientist Francis Fukuyama.
Science & Technology

Fukuyama: Polarization Impedes Efforts to Thwart Covid-19

In an interview with Foreign Policy, the famed political scientist Francis Fukuyama revisits his view of liberal democracy as the end of ideological…

Majalla 29 January , 2021
Why Egypt's Parliament is Grabbing the Headlines
Politics

Why Egypt's Parliament is Grabbing the Headlines

After convening for just two weeks, Egypt's House of Representatives (lower chamber of Parliament) has been grabbing the headlines for good and bad…

Amr Emam 29 January , 2021
Mnatskan Muradyan, the grandson of Martiros Muradyan, works in a field outside the village of Pokr Vedi, south of Yerevan, near the Ararat mountain, seen in background, in Armenia on February 24, 2015 shows (Getty)
Business & Economy

Saudi-Armenian Relations: Lack of Diplomatic Ties Hinders Bilateral Cooperation

Arab-Armenian relations have been lukewarm throughout history. In the early quarter of the 16th century, both the Arab World and Armenia were invaded…

Motasem Al Felou 29 January , 2021
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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, Syria, December 22, 2024.
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Politics

Ahmed Sharaa on Syria's 'zero-problems' strategy

26 August 2025

Syria's president says the Abraham Accords aren't the right fit for Damascus. Instead, he hopes to reinstate the 1974 disengagement agreement with Israel or something similar

Ibrahim Hamidi
People mourn for Palestinian journalists Moaz Abu Taha and Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters contractor, who were killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in Gaza on August 25, 2025, along with 15 others. AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

'Genocide didn't unfold in Gaza; it was the intent all along'

25 August 2025

A new book by Lebanese jurist Mazen Shindab provides an invaluable legal resource on the genocide in Gaza, laying bare the flaws of international law and the moral imperative to hold Israel to account

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush
A television station broadcasts US Federal Reserve Chair Chair Jerome Powell speaking in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York on August 23, 2024. ANGELA WEISS / AFP
Business & Economy

Jackson Hole gave hints of the future, but not of certainty

26 August 2025

Top global monetary policy makers grapple with political pressure and fragile labour markets while investors bet on lower borrowing costs, with the next five weeks key for a range of assets

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
Opinion

In Ukraine, Russia reaps gains as Europe's coffers drain

25 August 2025

A recent summit in Alaska between Trump and Putin was a much-needed reality check to those who still see the Ukraine war through rose-coloured glasses

Khaled Kassar
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

25 August 2025

Security is a precondition for prosperity and trade, but there are willing partners and ample possibilities if investors are better protected and the Lebanese banking sector is strengthened.

Souraya Chahine

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