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Maya Diab: The Lebanese Star Who Joined Humanitarian Volunteers After the Beirut Blast
Culture & Social Affairs

Maya Diab: The Lebanese Star Who Joined Humanitarian Volunteers After the Beirut Blast

Early Life and Education Maya Diab was born on November 12, 1980 in Achrafieh, one of the…

Ali El Shamy 14 August , 2020
Russia’s Coronavirus Vaccine: Too Good to Be True?
Science & Technology

Russia’s Coronavirus Vaccine: Too Good to Be True?

The race for a coronavirus vaccine has taken an unexpected turn this week. Ever since this race began, Oxford University of the UK seemed poised to…

Majalla 14 August , 2020
The Struggle Over the Mediterranean 
Politics

The Struggle Over the Mediterranean 

Last week Egypt and Greece signed a maritime border agreement that sets the sea boundary between the two countries and demarcates an exclusive…

Yasmine El Geressi 14 August , 2020
Lebanon Needs a Radical Political Overhaul 
Politics

Lebanon Needs a Radical Political Overhaul 

10 days after a catastrophic explosion of combustible ammonium nitrate that destructed the capital city, turmoil continues to engulf the nation of…

Majalla 14 August , 2020
Joe Biden Finds His Running Mate 
Politics

Joe Biden Finds His Running Mate 

Joe Biden’s long search for a partner to complete the Democratic presidential ticket has finally concluded, settling on the candidate long considered…

Joseph Braude 14 August , 2020
WeChat is a lifeline for the Chinese diaspora. What happens now that Trump banned it?
Science & Technology

WeChat is a lifeline for the Chinese diaspora. What happens now that Trump banned it?

Cindy Wang’s whole life is on WeChat. Through the Chinese everything app, the 24-year-old shops for clothing and sends photos and audio…

Suhauna Hussain and Taylor Avery 13 August , 2020
Kamala Harris is Now the Democratic Mainstream
Politics

Kamala Harris is Now the Democratic Mainstream

On the one hand, Joe Biden — who is running as the candidate who promises to make the presidency boring again — made the most obvious — that is,…

Jonathan Bernstein 13 August , 2020
Scientists Ask: Without Trial Data, How Can We Trust Russia's COVID Vaccine?
Science & Technology

Scientists Ask: Without Trial Data, How Can We Trust Russia's COVID Vaccine?

An announcement by Russia on Tuesday that it will approve a COVID-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing prompted alarm among global…

Majalla 11 August , 2020

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A helicopter drops water on smoldering buildings in the city's port, destroyed by an explosion a day earlier, on August 5, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. (Getty)

August 9

A man walks by an overturned car and destroyed buildings on August 4, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. (Getty)

August 9

People wait to receive treatment outside a hospital following the explosion in Beirut., Lebanon. (Getty)

August 9

People at the scene of the blast in the port of Beirut, Lebanon. (Getty)

August 9

A woman stands on her porch after Tropical Storm Isaias affected the area in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. (Getty)

August 9

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Lebanon’s Power Struggle – Why a Failing State Can’t Get the Lights On
Politics

Lebanon’s Power Struggle – Why a Failing State Can’t Get the Lights On

Surveying Beirut’s shattered streets last week, in the aftermath of a massive explosion at the port that killed at least 158 people, French President…

Majalla 11 August , 2020
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Barbara Gibson
Politics

China’s Victory Day Parade: symbolic or seismic?

05 September 2025

Beijing would like the week to mark a historic turning point in which a unipolar world finally gave way to multipolarity. To others, it was just tub-thumping bravura. In reality, it was a bit of both.

Shirley Ze Yu
Business & Economy

Syria’s post-Assad energy quandary

01 September 2025

The country now sits at an energy crossroads: will its recovery be anchored in oil and gas, or will it seize the chance to lean into renewables and build something more resilient?

Jesse Marks
Pep Boatella
Politics

Disarming Hezbollah: will Lebanon seize or squander its opportunity?

02 September 2025

After Israel dealt Iran and its regional axis a string of crippling blows last year, Lebanon now finds itself better-positioned to reclaim its eroded state sovereignty. Will it grab the chance?

Frederic C. Hof
Al-Ma'arri in his residence as depicted in a 1965 book Wikipedia Commons
Culture & Social Affairs

Al-Ma’arri’s satirical poetry reimagined for today's readers

02 September 2025

Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'

Ali Almuqri
Local residents walk past a house destroyed by an earthquake that killed nearly 1,000 people and devastated villages in eastern Afghanistan, on September 1, 2025. AFP
Politics

For Afghan quake victims, sympathy came faster than help

04 September 2025

An earthquake in Afghanistan earlier this week levelled entire villages and left people trapped under rubble for days, but in the shadow of the Hindu Kush, saviours were thin on the ground

Kaswar Klasra

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