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Mohab Mamish: Long-time Navy Commander and Former Chief of Suez Canal
Politics

Mohab Mamish: Long-time Navy Commander and Former Chief of Suez Canal

The whole world was calculating global trade losses that amounted to billions of dollars due to a blocked Suez Canal late in March. Just after the…

Majalla 09 April , 2021
A Palestinian artist paints a mural depicting Palestinian elections, in Gaza City on March 24, 2021. (Getty Images)
Politics

Young Palestinians Express Little Faith in First Elections They Have Known

Facing the first elections they have ever been able to vote in, young Palestinians are demanding reforms in the parliamentary and presidential polls…

Zainah El-Haroun and Nidal al-Mughrabi 05 April , 2021

World in Photos

World in Photos

A specially designed vehicle transports the mummy of King Ramesses III in a convoy from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization during The Pharaohs' Golden Parade on April 03, 2021 in Cairo, Egypt.(Getty)

World in Photos

Specially designed vehicles transport 22 mummies in a convoy from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, during the Pharaohs' Golden Parade in Cairo, Egypt on April 03, 2021.(Reuters)

World in Photos

People wearing ancient Egyptian costumes take part in the ceremony as specially designed vehicles transport 22 mummies in a convoy from the Egyptian Museum to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, during the Pharaohs' Golden Parade in Cairo, Egypt on April 03, 2021. (Getty)

World in Photos

A mummy is seen in a video screened during a ceremony of a transfer of Royal mummies from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, in Cairo, Egypt April 3, 2021. (Reuters)

World in Photos

A mummy is seen in a video screened during a ceremony of a transfer of Royal mummies from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, in Cairo, Egypt April 3, 2021.(Reuters)

World in Photos

Artists perform near piramids in a video screened at a ceremony of a transfer of Royal mummies from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, in Cairo, Egypt April 3, 2021.(Reuters)

Politics

Half Measures Are No Longer Valid

When the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced its initiative to bring about a ceasefire and put an end to Yemen crisis, the Houthis not only…

Alia Mansour 03 April , 2021
27th February 1939: King Farouk of Egypt (1920 - 1965), makes a close examination of a range-finder during exercises of the Egyptian army artillery. (Getty Images)

American Book: King Farouk Torn Between Churchill and Hitler

In 1942, during World War II, Germany’s Adolf Hitler's Nazi forces, in alliance with Italy’s Fascist leader, Benito Mussolini, already in control of…

Mohammad Ali Salih - Washington 03 April , 2021
“Faces of Rojava” Taken by Rudy Tahlo, Qamishli, March 2021.
Culture & Social Affairs

Anti-racism Initiative by Syrian-Kurdish Artist

Having lasted for more than a decade, the Syrian war has torn the country’s society apart, but individual and group initiatives never ceased to try…

Jiwan Soz - Qamishli 02 April , 2021
This photo taken on March 12, 2021 shows workers at a factory for Xinwangda Electric Vehicle Battery Co. Ltd, which makes lithium batteries for electric cars and other uses, in Nanjing in China's eastern Jiangsu province. (Getty)
Business & Economy

Decoupling Won’t Kill a Green Future

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the debate over U.S. economic “decoupling” from China into stark relief. Former President Donald Trump made the…

Valerie J. Karplus 02 April , 2021
Little boys watch the space suit of a Chinese astronaut (or taikonaut) in Shanghai's Science and Technology Museum on August 5, 2010 in Shanghai, China. (Getty)
Science & Technology

China Is Evolving a Distinct Space Culture

China’s achievements in the arena of outer space continue to make headlines across the globe. The nation’s most recent successes include their Chang…

Molly Silk 02 April , 2021
Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps conduct a military drill with ballistic missiles and unmanned air vehicles at Great Salt Desert, in the middle of the Iranian Plateau, on January 15, 2021 in Iran. (Getty)
Politics

A Deterrent Force Still Absent

The standoff between the United States and Iran has become a routine one. However, the present American appeasement of the rulers of Tehran shows the…

Jassem Mohamed – Bonn 02 April , 2021
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) meets with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi (R), in the capital Tehran, on March 27, 2021. (Getty)
Politics

What’s in the China-Iran Strategic Cooperation Agreement?

On March 27, Iran and China signed a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement addressing economic issues amid crippling U.S. sanctions on Iran, state…

Shannon Tiezzi 02 April , 2021
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Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Why a cornered Iran is also a problem for China

02 May 2026

Even when appeals to open the Hormuz Strait come from a close ally like Beijing, they fall on deaf ears in Tehran. But hope is not yet lost.

Xiaotong Yang
Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

Global airfares soar amid ongoing US-Iran turmoil

04 May 2026

Airspace closures, rising fuel costs, shifting flight maps and delayed aircraft deliveries have repriced flights around the world, with some travel routes hit worse than others

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
A man holds a flag featuring the late leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei and the new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, at a rally in Tehran on 29 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

Real Iran splits and the myth of division

04 May 2026

The argument is over the price and presentation, not the basic instinct to preserve the system

Alex Vatanka
A Lebanese guard stands in front of  Magen Abraham, the last Jewish synagogue in Lebanon at Wadi Abou Jmil, Beirut's former Jewish neighbourhood, in the war-devastated city centre. JOSEPH BARRAK / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

New book recalls Beirut’s once-vibrant Jewish quarter

01 May 2026

Veteran Lebanese journalist Nada Abdelsamad transports readers back to the time when Beirut's Jewish quarter, known at the time as Wadi al-Yahud, was thriving

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush
Turkish fighter jets fly over a warship in Kyrenia, in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. AFP
Politics

How the Iran war changed Türkiye’s security calculus

05 May 2026

Ankara's national security priority is no longer Kurds or Gülenists, but Israel. Likewise, in Tel Aviv, Türkiye is increasingly seen as a future Israeli adversary. Both are preparing accordingly

Rustum Mahmud

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