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Maryam Rajavi (L), President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), listening to Gen. Jack Keane, former Vice Chief Staff of the United States Army, during the Trans-Atlantic Summit on Iran Policy, held online on September 18, 2020, in Ashraf -3, Albania. (Getty)
Politics

Testimony to Modus Operandi of Iran’s Intelligence in Europe

An exiled Iranian opposition council released a letter sent by a former operative of the Iranian regime’s intelligence ministry to the United Nations…

Majalla 26 February , 2021
An Egyptian employee puts copies of "One Thousand and One Nights," known in English as "Arabian Nights," on a shelf at a bookstore in Cairo on May 5, 2010. (Getty)
Culture & Social Affairs

Love … Actually

February might be the official month of love. However, in our Arabic and Egyptian intangible heritage, love is celebrated all year through the…

Amira el Noshokaty 26 February , 2021
Mohammed Bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's crown prince, left, is greeted by Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, right, as Ram Nath Kovind, India's president, applauds during a ceremonial reception at the presidential palace in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. (Getty)
Politics

India-Saudi Security Ties Getting Stronger

India and Saudi Arabia have long enjoyed cordial relations, primarily driven by India’s energy security requirements. But the bilateral partnership…

Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan 26 February , 2021
A Palestinian boy carries a photo of Tawfiq Zaher. (Supplied)
Politics

Palestinian Community in Israel – A Different Fight for Survival

Tawfiq Zaher, a Nazareth artist, went to pick up his granddaughter from nursery as he used to do every afternoon. On their way home, on a main road,…

Amal Shahada 26 February , 2021
Sudan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mariam Al Mahdi
Politics

Mariam Al Mahdi: Revolutionary ‘Kandake’ as Sudan’s Top Diplomat

Mariam Al Mahdi is only the second woman to be appointed as Foreign Minister in Sudan’s history. A doctor and a politician, she represents the…

Majalla 26 February , 2021
A lab technician uses a single channel pipette dropper to test material during Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test processing at a laboratory in the Dunkeld suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (Getty)
Science & Technology

A System Failure

Shared transnational challenges are supposed to bring the world together. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, has done the opposite, exposing the…

Ashish Jha 26 February , 2021
Nanoparticles in blood vessel, computer illustration. (Getty)
Science & Technology

Nanomaterials in Food

Nanotechnology is spurring a new industrial revolution. The process of engineering materials on an incredibly small scale (a human hair is about 80…

Kristin Toussaint 26 February , 2021
 U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, right, delivers remarks beside U.S. President Joe Biden, to Department of Defense personnel at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on Feb. 10, 2021.
Politics

Biden’s Foreign Policy Success Will Depend on How America Rebuilds at Home

Earlier this month President Joe Biden went to the State Department to pump up a demoralized foreign service corps, and to tell the world: “America…

Trudy Rubin 23 February , 2021
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Trump Triumphs, Democracy Defeated

Majalla 19 February , 2021
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps launches missiles during a military drill in an unknown location in central Iran on Jan. 15, 2021. (TNS)
Politics

Iran's Proxies Pounce as Biden Tries to Negotiate

Since President Joe Biden took office, Iran’s regional proxies have been busy. This month alone, Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed credit for a drone…

Eli Lake 21 February , 2021
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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
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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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