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People ride in an old electric tram in Alexandria, Egypt, on 3 August 2017. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Culture & Social Affairs

Alexandria bids farewell to its historic tram

For its people, Alexandria is not merely a city; it is a state of being in which history intersects with the present, creating something akin to an…

Yasmin Abdallah 09 January , 2026
Opinion

Can a "coalition of the willing" win Europe favour with Trump?

At a time when tensions between Europe and the US are at an all-time high, the offer by leading European powers such as the UK and France to provide…

Con Coughlin 08 January , 2026
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner deliver remarks upon the signing of the declaration on deploying post-ceasefire force in Ukraine during the Coalition of the Willing summit in Paris on 6 January 2026. LUDOVIC MARIN /AFP
Politics

Israel-Syria security talks make headway in Paris

Contacts regarding a potential security agreement between Israel and Syria were renewed this week following several prior rounds of talks…

Michael Harari 08 January , 2026
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Politics

Two mistakes that precipitated Zubaidi's downfall

The leader of the secessionist Southern Transitional Council (STC) has fled to the United Arab Emirates via Somaliland after skipping planned peace…

Al Majalla - London 08 January , 2026
Russia could feel the economic screws tighten in 2026 Al Majalla
Business & Economy

Russia could feel the economic screws tighten in 2026

At the very end of his press conference in Florida, shortly after the successful US exfiltration of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on 3 January,…

Nazareth Seferian 08 January , 2026
Opinion

“Shopping Lists”: from Greenland to Yemen

Officials in President Donald Trump’s administration step before television cameras and speak as though reading from a shopping list: Cuba is bad…

Houssam Itani 07 January , 2026
Operation Absolute Abduction
Cartoons

Operation Absolute Abduction

Fares Garabet 07 January , 2026
Former President George W. Bush walks past President Donald Trump during the state funeral for President George H.W. Bush, at the National Cathedral, on 5 December 2018, in Washington, DC. ALEX BRANDON / AFP
Politics

Donald Trump is channelling George W. Bush

In the middle of December 2003, a Newsweek colleague and I got in a car in Baghdad and headed west. After many weeks of covering the tumultuous US…

Christian Caryl 07 January , 2026
5 unanswered questions about Trump’s Venezuela plan Al Majalla
Politics

5 unanswered questions about Trump’s Venezuela plan

After the White House’s audacious mission to snatch Nicolás Maduro and his wife from Caracas, there are more questions than answers about Venezuela’s…

Ravi Agrawal 07 January , 2026
Putin foreshadowed the Ukraine war in 2008 meeting with Bush Al Majalla
Documents & Memoirs

Putin foreshadowed the Ukraine war in 2008 meeting with Bush

Recently declassified meeting minutes between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President George W. Bush show how the Russian leader…

Samer Elias 07 January , 2026
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Pep Boatella
Politics

Al-Jawf: the key to defeating the Houthis

05, Nov 2026

The battle for this strategically important and resource-rich province tests the Yemeni army's ability to tilt the military balance in its favour

Al Majalla - London
Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al-Saud, Pakistan's army chief General Syed Asim Munir, and Turkey's intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin in Tehran on 26 October 2026. IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP
Politics

Pakistan’s balancing act in a fragmenting world

07, Nov 2026

Staying friends with the Turks, Chinese, Russians, Americans, Europeans, Iranians and Saudis simultaneously is a big ask for Islamabad's diplomats, but somehow they are managing it

Kaswar Klasra
Politics

Can the Democrats prevent a new round of war with Iran?

05, Nov 2026

Despite the war's unpopularity, Trump seems determined to press on until he can claim a decisive victory, whether by diplomacy, force, or a combination of the two

Aqeel Abbas
Eduardo Ramon
Profiles

Abdul El-Sayed: the progressive Michigander who beat the pro-Israel lobby

07, Aug 2026

The Egyptian-American epidemiologist became the first Muslim senator in US history, despite $70mn spent to defeat him in the Democratic primary

Tarek Rashed
French author Philippe Djianada looks out from a window at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, following his win of the French Goncourt literary prize for his novel "The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel," on 3 November 2026. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Culture & Social Affairs

A novel about a murder in Paris wins the 2026 Goncourt

06, Nov 2026

French novelist Philippe Jaenada's novel 'The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel' wins big, while the Prix Renaudot goes to François-Henri Désérable for his novel about an unlikely wine expert

Najeeb Mubarak

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